When it comes to the British Royal jewels, I'd prefer Leslie Field's book over Suzy Menkes' anytime: Better researched, better photographs, absolutely reliable. Suzy Menkes provides more info on the jewels of The Duchess of Windsor, Princess Diana and The Duchess Of York, including great pics, but there are also quite a few major factual mistakes in those sections. When it comes to the 'historical' Windsor jewels, Leslie Field's book is still the best to buy.
Munn's book is wonderful, but its focus is on British jewels only, both royal and noble.
I wish there was just one single book documenting the jewelry collections of all European Royal houses, but none has been published so far.
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