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In February 1981, Diana Spencer was engaged to Prince Charles. The young princess chose a 12-carat Ceylon sapphire ring surrounded by 14 diamonds. She discovered it in the catalog of ready-made jewelry of the royal jewelry supplier, the British firm Garrard. The ring was bought for £28,500 and became part of the British Crown Treasury (shortly before Lady Diana's death in 1997, the ring was already valued at £250,000). In 2010, Diana's son Prince William presented this ring to his fiancee Kate Middleton.

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Spencer family tiara

On July 29, 1981, the wedding ceremony of Diana and Prince Charles took place. The Princess of Wales walked down the aisle in a gown designed by designer couple David and Elizabeth Emmanuel and a magnificent Spencer family tiara. The elegant headpiece with a floral motif of diamonds has belonged to Diana's father's family since 1919. Diana's mother and both of her sisters married in it.

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Sapphires and diamonds

On the day of the wedding, Diana was presented with a lot of jewelry. The most opulent of the 12,000 gifts was from the prince of Saudi Arabia (whom Diana had never personally met). The pendant with a huge Burmese sapphire came with earrings, a ring, a bracelet and a watch created by jewelers Asprey. Subsequently, the gems from this set were used for a choker on a velvet ribbon (at one of the receptions in 1986, Diana wore a neck jewelry as a bandeau). Another sapphire brooch was given to the newlywed as a gift from the queen mother - from a large sapphire framed by a double row of diamonds, Diana ordered to make a choker with seven strings of pearls and often wore it until the end of her life (she could not stand brooches).

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Windsor family tiara

tiara Cambridge Lover's Knot(or Queen Mary Lover's Knot) Diana received as a wedding gift from Queen Elizabeth II - that jewel with diamonds and large tear-shaped pearls was inherited from her grandmother, wife of George V, Queen Mary of Teck. The Princess of Wales wore this tiara only on special occasions, because she considered it too heavy and uncomfortable, and always complained of a headache if she wore the regalia for too long. After the divorce, Diana returned the tiara to the royal treasury. Today, Kate Middleton has access to this family jewel.

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Chokers

In addition to a sapphire choker and seven rows of pearls, Diana was very fond of the jewelry set presented by the Sultan of Oman in 1986 during her visit with Prince Charles to the United Arab Emirates. She liked how original and modern this set looked. Mary of Teck got another choker. Short necklace Garrard in the Art Deco style with emeralds was commissioned by the Queen in the 1920s, and after her death passed to Elizabeth II, who did not like the precious thing much and gave it to Diana. She often wore this necklace, including as a decoration for her head.

"Swan Lake" performed by English National ballet she was seen wearing a necklace with 178 diamonds and five South Sea pearls. Since then, the “farewell” jewel has been named after this great classical ballet.

Earl Spencer Tiara worn by Diana, Princess of Wales.

This tiara was worn by several women from the line of Earl Spencer, but most often this decoration is associated with the name of Diana, Princess of Wales. Princess Diana wore this tiara for the first time at her wedding in 1981, when it was customary to wear something borrowed.

Diana is led to the altar by Father Earl Spencer

She also wore this tiara to formal occasions when required by her status as a member of the royal family. Outside, she was at state banquets, openings of parliament and diplomatic receptions.

Throughout her life, Princess Diana returned to this tiara, although the tiara did not formally belong to her, it was inherited from one Earl Spencer to another through the male line. So the owner of the tiara was her father, and later she passed to the brother of Princess Diana.

Let's take a closer look at the tiara. Compositions of diamonds in the form of flowers and stars are set in a gold setting.

WITH it was reported that this decoration is a family heirloom from the eighteenth century, but this is a misconception. The tiara is made up of several fragments. Of the entire tiara, only the two outermost fragments are old, and as were taken from a tiara owned by Frances, Viscountess Montagu and passed to Lady Sarah Spencer in 1875. The tiara is believed to have been made in 1767, but the style of the piece is more like that of the 1830s. The centerpiece of the tiara was a wedding gift from Lady Sarah Spencer to her sister-in-law Cynthia, Viscountess Althorp (Diana's grandmother) in 1919. In the 20th century, the tiara was remounted and four new elements were added, which were made in accordance with the elements of the ancient tiara.

