Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Jewellery


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Weren't they presented to Edward VII and originally worn by Queen Alexandra?
 
padams2359 said:
Weren't they presented to Edward VII and originally worn by Queen Alexandra?
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The original (uncut) Cullinan diamond was indeed a present to Edward VII from the Government of Transvaal, and was given to Asscher and Company of Amsterdam to cut into several smaller stones. Two of the largest stones (Cullinan I and Cullinan II) were returned to the King who also bought Cullinan VI in a separate transaction as a gift to Queen Alexandra.

The smaller numbered diamonds - Cullinans III to V and VII to IX, as well as all the unnumbered stones were retained by the Asscher company as a fee for their service. Later, all of these stones were purchased by the Government of South Africa and presented by the Commissioner of the Union of South Africa to Queen Mary in 1910, on the occasion of her impending Coronation.

Queen Alexandra sometimes wore a brooch made of Cullinans I and II. However, it was eventually decided that the stones should be part of the Crown Jewels so Cullinan I was incorporated into the Sovereign's Sceptre with Cross. Queen Mary would later wear Cullinan I and Cullinan II separately, in various settings, several times. She also wore them in a brooch setting, with Cullinan III and IV (also in a brooch setting) hanging from her diamond necklaces. The stone has very rarely been removed from its sceptre setting since 1930s. Cullinan II was mounted into the Imperial State Crown and thus has been worn pretty regularly by all subsequent Monarchs (for Openings of Parliament).
Although Cullinan VI was in her possession (and incorporated into the Diamond Diadem later bequeathed to Queen Maud of Norway - without the Cullinan, of course), Alexandra never actually wore it. She has never worn any of the other Cullinans either because they were never in her possession, having been given directly to Mary of Teck by the Government of South Africa, as mentioned above.


You can read more about the Cullinan diamond here - Cullinan: The Word’s Largest Diamond Ever.

The individual numbered numbered diamonds:
Cullinan Diamonds: Cullinan I (The Star of Africa)
Cullinan Diamonds: Cullinan II (The Second Star of Africa)
Cullinan Diamonds: Cullinan III and IV Brooch (Granny's Chips)
Cullinan Diamonds: Cullinan V Brooch
Cullinan Diamonds: Cullinan VI and VIII Brooch
Cullinan Diamonds: Cullinan VII
Cullinan Diamonds: Cullinan IX (The Ring)
 
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This emerald necklace is absolutely exquisite!

Pic 2
 
Wow. I don't recall seeing that before. Gorgeous. :ermm:
 
And what I assume is the matching brooch in the second picture is pretty stupendous as well.
 
An Ard Ri said:
Its really beautiful,do we know what became of it after the death of the Queen Mother in 2002?
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HM entire collection was left to her daughter Queen Elizabeth II. A sovereign to sovereign bequest does not attract death duties.
A large proportion of the Queen Mothers jewels appear to have been made available for the use of the Duchess of Cornwall.
 
snowflower said:
I' ve been wondering lately why the QMother didn't receive a "historic" piece of jewellery as a wedding present from her mother - in -law , when her sisters -in-law did (except Mrs Simpson of course). Mary - she got her great -grandmother Victoria's sapphire coronet( actually,, striclty speaking, that was the King's gift , not the Queen's). Marina - she got the sapphires that QMary had inherited from her aunt the Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg - Strelitz who had inherited them from her mother Augusta . Alice - she got the turquoises that where her wedding gift from her parents and where previously owned by her mother. All these pieces have important family history behind them and passed down from one family memeber to another for a few generations. The Queen Mother, however, got a newly purchased turquoise parure, and a contemporary suite of sapphires, nothing as historical as the rest. I don't know if the riviere she got had any family history behind (all three brides marrying into the family got a riviere from the King, but these jewellery is not easy to identify). Any ideas why this happened?
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At what point in time was Queen Elizabeth given the Teck Crescent Tiara & the Circle necklace from Queen Mary's mother?
 
IloveCP said:
This emerald necklace is absolutely exquisite!

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These are probably the Greville emeralds. I have never seen the first picture previously, but have seen the second one (in the yellow dress) before. Rare sightings!
 
