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Source: https://www.thenaturalsap...pphire-tiaras-of-all-timeGeorge VI Victorian Suite Tiara  When Queen Elizabeth II was married in 1947, her father, King George VI, gifted her with the George VI Victorian Suite, a jewelry set consisting of a magnificent necklace and earrings composed of blue sapphires surrounded by diamonds. In 1963, the Queen commissioned a tiara and bracelet to match, which equaled in grandeur the decadent design of the set and the quality of the gemstones. The tiara is reportedly made from a necklace that originally belonged to Princess Louise of Belgium. Perhaps Elizabeth will bequeath her beautiful parure to the new princess, since she would be the next potential queen.
The Leuchtenberg Sapphire Parure Tiara  The creation of the Leuchtenberg Sapphire Parure is attributed to Marie-Étienne Nitot, the official jeweler to Emperor Napoléon I and founder of the House of Chaumet. The blue sapphires used in the set are believed to have been a wedding gift from the Emperor to Princess Augusta of Bavaria, Duchess of Leuchtenberg, when she married in 1806 his stepson, Eugène de Beauharnais, from the first marriage of his wife, Empress Joséphine. In her will, Princess Augusta is said to have left the sapphires to her eldest daughter Joséphine, who married King Oscar I of Sweden and Norway. Today, the parure is Queen Silvia of Sweden’s signature set of jewels.
The parure is considered one of the most beautiful displays ever of jewelry craftsmanship and also one of the most complete, containing a tiara, necklace, earrings, brooch and four hairpins, two of which have been incorporated into earrings since the original earrings were supposedly separated from the set. The tiara itself consists of 11 separate sections, which means it can be worn in virtually any form, from a diadem to a crown, and adjusted to perfectly fit the shape of the wearer’s head. The tiara showcases 11 large, rectangular-shaped deep-blue sapphires set on a base of honeysuckles and leaves crafted from 11 oval-shaped diamonds and hundreds of smaller diamonds. As another testament to its remarkable design, the sapphires can be switched out for other gemstones. We can certainly see the new princess favoring a transformable tiara such as this that can travel the world and be worn to a variety of social events.The Dutch Sapphire Tiara  Purchased in 1881 by King Willem III of the Netherlands for his wife, Queen Emma, the Dutch Sapphire Tiara is utterly extravagant. Featuring 33 blue sapphires and 655 diamonds, set in platinum, the tiara resembles the Gothic architecture of a great cathedral with sparkling stained glass windows. Several of the stones are also mounted en tremblant, meaning they’re attached to a trembler, or a material that acts like a spring, to create movement when worn and reflect the surrounding light. A necklace, two bracelets and a brooch were later added to create a parure. Queen Máxima of the Netherlands recently streamlined the tiara, redesigning the central diamond element for a more modern look the new princess might wish to emulate as she comes of age.Queen Victoria’s Sapphire Coronet  Perhaps what makes Queen Victoria’s Sapphire Coronet so special is that Victoria’s husband, Prince Albert, with whom she was very much in love, designed it for her. In fact, the petite coronet was reportedly one of the only pieces Queen Victoria decided was appropriate to wear during her widowhood. Most likely commissioned from Joseph Kitching in 1842, the coronet features a flexible Gothic design with both cushion- and kite-shaped blue sapphires set in yellow gold, as well as diamonds set in silver, for a less ostentatious look the new princess might prefer. The coronet passed on to Princess Mary, who was given the coronet, along with a matching parure, as a wedding gift from her father, King George V, Victoria’s grandson. It was reportedly last seen in 2002 at an exhibit at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.Queen Marie-Amélie’s Sapphire And Diamond Parure Tiara  “Perfect” is how the craftsmanship is described for Queen Marie-Amélie’s Sapphire and Diamond Parure. Most likely the original property of Empress Joséphine, wife of Emperor Napoléon I, it entered the collection of Queen Marie-Amélie de Bourbon when Hortense de Beauharnais, Joséphine’s daughter, sold it in 1821 to