She wore this tiara on her wedding day. princess Diana. It was also worn on their wedding day by Diana's sister Lady Jane Fellows in 1978 and by Victoria Lockwood, the first wife of her brother Charles Spencer in 1989.

Recently, the engagement of Charles Spencer's daughter Lady Kitty Spencer (Diana's niece) was announced, it is possible that Lady Kitty will wear the same tiara at her wedding. Let's wait for the wedding.

Earl Spencer's daughter and cousin of Princes William and Harry Lady Kitty Spencer is getting married. Her chosen one was Nick Compton, the grandson of the English champion Denis Compton. Nick, like his grandfather, plays cricket. Kitty was educated in management and marketing.

Kitty is the daughter of Charles Spencer and his first wife Victoria Lockwood. She is 22 years old. Nick is 29 years old.

Cambridge Lover's Knot Tiara

Tiara made in 1913Cambridge Lover's Knot, which means love Knot, with gothic renaissance features,is the prototype of the original tiara of the same name.

It was given to the grandmother of Queen Marymaternal, princess August Hesse, Duchess of Cambridge, wife of Prince Adolf, Duke of Cambridge, seventh son of King George III.

From the history of Cambridge Lover's Knot

The Duchess wore the tiara to Queen Victoria's coronation at Westminster Abbey in 1838. Years later, Augusta gave a "love knot" to her eldest daughter, Augusta Caroline, when she married Prince Friedrich Wilhelm, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz in 1843.

They had only one surviving son, Adolf Friedrich, whomarried Princess Elisabeth of Anhalt in 1877 and had four children from that marriage, two daughters and two sons, in 1904 succeeded his father as Grand Duke.

Their second daughter, Duchess Jutta, married the Crown Prince of Montenegro. Most likely, it was to her (her granddaughter) that the Grand Duchess Augusta gave the tiara when she got married.

After World War I, when Montenegro was to be part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, the royal family fled. Jutta and her husband Danilo lived in exile in France; after the death of her husband, Jutta moved to Rome, where she died in 1946.

Duchess of Jutta

The fate of the tiara since its possession by Jutta is not known. It may have been sold to an unknown collector in Paris while in exile in France. The whereabouts of the tiara was unknown until it appeared at Christie's auction in Geneva in 1981, where it was bought by an anonymous buyer for 280,000 Swiss francs.

Now the location of the real first tiaraunfortunately not known.

Cambridge Lover's Knot 1919

New Cambridge Lover's Knot version 1913

Princess Marie Adelaide, second daughter of Prince Adolf and Princess Augusta of Hesse-Kassel, married Francis, Duke of Teck in 1866. They had four children. The eldest daughter had three sons. The daughter, who was born in 1867, was Princess Victoria Mary of Teck (of Teck), who married Prince George, Duke of York, second in line to the British throne.

In 1901, when Queen Victoria died, she was succeeded by the Prince of Wales and heir to the British throne, Prince Albert Edward, who ascended the throne as King Edward VII.

Prince George is the new Prince of Wales and heir to the British throne.

With the death of King Edward VII in 1910, Prince George ascended the throne as George V, and Princess Victoria Mary of Thek became Queen Consort of the United Kingdom.

In 1913, Maria ordered a new tiara Jewelers E. Wolff & Co jewelry houseGarrards. She wanted the tiara to replicate the famous and missing "love knot" which, as I mentioned at the beginning, belonged to her grandmother Augusta. Tiara was also given the name because of the similarity, Cambridge Lover's Knot.

Decoration consistsof the 19 arches, with 38 tear-shaped pearls, 19 hang like pendants and 19 rise like thorns.

The 19 spike pearls can also be dismantled.Queen Mary wore the new tiara both with and without these spikes, removing and adding vertical pearls as and when she saw fit.

queen b She was a well-known collector of art, gems and jewelry, which enriched the royal collection. she was proud of it and in every possible wayadorned with jewels for official occasions.

