Queen Maxima of the Netherlands' Star Tiara

Creation: This tiara is made up of the base of the Pearl Button Tiara and Queen Emma's five, ten-pointed, diamond star brooches that she received as a wedding gift in 1879.

Materials: diamonds

Queen Maxima

Queen Maxima

Provenance:

1. Orange-Nassau Family Foundation; set up by Queen Juliana in the 1960s

Other Wearers:

• Queen Máxima of the Netherlands nee Zorreguieta Cerruti; most notably at her 2002 wedding to King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands
• Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands
• Princess Margriet of the Netherlands
• Princess Catharina Amalia of the Netherlands, Princess of Orange

Queen Maxima

Princess Catharina Amalia

Questions:

• Which jeweler created the diamond stars?
• Which jeweler created the tiara?

Queen Beatrix

Princess Margriet

Links:

• Dutch Royal Jewels - Diamond Stars Tiara
• The Royal Order of Sartorial Splendor - Pearl Button Tiara
• Artemisia's Royal Jewels - Pearl Button Tiara
• The Court Jeweller - The Dutch Star Tiara
• All Things Royal - Maxima's Star Tiara