the Queen’s husband, King Louis-Philippe of France. The parure remained within the royal French family until they sold it to the Louvre in 1985. The parure’s tiara is exquisite, featuring large blue sapphires from Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) and diamonds set in white gold, with pieces that can be worn independently as brooches. At some point, the tiara was reduced in size, and is displayed in the museum along with the parure’s matching necklace of large oval-shaped blue sapphires encircled with diamonds and separated by articulated diamond “strings,” earrings, one large brooch and a pair of smaller brooches.Queen Marie-Amélie’s Sapphire, Diamond And Pearl Parure Tiara Queen Marie-Amélie had a second sapphire parure, which included diamonds as well as pearls. Created for her by French royal jeweler Bapst from existing jewels in her collection, the tiara features seven oval-shaped blue sapphires said to be of Sri Lankan origin with graduated-diamond surrounds atop diamond festoons accented with pearls and blue sapphires. The parure also includes earrings, three brooches (including two epaulette brooches) and a belt buckle or the center plaque of a bracelet. Like the Queen’s sapphire and diamond parure, this one remained within the French royal family until it was sold in the 1990s. The setting of the blue sapphires and diamonds in both of Marie-Amélie’s tiaras closely resemble Kate Middleton’s engagement ring, first given to Princess Diana of Wales, a natural design choice for the new princess to honor both her mother and grandmother.The Barberini Sapphire Parure Tiara The Barberini Sapphire Parure, with its free-form floral motif, offers a refreshing design change from the more architectural pieces. Belonging first to the Barberini family of Italian nobility, which rose to prominence in the 17th century, the matching set includes a blue sapphire and diamond tiara, necklace, girandole earrings and brooch. The tiara, which dates from around 1850, resembles a wreath of flowers composed of a rose-cut diamond branch blossoming with old-cut diamond flowers and collet-set blue sapphire centers and buds set in gold and silver. It has a light and airy quality that’s feminine and romantic, just what you would expect the new princess to fancy. The parure was reportedly last sold at auction in four separate pieces for a combined total of $250,000, of which $100,144 was for the tiara alone. The young princess is sure to love the playfulness of this tiara.The Nassau Tiara  The Grand Duchess Adelaide Tiara is said to have been part of the trousseau of Princess Adelheid-Marie of Anhalt-Dessau, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, the second wife of Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, who ruled Luxembourg from 1890–1905. It’s most closely associated with her granddaughter, Grand Duchess Marie-Adélaïde, who favored the tiara when sitting for photographs or paintings during her reign from 1912–1919. Created between 1865 and 1870, the tiara features a large cushion-shaped blue sapphire at the center, which can be removed and worn separately. Surrounding the sapphire is a leaf-and-berry motif crafted from brilliant- and rose-cut diamonds set in white and yellow gold. Two loops at the base of the tiara can attach an additional element. The tiara passed on to Marie-Adélaïde’s sister and successor, Grand Duchess Charlotte, and has since been seen on Maria Teresa, the current Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, her daughter-in-law, Princess Tessy of Luxembourg and Princess Stephanie. The new princesses might appreciate the timeless design of a tiara such as this, which has been beloved by the Luxembourg royal family for more than a century.The Océan Tiara  The newest sapphire tiara among our list of favorites is the Océan Tiara, commissioned by Prince Albert II of Monaco as one of several wedding gifts for his new bride, Princess Charlene Wittstock. Created by renowned jeweler Van Cleef & Arpels, the tiara pays homage to Charlene’s South African heritage as well as her status as an Olympic swimmer. Its design features a sea-spume motif fashioned from more than 850 diamonds of the highest quality and 359 sapphires in graduated shades of blue evoking the different seas of the world, from the waters off the coast of Monaco to the ocean around South Africa. To crown the work, 11 