She is known to have paid above market value for purchased jewelry of historical and royal origin.

In 1921, she purchased a pearl and diamond tiara, known as the "Vladimir Tiara" (this tiara will be discussed in the next part), once owned by the Grand Duchess Russia - Maria Alexandrovna, which was illegally taken out of Russia along with other jewelry, by a British diplomat in October 1917 during the revolution.

In 1953, Queen Mary dies, having outlived her son George V by a year. In her will, she leftCambridge Lover's Knot to her granddaughter Elizabeth II. So she got into the jewelry collection of Queen Elizabeth II. The tiara became the Queen's favorite jewelry and she often wore it to official events.

Queen Elizabeth II later gave a "love knot" as a wedding gift to Princess Diana (Diana Spencer)when she married Prince Charles of Wales. But on the day of the wedding, Diana did not wear it, preferring the Spencer family jewel - the Spencer tiara, which has been a family heirloom since the 8th century.

The first official event where Diana wore a wedding tiara was the opening of the British Parliament in 1981. After that, Diana wore it to many official events both in the UK and abroad, so the tiara became popular and began to be associated with Princess Diana.

However, after her divorce from Prince Charles, the tiara was returned to Her Majesty.

Once again, the tiara was in the spotlight ahead of the royal wedding of the century - the wedding of Prince William, second in line to the throne, and Kate Middleton on April 29, 2011.

In the United Kingdom, they only talked about the wedding and, in particular, about what tiara Kate would wear to the crown. Designers, journalists, newspaper people, websites, bloggers and even bookmakers have been talking about the tiara. What will adorn the head of Kate Middleton, Duchess of Cambridge, when she walks with her husband, the Duke of Cambridge, Prince William to the altar.

Most of them thought that she would no doubt choose tiara Cambridge Lover's Knot, 1913. The reason for such rumors was the engagement ring donated by William, also that Prince Charles once gave Lady Diana an engagement ring. He said that the late mother does not take part in this event, but thus, giving Kate the same ring, he feels that she is there.Therefore, many assumed that Queen Elizabeth would give the tiara to Kate for the wedding, as it was once given to Diana.

However, in All rumors and conjectures were dispelled when the bride dressed in a wedding dress appeared in public on April 29, 2011.

Kate's veil wore a little-known tiara Cartier 1936 titled "Halo", which was lent to her by Prince William's grandmother, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

"Halo" was made in 1936 and purchased by the Duke of York, Albert Frederick George for the wife of the Duchess of York, Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, later King George V (after abdicatingbrother, King Edward VIII).

Queen Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon subsequently donated diadem to his eldest daughter, Princess Elizabeth (now Queen Elizabeth II), on the occasion of her 18th birthday, April 21, 1944.

Other "love knots" in history

In addition to the two variants of this tiara described, there are several more in history belonging to the royal families of Europe and India.

Most of them belong to the 19th century, during this period this design was very popular.

Here are some of them...

Tiata "Love Knot" Yusupovs

This tiara belonged to Tatyana Aleksandrovna Yusupova (1828-1875), wife of Prince Nikolai Borisovich Yusupov (1827-1891), belonging to an aristocratic family of Russia.

It is this diadem that most resembles Cambridge Lover's Knot: 19 arches, pearl drops also hang like pendants, the same number of pearls are located in the "arches".A distinctive feature of this tiara is the perfect symmetry - symmetrically placed on either side of the middle line of the tiara,pearl droplets are similar in shape and size.Pearls from the centerto both ends of the tiaragradually decreases in size.

The crown is a majestic symbol of the supreme secular (earthly) and spiritual (divine) power, a sign of power, dignity, chosenness, glory and victory.
The “father” of the crown was a wreath placed on the head of the winners of ancient sports, victorious commanders, distinguished Roman legionnaires, or marking the main participants in religious and wedding ceremonies, and the “mother” was a richly decorated headband - a diadem.
In the Middle Ages, not only kings, but also representatives of the landowning nobility had the right to the crown. So, the English viscount wore a crown with 12 pearls; count - with pearls and strawberry leaves; duke - with broad leaves, but without pearls. The duke of royal blood had gold crosses interspersed with lilies on the rim of his crown.

