Duchess of Otrante's Amethyst Tiara

Creation:  This tiara was made by Koch circa 1910.

Materials: amethyst and diamonds set in platinum

Duchess Madeleine

Countess Birgitta

Provenance: 

1. Hedvig Madeleine Fouché d'Otrante, Duchess d’Otrante, née Douglas

 

Other Wearers: 

• Countess Brigitta Fouché d'Otrante née Tham
  

Questions: 

• Who currently owns this tiara?

Photos:  Precious Gems - Jewellery from Eight Centuries

Crown Princess Cecilie of Prussia's Meander Tiara

Creation:  This tiara was made by Koch in 1905.

Materials:  diamonds set in platinum

Crown Princess Cecilie

Princess Kira

Crown Princess Cecilie

Provenance:

1. German Crown Princess Cecilie, Crown Princess of Prussia née Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin; from her husband, Crown Prince Wilhelm, on the occasion of their marriage
2. Princess Kira of Prussia née Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna of Russia; from her mother-in-law on the occasion of her marriage to Prince Louis Ferdinand in 1938
3. Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia; inherited from is mother in 1967
4. Prince Georg Friedrich of Prussia; inherited from is father in 1977

Princess Marie Cecilie

Princess Xenia

Other Wearers:

• Princess Marie Cécile of Prussia; at her 1965 wedding to Duke Friedrich August of Oldenburg
• Princess Xenia of Prussia; at her 1973 wedding to Per-Edvard Lithander 
• Princess Sophie of Prussia née Princess of Isenburg; at the reception of  her 2011 wedding to Prince Georg Friedrich of Prussia
• Princess Viktoria Luise of Prussia; at her 2017 wedding to Hereditary Prince Ferdinand of Leiningen

Princess Sophie

Princess Viktoria Luise

Links:

• The Royal Order of Sartorial Splendor - Prussian Meander Tiara 
• The Court Jeweller - Prussian Meander Tiara 
• Royal Magazin - Prussian Meander Tiara 
• The Royal Watcher - Prussian Meander Tiara
• All Things Royal - The Prussian Meander Tiara
• Tiaras & Crowns - The Prussian Meander Kokoshnik

Princess Benedikte of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg's Fringe Tiara

Princess Benedikte

Princess Benedikte

Creation: This tiara was made by Koch in 1905 and can be worn as a necklace

Materials: diamonds

Provenance:

1. Princess Madeleine of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg née Princess of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg
2. Princess Benedikte of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg née Princess of Denmark; inherited by her husband, Prince Richard, from his grandmother in 1976

Princess Benedikte

Princess Benedikte

Questions:

• Did Princess Margareta of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg ever wear this tiara?

Links:

• The Royal Order of Sartorial Splendor - Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg Fringe Tiara 
• The Court Jeweller - Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg Fringe Tiara 
• The Royal Watcher - Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg Fringe Tiara
• Royal Magazin - Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg Diamond Fringe Tiara
  

Princess Victoria Louise of Hanover's Prussian Diamond Tiara

Creation:  This tiara was made by Koch.

Materials:  diamonds set in platinum

Princess Victoria Luise

Queen Frederika

Provenance:

1. Princess Victoria Louise of Hanover, Duchess of Brunswick; from her father, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Prussia, on the occasion of her 1913 marriage to Prince Ernst August of Hanover, Duke of Brunswick
2. Queen Frederika of Greece; from her mother on the occasion of her 1938 marriage to King Paul I of Greece
3. Queen Sofia of Spain; from her mother on the occasion of her 1962 marriage to King Juan Carlos of Spain

Queen Sofia

Queen Sofia

Other Wearers:

• Infanta Elena of Spain, Duchess of Lugo
• Infanta Cristina of Spain
• Queen Letizia of Spain

Queen Letizia

Queen Letizia

Questions:  

• Will Queen Letizia inherit this tiara breaking the tradition of it passing from mother to daughter?

Infanta Elena

Infanta Christina

Links: 

• Spanish Royals - Prussian Tiara
• The Royal Order of Sartorial Splendor - Prussian Diamond Tiara 
• The Court Jeweller - Tiara Timeline: The Prussian Tiara 
• The Royal Watcher - Prussian Diamond Tiara
• Bijoux Royaux En Folie - The Prussian Tiara
• Tesouras & Tiaras - The Prussian Tiara
• All Things Royal - The Prussian Tiara
• Mis Joyas Reales - Prussian Tiara