Baroness of Books said:
And what I assume is the matching brooch in the second picture is pretty stupendous as well.
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The brooch was used quite regularly by QEQM. It is now with Camilla, who used it early in her marriage to the PoW, but has not used it for some time now.
 
Is the Strathmore Rose Tiara a part of Queen Elizabeth II's personal collection of Jewels?:yorkrose::lancasterrose::tudorrose:
 
CyrilVladisla said:
Is the Strathmore Rose Tiara a part of Queen Elizabeth II's personal collection of Jewels?:yorkrose::lancasterrose::tudorrose:
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Yes it is. It was a gift from her father in 1923 for her wedding, although I've read that it is older than that.

It remained in her collection for the rest of her life, though, and passed to the Queen when she died in 2002.
 
For the coronation of her husband, King George VI, Queen Consort Elizabeth wore Queen Victoria's collet necklace along with a much larger necklace.
What was the name of the larger necklace?
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In the photos I saw, she had on the Collet and 2 strands of much longer pearls.
 
Here are the best photos I could find of the Queen Mother's 2 engagement rings:

1 2 3 4 5

I assume her daughter Elizabeth has her rings.
 
I've been reading this thread i would like to add my two cents on the subject ( my first post!). I read that her engagement ring was a sapphire one but on so many pictures i've seen of her, it looks more like a large pearl. That bothered me very much. But it looks like everyone agrees that she had two.
I noticed that she rarely ever worn the sapphire one again after the birth of Princess Margaret (I could be wrong about the timeline but pretty sure it was sometimes before she was queen). She did not seem to like it. I wonder where it is now. I would love to see it in color so am eagerly await for its future reappearance!:D

  1. The sapphire still there
  2. Then replaced by the pearl ring
Before I thought Duchess of Cornwall's ring was a third of her engagement rings (how many she had here for one husband!:ROFLMAO:) but you guys have proven me wrong. Somebody here said it was an anniversary gift from the King I should like to try and dig further as to what anniversary so please stay tuned!

I would also like to point out, not sure if anyone noticed this, that although she alternated between the three rings on social occasions she never took off her gold wedding ring as you can see on these pictures here.

  1. Is that the one Charles gave Camilla? and the wedding ring
  2. The pearl and the wedding ring
  3. On rare occasion, only the gold wedding ring
 
Its a shame that we haven't seen it in such a long time!
 
Amazing jewelry collection that has the Queen Elizabeth. And fortunately the Duchess of Cornwall enjoys it.
 
Curryong said:
It is indeed very pretty, if a little more suited to 1920's and 1930's hairstyles. Do we really know that it is still in one piece and in a vault somewhere? It's odd that the Queen Mother didn't have it reworked later in life.
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I think I've heard (I might be way of base) that the tiara was in silver and has become rather fragile and "dark" and that's why it's not been in use? I might be thinking of something else.
 
Curryong said:
It is indeed very pretty, if a little more suited to 1920's and 1930's hairstyles. Do we really know that it is still in one piece and in a vault somewhere? It's odd that the Queen Mother didn't have it reworked later in life.
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As the blog above explains the tiara was exhibited at the V&A in 2002. Since it is very unlikely that the Queen has sold or dismantled the tiara since then, we can be fairly sure that the tiara is still in one piece and in the vault.

As the blog also states, the Strathmore rose tiara was purchased 2nd hand and was already made in the 19th century. So it was not made with the intention to wear it that way. And there is at least one picture of the Duchess of York wearing it in the traditional fashion, and in my opinion this works equally well.
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Glad that this beautiful tiara hasn't been dismantled. Of course, if it was made in the first 20 years of the 19th century women would equally have worn the piece low on the brow.
 
The 1920s with their fashion of wearing tiaras low on the brow were in the 20th century.:flowers: 19th century means that is was made before 1900, in an era when tiaras where worn higher on the crown of the head.

From the Court Jeweller blog: 'In The Queen's Diamonds, Hugh Roberts notes that although the piece was purchased in the 1920s, it was made in England in the late nineteenth century.'
So it was probably made in the 1880s or 1890s.
 
muriel said:
These are probably the Greville emeralds. I have never seen the first picture previously, but have seen the second one (in the yellow dress) before. Rare sightings!
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I think the last time the Emerald Necklace came out was in the 60s at the coronation of the Sha of Iran. I wish someone would wear this and show us its still around!
 
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