Josefine
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okay I am trying to set up a webpage about the Swedish royal jewellery, I am not sure that I will make it but I will try
this is the text on the Leuchtenberg Sapphire Parure
This parure was a wedding gift from Napoleon Bonaparte, (the French emperor) to Eugene Beauhmais who were Napoleons adopted son. Eugene married Princess Augusta Amalia of Bavaria.
The name of the parure come from that the married couple was called Duke and Duchess of Leuchtenberg.
Duke and Duchess of Leuchtenberg gave the parure as a wedding gift to their daughter Josephine when she married future King Oscar I of Sweden in 1823.
From that the time Josfina was given the tiara, only Queens has worn it.
This is a neo-classical diamond and sapphire parure. If you count the square-cut sapphire and diamond clusters there are nine of them and they are
set on a base of honeysuckles and leaves. It seems that from the start one could change the sapphires with nine pear pearls.
The parure consists of a tiara, pendant earrings, a necklace, a brooch
and a pair of hair sticks.
Princess Augusta of Bavaria. as a wedding gift January 1806
Queen Josefina of Sweden, neé Leuchtenberg a wedding gift
May 1823
Queen Lovisa of Sweden, neé Princess of the Netherlands
Queen Sofia of Sweden, neé Princess of Nassau
Queen Victoria of Sweden, neé Princess of Baden
Queen Louise of Sweden, neé Princess of Battenberg
Queen Silvia of Sweden, neé Sommerlath started to wear the set as she became Queen after her marriage June 1976
this is the text on the Leuchtenberg Sapphire Parure
This parure was a wedding gift from Napoleon Bonaparte, (the French emperor) to Eugene Beauhmais who were Napoleons adopted son. Eugene married Princess Augusta Amalia of Bavaria.
The name of the parure come from that the married couple was called Duke and Duchess of Leuchtenberg.
Duke and Duchess of Leuchtenberg gave the parure as a wedding gift to their daughter Josephine when she married future King Oscar I of Sweden in 1823.
From that the time Josfina was given the tiara, only Queens has worn it.
This is a neo-classical diamond and sapphire parure. If you count the square-cut sapphire and diamond clusters there are nine of them and they are
set on a base of honeysuckles and leaves. It seems that from the start one could change the sapphires with nine pear pearls.
The parure consists of a tiara, pendant earrings, a necklace, a brooch
and a pair of hair sticks.
Princess Augusta of Bavaria. as a wedding gift January 1806
Queen Josefina of Sweden, neé Leuchtenberg a wedding gift
May 1823
Queen Lovisa of Sweden, neé Princess of the Netherlands
Queen Sofia of Sweden, neé Princess of Nassau
Queen Victoria of Sweden, neé Princess of Baden
Queen Louise of Sweden, neé Princess of Battenberg
Queen Silvia of Sweden, neé Sommerlath started to wear the set as she became Queen after her marriage June 1976