Thank you Viv - I am certainly glad the Danish nation has moved on! But I know from my history lessons that our own Queen Alexandra and the Tsarina Maria Feodorovna (Princess Dagmar) never forgave the Prussian side of the family - I wonder if it is just a family stigma which would stop Queen Anne Marie from wearing the tiara - the emeralds and rubies are acquisitions from Queen Olga - so a safe Russian route. The diamond tiara is from the Prussian side and much beloved by Queens Sophia & Frederika! Just a theory of mine... I certainly do not believe that it was sold to anyone and rescued by Crown Princess Pavlos' Millions!
I know that the two sisters were hissing anti-Prussians! Maybe it's time
to remind ourselves that their father was so intent on keeping Schleswig-Holstein that he contacted Biscmark and offered to let Denmark join
the German Federation (and he did so without telling his government!!) How about that
? The only reason that German is not my mother's tongue is that Biscmark turned down King Christian's suggestion - he thought it would cause too much trouble with the German - rsp. Danish minded populations in the area. So first Bismarck gives the King a refusal and next he humiliates the ill-equipped Danish troops and takes the duchies.
Back to the Sophie-tiara: I'll go along with Snowflower's collateral theory, but of course, we could both be wrong
. I suppose it would trigger
one or two additional posts should Anne-Marie decide to wear the tiara
in connection with the 60th jubilee in the UK. I take it that there will
be at least one tiara-occasion, or what??
Until 1973, Constantine continued to receive his allowance from the state, since the military regime didn't question his status as Head of State until that year.
Constantine and Anne-Marie were also said to be supported by her mother (Queen Ingrid). She had had inherited her father in 1973, so it makes sense!
viv