pear-shaped diamonds represent water droplets. The largest of these, at more than four carats, is of incomparable beauty, with D color and an internally flawless clarity. What’s even more remarkable about this piece is that the tiara doubles as a necklace and also features removable elements that can be worn separately. We would love for the new princess to have a custom tiara such as this to match her unique personality.Maria Feodorovna’s Sapphire Bandeau  In the style of the Grand Duchess Adelaide Tiara, Maria Feodorovna’s Sapphire Bandeau is grand but not too lavish, featuring a starburst pattern of diamond rays radiating from a central blue sapphire. Some say the tiara originally belonged to Maria Feodorovna, Princess Dagmar of Denmark, the wife of Alexander III, who was Emperor of Russia, King of Poland and Grand Prince of Finland from 1881–1894. The Empress had a vast collection of jewelry that dispersed after her death, so if the tiara belonged to her, perhaps that’s how it fell into the possession of Queen Mary, wife of King George V of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 1910–1936. Mary left the tiara to Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, who often gave it to her daughter Princess Margaret to wear. While Queen Elizabeth has never worn this tiara in public, as part of the jewels owned personally by the monarchy of the United Kingdom, perhaps the new princess will delight us by wearing it.
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Source:https://www.thecourtjewel...utch-royal-sapphires.htmlWhile the royals own sapphire jewelry in their personal collections, today we’re focusing mainly on the family’s two grand sapphire parures and the jewels worn to accompany them. The first of these is Queen Emma’s Sapphire Parure, with its distinctive and lovely cathedral-like tiara. This is a married parure, made around 1881. It originally included a tiara, a choker-style necklace, a large brooch with a curving bow design, and a pair of matching large bracelets. (For reference, I’ll be calling these pieces Queen Emma’s Sapphire Tiara, Queen Emma’s Sapphire Necklace, Queen Emma’s Sapphire Bow Brooch, and Queen Emma’s Sapphire Bracelets.)
In the portrait above, taken around 1900, Queen Emma wears all four major parts of the set: the tiara, necklace, stomacher, and bracelets. To the necklace, she has also added another jewel: an oval-shaped diamond and sapphire pendant. The pendant, which can also be worn as a brooch, was Emma’s engagement gift from her future husband, King Willem III, in 1879. (We’ll simply call it Queen Emma’s Engagement Pendant here.) There’s also an additional bracelet added on her left wrist, plus a long diamond riviere stretched across the bodice of her gown.Here’s another look at Queen Emma’s Engagement Pendant, worn suspended from a diamond bow brooch by Queen Beatrix on Prinsjesdag in September 1981. Juliana, 1937 Queen Emma left the parure to her granddaughter, Queen Juliana, who placed it in the family’s jewelry foundation. (That’s where virtually all of the jewels featured in this post reside now.) Juliana wore her grandmother’s sapphires for this striking portrait, taken by Franz Ziegler in 1937. All of the major pieces from Queen Emma’s Sapphire Parure are included here: her tiara (which had been refurbished), her necklace (which had been lengthened), her bow brooch, and one of her bracelets. With one exception — the necklace — all of these jewels are still worn in this form today.Beatrix 2014 In recent years, Queen Emma’s Sapphire Necklace has been altered to make a completely different jewel: the Dutch Sapphire Necklace Tiara. The base of the piece matches the design of Queen Emma’s original necklace, but it’s also been supplemented by lozenge elements taken from a necklace that belonged to the other major Dutch royal sapphire suite: Queen Wilhelmina’s Wedding Gift Parure.Wilhelmina, ca. 1901 As the name suggests, Queen Wilhelmina’s Wedding Gift Parure was the national wedding present from the people of the Netherlands to Queen Wilhelmina in 1901. The set featured a towering diamond and sapphire tiara, a mirrored sapphire and diamond necklace, and a pair of sapphire and diamond bracelets. (We’ll refer to these in the rest of the post simply as Queen Wilhelmina’s Sapphire Tiara, Queen Wilhelmina’s Sapphire Necklace, and Queen Wilhelmina’s Sapphire Bracelets.)
