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Queen Alexandrine |
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Queen Ingrid |
Provenance:
- Queen Désirée of Sweden & Norway; from her husband, King Carl XIV Johan of Sweden & Norway
- Queen Josephine of Sweden & Norway; inherited from her mother-in-law in 1860
- Queen Louise of Denmark; from her grandmother on the occasion of her 1869 marriage to King Frederick VIII of Denmark
- Queen Alexandrine of Denmark; from her mother-in-law on the occasion of her 1898 marriage to King Christian X of Denmark
- Queen Ingrid of Denmark; from her mother-in-law on the occasion of her 1935 marriage to King Frederick IX of Denmark
- Crown Princess Mary of Denmark; inherited by her husband, Crown Prince Frederick of Denmark, from his grandmother in 2000 and given to her on the occasion of their 2004 marriage.
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Princess Benedikte |
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Queen Ingrid |
Other Wearers:
- Princess Benedikte of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg; during a family play as a child
Questions:
- What jeweller created this parure?
- What jeweller did the 1947 alterations on the tiara for Queen Ingrid?
- Are there any pictures of Queen Désirée, Queen Josephine, or Queen Louise wearing this tiara?
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Crown Princess Mary |
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Crown Princess Mary |
- The Royal Order of Sartorial Splendor - Ruby Parure Tiara
- The Court Jeweller - The Danish Rubies
- Bijoux Royaux En Folie - The Danish Ruby Parure Tiara
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Crown Princess Mary |
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Crown Princess Mary |
I love this parure and thought Queen Ingrid's enhancemen was both practical and beautiful. But I feel that it has lost it's airy lightness and beauty with the rubies swamped by the leaves and the whole thing looking heavy and bulky since Mary changed it. The photo's above illustrate the change quite clearly.
ReplyDeleteI realise that the tiara base did not fit easily on Mary's head and it had to be shortened, and that she uses the left over peices as hair ornaments, etc. but could she not just have had a new frame made?
The original setting looked better. Why dismantling such an historical tiara?
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