Queen Máxima Jewels 1: 2013 - 2021


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What a treat to see Maxima tonight, just stunning! She can sure rock the big jewels, one of my favorite things about her. Such a massive piece even in its lowered form with the larger diamonds removed, but Max wears it with panache!
 
Of the 5 top diamonds it seems that the Stuart was not worn. Diamonds no 2 and 4 are worn as gigantic earrings and one of the smaller side diamonds has been moved to the middle of the tiara.

I knew it would be an impressive tiara but I have never thought it would actually look nice in reality, but it does. It even looks beautiful. On the video for some reason it reminded me of QEII's Girls of GB tiara, a chunkier cousin perhaps.

The bow brooch: lovely as it is, to me it always looks slightly unfinished without a pendant. If the design of the old corsage is not used again, perhaps it would be perfect to take hang one of the available side top diamonds below it, and below that the actual Stuart diamond. Of course it may be too heavy & tear the fabric of the dress, which was an issue with the older version of the corsage IIRC.

And the best thing of all: Queen Maxima looks as if she has been wearing this tiara for years already. She was born to wear tiaras. Now it has re-appeared I hope it will become HM's favourite tiara & she will wear it often.
 
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I thought Meghan and her Q Mary bandeau will be the biggest tiara surprise of the year and Maxima just brings out her Stuart.
I love the smaller setting, the original one is a bit overwhelming to me. And the earrings is lovely.
 
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When I saw her wear the Stuart necklace, I knew that she would wear the tiara some day, most likely soon. And here we go!

I also like the smaller version, it's more harmonious as a whole. The full version is TALL.
 
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If there is anything I love nearly as much as hats, it is tiaras. Coming home to these photos (both day and evening photos) I am totally giddy. Getting all the hats and tiaras I could want. :flowers:

I am so excited to see the Stewart. I have always loved this tiara. I have hoped to see it since Max was queen and started breaking out the bigger jewels. I am so thrilled to see it. ?

Looks much better without the massive diamonds though. :flowers:

Tiaras like this take someone with presence to wear. Maxima definitely can.
 
Wow, what a WOW-zer!!!! Even without the Stuart Diamond the Tiara is impressive. Look at the huge diamonds on either side and her earrings! That alone is stunning!
BYe Bine
 
Quite MARVELLOUS alterations to a frankly unwieldy and unwearable Tiara [in its original form]. IMO it is now one of the finest all diamond 'Big Gun' Tiaras in any Royal collection.

Bravo Majesty,and to the clever craftspeople responsible.
 
Using the Dutch collection to the max!
 
It is known that Queen Máxima acquires new pieces to her jewelry collection. On this page of the blog modekoninginmaxima.nl the jewely specialist Edwin Fellner claims that a diamond rivière with more than 50 brilliants was a new acquisition. It was worn at the second day of the State Visit to Portugal: picture

Edwin Fellner: "Onlangs is de collectie uitgebreid met een aflopend briljanten rivière met meer dan 50 briljanten, welke ook nog verlengd kan worden met een verlengstukje met 8 briljanten."

("Recently the collection has been extended with a sloping brilliant-cut diamond rivière with more than 50 diamonds, which can also be extended with an extension consisting 8 diamonds").

No idea how Edwin Fellner knows it, or sees it. If true: it surprises me that the Dutch royal collection has another diamond rivière added. One would say: plenty of this sort of diamond rivières! It sounds as the most un-needed addition ever...

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Duc_et_Pair said:
It is known that Queen Máxima acquires new pieces to her jewelry collection. On this page of the blog modekoninginmaxima.nl the jewely specialist Edwin Fellner claims that a diamond rivière with more than 50 brilliants was a new acquisition. It was worn at the second day of the State Visit to Portugal: picture

Edwin Fellner: "Onlangs is de collectie uitgebreid met een aflopend briljanten rivière met meer dan 50 briljanten, welke ook nog verlengd kan worden met een verlengstukje met 8 briljanten."

("Recently the collection has been extended with a sloping brilliant-cut diamond rivière with more than 50 diamonds, which can also be extended with an extension consisting 8 diamonds").

No idea how Edwin Fellner knows it, or sees it. If true: it surprises me that the Dutch royal collection has another diamond rivière added. One would say: plenty of this sort of diamond rivières! It sounds as the most un-needed addition ever...

:whistling:
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If the necklace has been bought , it must have been acquired with a specific purpose I'm mind. Perhaps she likes QE2'S triple string festoon necklace and wants to replicate it. Or she wants to upgrade to a more special emerald tiara, and is collecting the diamonds to go with it.
 
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If the necklace has been bought , it must have been acquired with a specific purpose I'm mind. Perhaps she likes QE2'S triple string festoon necklace and wants to replicate it. Or she wants to upgrade to a more special emerald tiara, and is collecting the diamonds to go with it.
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Queen Máxima is already able to wear multiple strands of diamond rivières if she wishes so. The famous Bandeau with the large brilliant cut diamonds is just a converted collier. There is a mirroring rivière with that (picture) and there are other smaller rivières (like this).

