Here is another article about the History of a Jewel from Kungliga Magasinet that I have tried to translate to the best of my ability:
Queen Josefina, who was the wife of King Oscar I, brought with her an enormous treasure in the form of jewels and gems when she arrived in Sweden after the couple's wedding in 1823. Since Josefina's grandmother was Napoleon's wife Empress Josefina, her family had a very extensive jewel collection. One of the pieces of jewelry that Josefina brought to Sweden consisted of amethysts and diamonds.
Amethyst has long been one of the most popular gemstones. The violet colored gemstone was popular in the Middle Ages and later during the Renaissance, it was then a new popularity in the 1800s empire - and nyrokokosmycken.
After Queen Josefina's death in 1876 could be in her probate find a collection ametistjuveler consisting of necklace, earrings, brooch, and two bracelets. These included also a knocker, a pendant, which could be attached to the necklace. The purple stones are large, keeps an extremely high quality and are surrounded by diamonds. The jewelery bequeathed Queen Josefina to his grandson, later King Gustaf V and when he married the late German Princess Victoria of Baden in September 1881 he handed over the gift of her grandmother's beautiful amethysts.
It assumes that the Victoria wore amethysts on several occasions but there is no photographic evidence of this. A person, however who often wore the jewelry was her daughter in law, Gustaf VI Adolf's second wife, Queen Louise. Gustaf V and Queen Victoria made sure to incorporate amethysts in the Bernadotte family Foundation for jewels. The purpose of the foundation was to ensure that the jewelry stayed in Sweden instead of ending up in other royal families in connection with the princesses married into foreign royal families. Many of the jewelry found in the Danish and Norwegian royal families derived for example from the Swedish Queen Josefina.
The Swedish royal ladies often wear the exquisitely beautiful amethysts but actually in a different way than Queen Josefina did. In the late 1970s Queen Silvia created a diadem of the large collar. A silver position was derived that the necklace could be attached to and thus had a new diadem seen the light of the Swedish royal family. The Queen personally found the necklace was too big to carry around your neck and that it would instead be a good tiara. The pendant is shaped like a crown, a closed diadem, and the Queen has worn it many times on the Nobel festivals, state visits and royal family gatherings. The two bracelets could merge into a necklace, and the Queen has often attached pendant, striker, who has always been a part of amethysts jewels.
Crown Princess Victoria has also worn the amethysts many times, and Princess Madeleine first premiered the jewelery at the Nobel Banquet in 2012. The king's sisters, Princesses Margaretha, Desiree and Christina have also borrowed the amethysts through the years, but never used by Princess Lilian, the violet stones. In future certainly Princess Estelle use at Queen Josefina exquisite amethyst. This will be linked to the royal history together.
) and not locked up in someone's vault...
