Royal jewelry

"The present enshrines the past"

Today, a popular request for one of the biggest mysteries (the biggest mystery? I might say so) among those that follow royal jewels for k...

The third Spencer Tiara formerly belonged to Marie Antoinette. It is pictured here with the Sutherland necklace. (The Sutherlands are a branch of the Spencer family who are also associated with the Churchill”s and the Dukes of Marlborough. Thery”re all the same family.) The Sutherland necklace is comprised of 17 of the largest diamonds from a necklace that was owned by Marie Antoinette AND is the necklace that helped spark the French Revolution.

So we made it through the windstorm with only loosing 3 trees. One of the huge fir trees that line our driveway was our biggest loss :(. It took out an apple and cherry tree with it. It was a crazy night. We lost power twice, but not for too long. Once the power went out we just went to bed anyway. On the sick end of things Zoie seems to be turning a corner today. She has eaten a little and seems to be feeling a lot better. Raygen has been good beside having to feed her very slow so she…

Princess Michael in the festoon tiara, emeralds and a lovely gown, very happy…

However, Princess Maria Gabriella was given her own tiara by her parents, and what a stunner it was too. Designed as circa eleven diamond and pearl pinnacles, with many button pearls, diamond foliates and fronds, topped by pearls and rising from a base of even more pearls and diamonds.

THE ROMANOVS JEWELRY ~ Spectacular floral tiara of Princess Natalia Golitsyn (1907-1989) She was the wife of Grand Duke Vassili, son of GD Xenia, Nikolay II's sister ~ NY ca 1959. Tiara was inherited by her only daughter Marina Romanov (b. 1940) who lives in California, the USA and got three daughters and one son from her marriage on William Beadleston ~ by dolores on Indulgy.com

Blanca Martinez de Irujo, niece of the Duchess of Alba, wearing her family's Antique Tiara, Spain (turquoises, diamonds).

Marie, Princess of Kent

Mrs. Rose Palmer wearing the Westminster Halo Tiara (later turquoise setting), United Kingdom (1930; made by Lacloche; turquoises, diamonds).

Sibilla princess of Luxembourg - with the remodeled Ansorena aquamarine tiara that had belonged to her great grandmother, Q Victoria Eugenia of Spain.

The Cartier Loop Tiara (Photo: Carlos Alvarez/Getty Images) Queen Sofia of Spain wears the Cartier Loop Tiara at a gala dinner for the King of Saudi Arabia, 18 June 2007

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