1. This is the "Ruby Burmese Tiara" from the Queen's personal collection.
It was made in 1973 by the court jewelers Garrard & Co, commissioned by the Queen herself.
Stones from the personal collection of Elizabeth II went to her. Rubies are the wedding gift of the Burmese people, which is why the tiara is called Burmese. In Burma, rubies are believed to save a person from illness and trouble. The number of rubies corresponded to the number of diseases that, according to the Burmese, have an effect on the human body.
The design of the tiara is made in the form of a wreath of roses, with rosettes of rubies in the center of each flower and petals of diamonds. These diamonds were also a wedding gift to Elizabeth from Nizami Hyderabad and Berar, who at that time had a huge jewelry collection.

3. Elizabeth II in the diadem of Queen Alexandra "Kokoshnik", which was presented to her in 1888 by Empress Maria Feodorovna. The wedding crown of Empress Alexandra is majestic and elegant, it was traditionally worn at wedding ceremonies along with a precious kokoshnik. Several ancient diamonds of decoration date back to the era of Catherine the Great.
Empress Alexandra herself took part in the work on the creation of jewelry.

The tiara of Grand Duchess Vladimir (Vladimirskaya) belongs to the personal jewelry collection of Queen Elizabeth II. She inherited it from her grandmother Queen Mary after her death in 1953. It got its name from Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna, wife of Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich, third son of Tsar Alexander II and brother of Tsar Alexander III.
Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna commissioned jewelers working at the Russian court to design and manufacture this exquisite tiara in 1890.
In the late 19th century, Russian jewelers preferred to incorporate combinations of diamonds and pearls into their jewelry pieces, such as necklaces, earrings, tiaras and tiaras. It was in vogue at the time. Grand Duchess Vladimir Tiara was conceived and executed in the tradition of the late 19th century and is a combination of
diamonds and pearls.
After the Bolshevik revolution of 1917 in Russia and the upheavals associated with it, Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna the Elder fled with her family to the Caucasus, where she remained until 1920, in the hope of an improvement in the situation, and, nevertheless, fled to Venice on an Italian ship on February 13 1920
The Grand Duchess left her famous jewelry collection, including the Vladimir Tiara, hidden in a safe in the Vladimir Palace in St. Petersburg during her flight. Subsequently, members of the British Secret Intelligence Service, who were friends of Vladimir's family, helped them retrieve the jewels from the safe and then smuggle them out of Russia via the diplomatic pouch.
Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna the Elder died shortly after she settled in the south of France, in August 1920. Her tiara (Vladimir Tiara) was purchased by Queen Mary in 1921 from Princess Elena Vladimirovna, wife of Nicholas of Greece

8. This is the so-called Cambridge tiara. Queen Mary inherited it from her grandmother in 1914 (why only in 1914 is not clear, but it is written that way). Her grandfather was Queen Victoria's uncle the Duke of Cambridge.
Queen Mary, as it were, introduced the order in which this tiara is worn by young heirs to the throne.
Diana received this tiara for her wedding in 1981.

This is an exceptionally beautiful tiara, ornamented with the national emblems of England, Scotland and Ireland, and is probably the most familiar item in Her Majesty the Queen's jewelry collection.
It is known to us by stamps and coins. The diadem was made in 1820 for King George IV by Rundell, Bridge & Co. The tiara is made up of 1,333 diamonds, including a four-carat pale yellow diamond in the center of the front cross. It has been regularly worn by both queens and wives of kings since the queen
Adelaide. The order for its manufacture was transferred to the court jewelry company Rundell in 1820 and was made in May of this year. Perhaps the design of this diadem belongs to the chief artist-jeweler of this company, Philippe Liebart, who at the same time was developing the main state crown for George IV.
The diadem cost 8,216 pounds, of which 800 pounds is the money for renting stones. The diamond was to be returned to the firm after the coronation. At the coronation of Charlotte, this was the case, and even at the coronation of 1837, Victoria also rented stones. Then, perhaps, under Victoria, the stones of the jewelry company were exchanged for old diamonds from the collection of George IV.
Now this diadem is used by Queen Elizabeth II during trips and sometimes for the opening of parliament.