If there is a desire, Queen Máxima could already wear several strands of brilliant-cut diamond rivières to pack out. The purchase of again another diamond rivière (picture) is a mystery for me. I would say: buy amethysts, citrines, aquamarines, to add more colour....
 
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The diamonds do look differently from the other rivieres. The colour seems to be slightly different for starters. I thought the necklace was cleaned when I saw it in Portugal, but perhaps a new one indeed.

It looks different form the riviere that Beatrix wore in Stockholm too: http://c.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000FU0ypPSdOh8/s/650/650/NEWSPIX1391041-Queen-Beatrix.JPG

I believe there is a smaller one too, often used by Pss Margriet.

Maybe a gift from somewhere? Or maybe the rumour that there were a lot of stones lying around were true and they used them to make a new necklace? There seems to be little logic in buying yet another riviere. It must have costed a fortune considering the diamonds are of a substantial size.
 
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Marengo said:
The diamonds do look differently from the other rivieres. The colour seems to be slightly different for starters. I thought the necklace was cleaned when I saw it in Portugal, but perhaps a new one indeed.

It looks different form the riviere that Beatrix wore in Stockholm too: http://c.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000FU0ypPSdOh8/s/650/650/NEWSPIX1391041-Queen-Beatrix.JPG

I believe there is a smaller one too, often used by Pss Margriet.

Maybe a gift from somewhere? Or maybe the rumour that there were a lot of stones that were lying around were true and they used them to make a new necklace? There seems to be little logic in buying yet another riviere. It must have costed a fortune considering the diamonds are of a substantial size.
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Exactly, that was what I thought. The Orange-Nassaus are well-endowed in diamonds, pearls, rubies and sapphires. Maybe they could use a few more emeralds and gemstones of another colour. More diamonds is like carrying water to the sea.
 
few more emeralds and gemstones of another colour
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Certainly an 'upgrade' on the horrible Emerald parure Tiara would be a VERY good idea, as would investing in a wider variety of Coloured stones...
 
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Certainly an 'upgrade' on the horrible Emerald parure Tiara would be a VERY good idea, as would investing in a wider variety of Coloured stones...
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When properly worn it is not that horrible ( see picture ) but I agree the diadem can be enlarged with some more diamonds and emeralds indeed. The earhangers worn by Queen Máxima here are new additions, so they could have placed the emeralds from the older earrings (see picture) back into the diadem, where these actually belong.

The emeralds, heirlooms from the Hohenzollerns, were brought into the family by Princess Wilhelmina of Prussia when she married The Prince of Orange in 1767. The respectable anciennity of the emeralds maybe is an hindrance to mix it with newly purchased emeralds, let alone to achieve a precize match in color and clarity?
 
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The emerald tiara needs five prongs to look really better. But apart from that, it is a nice small tiara, and completely appropriate for lower profile events. And it will we a nice tiara for the A-team princesses, once they come off age.

I wonder how correct the info about Maxima buying that new riviere really is. Could it be fabricated news?
 
Like Marengo I thought hey, what a superior sparkle and what a fresh look. I thought the stones have had a cleaning. I noticed it for the first time in Copenhagen, at the second day of the State Visit. A sparkling collier with the Claes Iversen gown. Apparently that is the new collier. I am not sure. All rivières look the same to me.

https://c7.alamy.com/comp/EJ03C3/co...en-maxima-attend-the-dutch-culture-EJ03C3.jpg

You can see a fresher look for the diamonds in the rivière than for the ones in tr pendant: https://static-sls.smf.aws.sanomacl.../wysiwyg_images/hh-71321578.jpg?itok=Hnh3uMhy

For me it is impossible to say.
 
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Tilia C. said:
The emerald tiara needs five prongs to look really better. But apart from that, it is a nice small tiara, and completely appropriate for lower profile events. And it will we a nice tiara for the A-team princesses, once they come off age.
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I agree, the tiara needs 5 prongs. That still think it is a relatively small tiara, and Max really could do with a more substantial emerald tiara.

Tilia C. said:
I wonder how correct the info about Maxima buying that new riviere really is. Could it be fabricated news?
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We are unlikely find out whether it is true or not.
 
I think they should take out all the prongs from the emerald tiara. Let's not make it more than it is: it is a delicate design that can even be pretty enough on its own merit.

Attempts to make it grander -by (re)attaching 2 prongs or several pearls resulted in a very unfortunate looks IMHO, the thing looks completely out of balance. And the very last thing the Dutch royal jewel collection needed was more prongs. The newly attached emeralds would IMHO look better if they were not used at all or if they had been integrated in the design & be placed much lower, between the little scrols.

The necklace could benifit from a small extention as in the present form it seems to be strangling the wearer. When the brooch was attached in Portugal it seemed that it was cutting HM's throat.
 
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The large round green earrings are horrible and not even Maxima can do them an justice.
 
IloveCP said:
The Ruby Peacock Tiara | The Court Jeweller

Interesting tiara but I dislike it.
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I have seen a video of Princess Máxima leaving the return banquet by the Swedish King in The Hague and was gobsmacked by the unexpected awesome glitter caused by this diadem. Possibly the parure has been re-set after an ultrasone cleaning: the desired effect certainly was there. Wow!
 
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