Where do royal families keep their jewels?

[Blog Real]

Where do European royal families keep their most important jewels, such as tiaras? Is there any information on this subject?

I believe they are kept in the following places:
United Kingdom - Buckingham Palace
Denmark - Amalienborg Palace
Spain - Zarzuela Palace
Sweden - Drottningholm Palace
Norway - Oslo Royal Palace
Netherlands - Huis ten Bosch Palace
Belgium - Laeken Castle

 

[Silverpot]

I should think that the Swedish bling is kept at the Royal Palace. It's safer than Drottningholm.

 

[tommy100]

Didn't Prince Harry's book spill the detail about the room the late Queen kept her jewels in at BP? It sounded big which I guess isn't a surprise given how many tiaras and jewels she had.

 

[Blog Real]

Didn't Prince Harry's book spill the detail about the room the late Queen kept her jewels in at BP? It sounded big which I guess isn't a surprise given how many tiaras and jewels she had.

Yes, Harry mentioned this in the book, but I don't remember the details. But it confirms that the jewels are kept at Buckingham Palace.

 

[duke of poliganc]

I should think that the Swedish bling is kept at the Royal Palace. It's safer than Drottningholm.

I think Princess Margaretha mentioned once that she keeps the aquamarine kokoshnik in the royal palace safe for other members to use and for safekeeping so we can assume that the major jewels not the day time jewels are kept there and with the crown jeweler WA Bolin AB being based in Stockholm it make much more sense to have them he jewels in Stockholm for transferring the jewelry to and from their workshop

 

[Blog Real]

I also saw a documentary that the Grand Ducal Family of Luxembourg keeps their jewels at Berg Castle, but I've never found that documentary again.
It's almost certain that the Spanish Royal Family's jewels are kept safe at Zarzuela Palace.
The biggest mystery is the Greek Royal Family, which, despite no longer being a reigning royal family, has very valuable jewels. I believe they keep most of their jewels at Amalienborg Palace in Denmark.

 

[duke of poliganc]

I also saw a documentary that the Grand Ducal Family of Luxembourg keeps their jewels at Berg Castle, but I've never found that documentary again.
It's almost certain that the Spanish Royal Family's jewels are kept safe at Zarzuela Palace.
The biggest mystery is the Greek Royal Family, which, despite no longer being a reigning royal family, has very valuable jewels. I believe they keep most of their jewels at Amalienborg Palace in Denmark.

I think it make sense for Queen Anne Marie to keep her major jewels in Denmark, as currently most of the tiara events that she attended recently were in Denmark or the other Scandinavian monarchies where members of the Danish royal family also attended so they can bring the jewelry with them if the queen needs them and she is not in Denmark!

Also if I recall when her son remarried he went to Amalienborg palace days before the wedding with his wife to be so we could assume that he was there to retrieve the antique corsage tiara if it was kept there!

As for jewelry owned by Marie Chantel and her daughter fringe tiara I think they are likely stored in a bank safe in the UK or USA

 

[tommy100]

I think Princess Margaretha mentioned once that she keeps the aquamarine kokoshnik in the royal palace safe for other members to use and for safekeeping so we can assume that the major jewels not the day time jewels are kept there and with the crown jeweler WA Bolin AB being based in Stockholm it make much more sense to have them he jewels in Stockholm for transferring the jewelry to and from their workshop

This makes great sense, Princess Margaretha wouldn't need such a large tiara when in the UK and the insurance premiums for keeping it in her cottage in the UK would be huge. Much better to keep it stores safely in the well protected Royal Palace in Sweden, the country she is most likely to need to wear a tiara in.

 

[JR76]

According to this 2007 article in SVD the royal jewels are kept in "modern safes in the Royal palace". They used to be stored in the large Iron cupboard in the bedroom of King Karl Johan which today stands in the large guest apartment of the palace and is used to store the valuables of visiting dignitaries.

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Bernadottebibliotekets chef Göran Alm lyfter på locket till drottningens smyckeskrin. I den nya boken Drottning Silvias festklänningar & de kungliga smyckena berättar han allt om de glittrande stenarnas historia.

www.svd.se

We also know from the story about how Göran Alm found the Cut steele tiara that many jewels were stored in the Silver chamber of the palace up to at least the 1970s. Maybe that's where they still are.

Silverkammaren. Stockholms slott

sis.modernamuseet.se

We also know that Princess Christina kept her personal jewels in her home before she was burglared in 2012.

 

[Marengo]

In the Netherlands most jewels are supposedly kept in a vaulted room "in one of the palaces" [Noordeinde most likely]. From there they are brought to wherever the royal needs to get dressed says Dutch jewel expert Martijn Akkerman.

The Crown and some other historic/unwearable jewels are kept at the Royal Archives of Noordeinde Palace. It could be that the rest of the jewels share the same vaulted room.

When Juliana died they found a substantial amount of [personal?] jewels in drawers, cupboards etc. at Soestdijk Palace IIRC.

 

[Muhler]

I'm pretty sure that most DRF jewellery, except for some day-to-day wear are stored at Rosenborg, which also happens to be the barracks for the Royal Lifeguard battalion on duty.
I know that a number of jewellery pieces that are not a part of the crown jewels or official royal jewellery have been exhibited at Rosenborg. After all the crown jewels belongs to the state, hence why they are stored (and exhibited) at Rosenborg.
However, it seems logic to assume that many if not most private jewellery are stored in safes at Amalienborg (sometimes also Fredensborg) for easy access.

 

[tommy100]

It does make me think it if the most sensible idea for, for example, the British Royals to keep all their jewels at BP makes complete sense because god forbid someone was able to get to them then they could all be stolen (though realistically it would take one person hours to get them all out!) Splitting them between BP and Windsor would at least mean half the jewels are safe at any one time. Though I am sure they feel confident BP is ultra secure you just never know!