Omigod.........I have been perusing these jewel threads today and really it is all such delicious guilty fun! On occasion I have come across references to horrors with which I am familiar such as Queen Sonja's Wonder woman/Star trek monstrosity and Sophie Wessex's cobbled together Klingon aquamarine 'demi'-tiara, and I love the concept of the scarab necklace thing....but it just doesn't work. Anyway, I have been increasingly intrigued when posters kept mentioning Princess Astrid's Wings in pained tones! To be honest I assumed the wings would be like one of those rather pretty Chaumet affairs and my interest was naturally whetted! But then I finally came across a picture of the Princess sporting her wings, with Haakon and MM... OHhhh goodness me....the music from The Omen mixed with the shower scene Eeeek Eeek Eeeek from 'Psycho' started pounding in my ears and I choked on my glass of Chablis..... Ohhhhhh......Hmmmm......Ooooh....well needlees to say it was one of those moments.....what can one say!!! Initially, the Princess reminded me rather of Mavis Cruet the Fairy from the 1980s animated cartoon Wilo' the Wisp! It is terrible......because after a moment of utter near hysterical pitched shock and awe, as I regained my composure and wiped the tears from my eyes, those wings sprouting out from Astrid's hair began to look rather like a pair of mini diamante encrusted bunny ears! The sort of headdress that a certain Mr Hefner may give one of his playmates to don!!!! Oh my....why has no one told Astrid!!!! This atrocity absolutely must be accidently on purpose lost sooner rather than later!
Then again, perhaps they are Chaumet diamond wings and Astrid has been fiddling with them rather more than she aught to have done, perhaps in a bid to try to make them look 'elevated'.....if so they simply must be sent to nearest master goldsmith to be restored to a less disneyesque and gruesome elevation at once! If Astrid hasn't been fiddling with them....well I am confounded by the seeming cruelty being demonstrated in permitting such a 'vintage' Princess to be obliged to don such a horror!