Royal Family of Serbia Jewellery


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I always thought that it might be sprigs of orange blossoms. Very traditional for wedding hairstyles, and a good choice if there's no tiara at hand. Only the arrangement looks a bit awkward to me.
 
Princess Helen of Serbia was the daughter of King Peter I of Yugoslavia and Princess Zorka.
What tiara is she wearing in this photograph?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Helen_of_Serbia#/media/File:Yelena_of_Serbia.jpg

I am not 100% certain, but I think she is wearing her mothers tiara.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/de/8/82/Zorka_von_Montenegro.jpg

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/33/6b/e7/336be7c2dd26865a3a7d8581637557d8.jpg

Unfortunately, there are only 2 small pictures from which we can only suggest.

She also got many beautiful jewels as the wedding present from the Romanovs when she married into the family. In some of her memoirs she said that she was astonished by the beauty of the jewels she got as the wedding presents, including a tiara.
 
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:previous: Where was the Necklace Tiara borrowed from?

I really don't know :( This is how the necklace/tiara looks like in whole:

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/a7/02/75/a702759f74103b7b822228ea35ab7d67.jpg

It must have sold at some point and this picture could from an auction. At least it looks like that. If we could find the auction, we could have had some more information about the provenance.

Btw, before the marriage Princess Aspasia and Alexandra were financially supported by Sir James Horlick, 4th Baronet, with whose help they bought Garden of Eden Villa in Venice, so it could be Horlick baronets piece.

The pearl necklace and earrings in the previous photo were 18th birthday gift from her mother and I think that today Crown Princess Catherine wears them.

But, on the other hand, she was already married at the time she wore this tiara, so it could be borrowed by any of their wealthy friends of more probably from some jeweler.

She didn't like to wear any jewelry that had been previously worn by any lady who was in their circle of friends. For example, when she decided to give back the Russian Emerald parure to King Peter II to sell it (which was her property at that time), as he needed money, she stipulated that it could not be sold to any person, but just to the jewelers as she didn't want to get into any awkward situation and wanted to prevent that any lady might wear her jewels at an event that they might attend together in the future.

The only thing she borrowed from a person was her wedding dress, as they married during the war, in a hurry and didn't have much time to prepare it. Her wedding dress was borrowed to her by Princess Mary, wife of her cousin and her husbands first cousin, Prince Vsevolod of Russia, who wore the same dress at her wedding. Alexandra opted not to wear a tiara at her wedding as didn't want to look taller than her husband, as she already was taller than him.

Sorry for bigger post, but those are some kind of interesting details regarding jewels that I read in her book.
 
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I wonder what's the story behind CP Katherine's tiara. Probably it was bought for her, but is it an antique piece or a new one? I'm glad that she has at least this small tiara at her disposal.

The halo tiara worn by Crown Princess Alexandra looks so distinctly art deco, it's a style that we don't see that often in tiaras. It must have been a really modern look at the time.
 
Its small and beautiful but sadly gets lost in the Crown Princess's hair.

Actually, I don't think it's even that small, but it always gets lost in her hair and it looks smaller than it actually is. Just my opinion. Sadly, we don't know anything about the provenance of this tiara. :(
 
I was reading the diamond and pearl tiara 1st appeared at the Wedding of Frederick and Mary back in 2004.Prior to that there's no information.

Crown Princess Katherine’s Tiara | The Royal Watcher

I assume it's her personal property, as nobody except her has been wearing it. If it was CP Alexander's property, I assume his daughter in law would be wearing it at her wedding.

If it really is her personal property, I assume we will only see this tiara on her in the future.
 
The Crown Princess wore again in Sweden in 2010 in Luxembourg in 2012 and lastly in Albania in 2016,so I'm assuming that it is her own personal property.
 
That link is not working for me :previous:
 
One update:

Brilliant tiara owned by Queen Draga of Serbia, which was given to her as a wedding present by King Alexander of Serbia was sold at Christie's in 1904:

https://i1.wp.com/www.royalfoibles.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/img_9595.jpg?w=281&ssl=1

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/90/Kraljica_Draga_11.jpg

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/bd/a9/64/bda9647793b3f7860fd56e29ae169a14.jpg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipe..._Obrenović,_Museum_of_Rudnik-Takovo,_1901.jpg

It was sold for 1220 £ (don't know to what amount would it be equivalent today) to J. Moylan Jones, who referred to buying this tiara as: "the best bargain you'll ever get."

https://books.google.rs/books/about...tumes_of_Her.html?id=aVsUtwAACAAJ&redir_esc=y

The info is from this book.
 
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