Even Camilla is sometimes given a vilification.

14. Small Diamond Crown of Queen Victoria. Made in 1870. Gold, 1300 diamonds. Located in London. After the death of her husband, Prince Albert, in 1861, the Queen often wore this miniature crown over her widow's veil.

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Chic jewelry is an invariable attribute of the life of crowned persons. Many of these fabulously expensive jewelry have a fascinating history, sometimes several centuries long. Read on for an overview of the most impressive jewels owned by the British Royal Family.

Set with rubies

Prince Albert once bought this necklace, earrings and brooch set for his wife, Queen Victoria. True, then opals flaunted in place of rubies. But the next owner - Queen Alexandra - believed that opals bring bad luck, so she decided to replace them with other stones.

Tiara and necklace with rubies

Another set worn by Elizabeth II was very fond of her mother. She wore a ruby tiara and necklace until her death.

V-shaped necklace and ruby earrings

These jewels belonged to Elizabeth II's grandmother Queen Mary and were presented to her by her husband, George V. Elizabeth received them as a wedding gift from her parents.

Camilla's ruby necklace

The diamond and ruby necklace around the neck of Camilla Parker-Bowles, complete with earrings and bracelet, is a gift from King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia.

Kate's ruby set

Kate is not very fond of massive jewelry, preferring something more modest, but she also has some impressive sets. For example, a necklace, earrings and bracelet with diamonds and rubies from Mouawad. This is a wedding gift, from whom it was not disclosed.

Diana's sapphires

Princess Diana preferred sapphires, and this is one of her favorite sets, a gift from the Saudi royal family.

Choker / headband

The same jewelry set also included a velvet choker with diamonds and sapphires. Diana surprised the press by wearing this jewelry not around her neck, but on her head, as a hair ornament.

Necklace with sapphire

This famous piece of jewelry was given to Diana for her wedding by the Queen Mother (grandmother of Prince Charles). However, back then it was a brooch with an incredible sapphire in the middle surrounded by diamonds. Diana wore the jewelry several times, and then decided to remake it: the brooch became the central part of the pearl necklace.

Earrings with sapphires

The earrings that Diana loved to wear were slightly altered, after which Prince William gave them to his fiancee Catherine.

Elizabeth II sapphires

A sapphire set of necklaces and earrings was given to the queen by her father for her wedding. Later, Elizabeth II added a bracelet and tiara to this set.

Emeralds of the Queen

The emerald tiara is called "Vladimir": the queen acquired it after the jewel was taken out of post-revolutionary Russia. The crown was supplemented with several emeralds that belonged to Elizabeth II. The necklace was created for Queen Mary before a solemn ceremony in India in honor of the beginning of her husband's reign.

Earrings and necklace with emeralds

Among the Queen's emerald jewelry is also a necklace with ten large stones and earrings, which she inherited from Queen Victoria.

Former French First Lady Bernadette Chirac, Queen Elizabeth II and former French President Jacques Chirac. year 2014

Emeralds Kate

These decorations are considered a wedding gift. Apparently, this set is a transformer, from which you can make a necklace, a bracelet, and chandelier earrings.

Necklace/Head Jewelry

With this emerald necklace, Princess Diana pulled the same trick as with the sapphire choker: in the 80s, she wore it as a piece of jewelry on her head.

aquamarines

Among all the stones, aquamarine also enjoys the sympathy of the queen. The massive neck jewelry and earrings were presented to the wedding of Elizabeth II and Prince Philip by the government of Brazil. Subsequently, a tiara with the same stones appeared in the queen's collection.