Article and photos of the "Midnight Tiara":
http://lacortereale.blogspot.com/2010/10/midnight-tiara-capolavoro-di-design-per.html
"Midnight tiara": a masterpiece of design for Princess Mary of Denmark
The "tiara from the Crypt", we have seen more than once adorned the head of the beautiful Princess Mary, is a true masterpiece of Danish design.
It 'was designed by Charlotte Lynggaard in 2009, the exhibition at the palace Amalienborg entitled "The tiara, queen of jewelry, gem of queens," in which they were exposed pieces of the past, members of the Danish royal family, the result of design and tiaras contemporary.
It is the result of about three hundred hours of work, in which Charlotte and her team of highly skilled goldsmiths have reproduced the leaves and branches in white gold, rose gold and silver, oxidized black.
The 31 flower buds were made with about 1,300 diamonds skillfully set in gold white, moonstone and various shades and sizes, creating effects of light and shadows like a night sky illuminated by the moon at midnight.
The transaction price is around 200 thousand euros (1 million crowns and a half): the tiara was not purchased by the Crown Princess of Denmark but has reached an agreement under which the jeweler Ole Lynggaard official supplier since 2008 the royal house, retains ownership of the object but allows its use only to the princess.