Queen Maud Jewellery


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That pearl and diamond neclace / convertible to a tiara, has not been seen for decades. In an interview with Princess Astrid, Mrs. Ferner, she stated that they had never seen this necklace. There are only old pictures of it from Queen Mauds younger days. Probably this one was dismantled or sold by Queen Maud. I have another theory about it: When she took all her jewels with her in 1938, and they were stored at Windsor castle from her death (1938) until the coronation in 1953, it could have been disappeared in the vault of Windsor castle. One will never know what happened to it...

The same can be said about Queen Victorias gift, the diamond and ruby riviere necklace in two rows. Strange that there are no pictures of Queen Maud wearing it, and never seen anywhere. Strange to sell the most valuable item from the wedding gifts. A gift from the most prominent person.
 
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Coronation gifts

The official Norway royal family site, in the section on the royal collection, mentions that the Scottish people gifted Queen Maud an aquamarine necklace as part of their coronation gift. I can't remember seeing an aquamarine necklace on any member of the royal family. Can anyone else think of a candidate for this necklace?

Also did Queen Maud receive any other jewelry gifts for the coronation? So far I have only been able to find references to her wedding gifts
 
The same can be said about Queen Victorias gift, the diamond and ruby riviere necklace in two rows. Strange that there are no pictures of Queen Maud wearing it, and never seen anywhere. Strange to sell the most valuable item from the wedding gifts. A gift from the most prominent person.

I would love to know about her latticed collier necklace here: https://lh3.google.com/u/0/d/0B6zHN...h1216-iv2?resourcekey=0-TfzuDQU6QFCSauL2az2gk, as she wore it for official portraits, the Coronation, and it's on her statue, but it seems there is no information about it, only the pearl one.

...I wonder if it's possible the diamonds and rubies from Victoria's riviere were reset into this collier?
 
Just found this new to me photo in which it looks like Maud is wearing a coronet which could be a match with the coronet she wore to the Devonshire Costume Ball.
https://www.nasjonalmuseet.no/conte...3/maud_michelsen-middag_nett.jpg?scale=fullxl

The photo is from a dinner the Norwegian PM through to celebrate Maud's 36th birthday.

If I had to guess, I would say that's the Vifte? I think it's on record that she (and Toria) were wearing costume jewels to the ball (and Charles was anachronistically wearing his Elephant chain, but that's another thread...;)).

That dinner was literally less than 48 hours after they arrived in Norway, and after they'd gotten into a carriage accident with a little girl they'd needed to make sure was fine in the morning! It's funny how Haakon is the one who looks completely wiped out.

....or maybe he always looks like that if he sits at a table for too long. (Vifte here.)

Edit: the birthday one does seem a bit more spiky than the Vifte, but given there's no provenance for anything she wore to Devonshire House and how she was a brand-new queen at an important party thrown in her honor, I find it hard to believe she wouldn't reach for something real and a bit more weighty than something from a costume party eight years before...?

There is also the possibly that Michelsen and the other party guests gave her the equivalent of a paper crown? But that would ride on the assumption she wasn't wearing anything to the important function. Which seems silly.
 
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The official Norway royal family site, in the section on the royal collection, mentions that the Scottish people gifted Queen Maud an aquamarine necklace as part of their coronation gift. I can't remember seeing an aquamarine necklace on any member of the royal family. Can anyone else think of a candidate for this necklace?

Also did Queen Maud receive any other jewelry gifts for the coronation? So far I have only been able to find references to her wedding gifts

It could be this one maybe?
https://www.instagram.com/p/CKjg8E8F5qf/


About the "coronet" at her birthday dinner, this instagram says it is the long lost coronation necklace worn closed as coronet.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CfZex_-Mbks/
 
After looking at photos from Queen Maud's coronation I've come to the conclusion that she wore 4 (not 2) brooches down the center of her bodice, especially after comparing with photos of her coronation dress.
https://www.gogmsite.net/_Media/1906-queen-mauds-coronation.png
https://www.rct.uk/collection/search#/5/collection/2807484/king-haakon-vii-and-queen-maud-of-norway

First is a single large stone pinned at the top of the bodice, either a diamond or an aquamarine.
Below that is the diamond and pearl bow that was a wedding gift from the Rothschild's (Now worn by Princess Astrid)
Third is the diamond sun/star brooch whose provenance, I believe, is debated
The Fourth brooch is harder to make out but I think its 2 pearls, on top of the other. It could be the brooch warn by CP Martha in this picture https://www.rct.uk/collection/search#/3/collection/2926736/group-c-1929-30
 
My two krone prediction about the diamond tiara which last belonged to Princess Ragnhild:

-I think if Sonja or MM had any inclination to wear it by now, they would have done so.

We will see it when MM is Queen.
(Either that, or on IA as Crown Princess. Given her sustainability passion and all the shiny blingies coming to her through inheritance, she may never feel the need to have a brand-new tiara.)
 
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