At the gala dinner at Amalienborg, Queen Sonja wore the emerald tiara with accompanying jewellery. This is what she always chooses for the biggest events, but also for many other events. In the last ten years, she has worn it eleven times.
The favorite is the reconstruction of the stolen pearl and diamond tiara of Queen Maud, which she has worn seventeen times in the last ten years. Between March 2015 and April 2016, she actually wore it to five gala dinners in a row.
In fact, in the last ten years she has worn only four tiaras. The diamond tiara long mistakenly attributed to Queen Désirée, but which the royal family through my new book has now learned belonged to Empress Joséphine, she has worn three times in the last ten years and the modern gold tiara made by Millie Behrens she has worn once this the period.
The fact that the Queen almost always wears the same jewelery may have contributed to the perception that the Norwegian royal family does not have much jewellery, but that perception is not correct. In the vault are, among other things, the Maltese cross tiara after Queen Alexandra of Great Britain, which has not been worn since 2011, Queen Maud's large diamond tiara, which has not been worn since 1993, and an unknown tiara that no one in the royal family has ever worn in public.
