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I love the necklace Queen Silvia is wearing and the earring is certainly new to me but I love the necklace even more.
The picture you posted is from the 70th birthday dinner of Queen Margrethe. Afaik, it was the only time Silvia wore it as a tiare since Madeleine started to wear it. But she has worn it a couple of times before Madeleine got her hands on it.I just found out that Silvia got the Modern Fringe tiara as a 10 year wedding anniversary gift. Correct me if I am wrong but, I think she only has worn it as a tiara only once here in 2010. She has worn it as a neckace a couple of times though.
Queen Silvia's contemporary cabochon ruby set, consisting of matching necklace, earrings, two bracelets and ring, was most probably a gift from the Sultan of Brunei in 2005:
http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/570/gala02.jpg
I'm quite certain that at least some of Queen Silvia's sets of emeralds, four seperate modern ones altogether, are gifts from Arab rulers.
Even Silvia's modern diamond fringe tiara/necklace, shared with Princess Madeleine, could fall in the category.
It was always claimed (but never confirmed) that the piece is a 10th wedding anniversary gift from the King, but the style of it is very similar to the Harry Winston necklaces received by Queen Elizabeth II from Saudi Arabian Royals around the same time of the Swedish state visit to Saudi Arabia in 1981 - and the jewelry gifts to Queen Silvia which she must have received during that visit were never made public.
I believe the modern fringe tiara was first seen in public in 1988 - the very first time was either an event in Sweden when it was worn as a tiara, or the long state visit in spring '88 to the USA, where Queen Silvia wore it a couple of times as a necklace.Thanks Boris, for correcting my timeline. Do you also know when Silvia wore the modern fringe for the very first time?
Queen Silvia at the Diamond Jubilee Lunch for Elizabeth II, wearing a new brooch with her yellow gold and diamond set which dates back to the mid-1980s:
http://s14.postimage.org/4m1mvdsu9/Screenshot_1.jpg
Queen Silvia at the Jubilee Banquet in England wearing diamonds and sapphires or just diamonds?
http://i50.tinypic.com/xbahid.jpg
Could someome please tell me about Queen Silvia's necklace?
I notice the brooch , but didn't know if it's new .Thanks for the information, Boris