Wilhelmina often also wore the set with a large diamond bow brooch with a rectangular sapphire in the center; it too was made around 1900, and could be worn with a sapphire pendant drop. (We’ll call it Queen Wilhelmina’s Sapphire Bow Brooch.) In the formal portrait above, a young Wilhelmina wears her tiara and necklace with her bow brooch.Wilhelmina, ca. 1930s This portrait shows Queen Wilhelmina wearing her sapphire parure three decades later, in the 1930s. You’ll note her tiara, necklace, and one of the bracelets, as well as her bow brooch. The bracelets are the only part of the parure which are still worn today (albeit in a slightly altered form). As mentioned above, parts of Queen Wilhelmina’s Sapphire Necklace were used to make the new Dutch Sapphire Necklace Tiara. Queen Wilhelmina’s Sapphire Tiara was also dismantled, and the gems were used to make other pieces of jewelry, including earrings and brooches.Maxima, 2016 Here’s one of the pairs of earrings made from Queen Wilhelmina’s Sapphire Tiara: the Sapphire Figure Eight Earrings. Queen Maxima wore them above on Prinsjesdag in September 2016.Laurentien, 2013  Princess Laurentien wore the Sapphire Figure Eight Earrings on Prinsjesdag in September 2013. She paired them with Queen Emma’s Engagement Pendant, worn as a standalone brooch.Maxima, 2016 For Prinsjesdag in 2016, Queen Maxima also wore Queen Wilhelmina’s Sapphire Bow Brooch, with its distinctive rectangular sapphire center.Maxima, 2013 And here’s another pair of earrings made from Queen Wilhelmina’s Sapphire Tiara: the Diamond Cluster and Sapphire Drop Earrings, most famously worn in recent years by Queen Maxima during King Willem-Alexander’s inauguration in April 2013.Maxima, 2013 On that occasion, Queen Maxima wore a smaller setting of Queen Emma’s Sapphire Tiara, as well as a large oval sapphire and diamond cluster suspended from a diamond bow. The provenance of the brooch is apparently uncertain, though the large sapphire certainly resembles the one in Queen Emma’s Sapphire Stomacher. (This diamond bow is the same one used above by Queen Beatrix with Queen Emma’s Engagement Pendant.)Beatrix, 2013  Princess Beatrix also wore sapphires for her son’s inauguration in April 2013. Her sapphire earrings are personally owned, but she also wore Queen Wilhelmina’s Sapphire Bracelets, as well as the family’s Round Sapphire and Diamond Brooch. This brooch, which dates to the 1930s, was apparently originally set with an emerald. Maxima, 2010 In April 2010, Princess Maxima wore the Round Sapphire and Diamond Brooch (with the family’s sapphire pendant, used on both Queen Emma’s Sapphire Bow Brooch and Queen Wilhelmina’s Sapphire Bow Brooch) for a gala in honor of the 70th birthday of Queen Margrethe II of Denmark. She also wore the Dutch Sapphire Necklace Tiara, the Sapphire Figure Eight Earrings, and Queen Wilhelmina’s Sapphire Bracelets.Maxima, 2015 Queen Maxima has been the primary wearer of the family’s heirloom sapphires in recent years. In March 2015, she wore the full setting of Queen Emma’s Sapphire Tiara, plus the Diamond Cluster and Sapphire Drop Earrings, for a banquet in Copenhagen during the Danish state visit. On that occasion, she also wore the oval sapphire pendant suspended from a diamond and sapphire wing ornament.Maxima, 2017 In Oslo in May 2017, she wore Queen Emma’s Sapphire Tiara again, as well as Queen Emma’s Sapphire Bow Brooch, for the 80th birthday celebrations for King Harald V and Queen Sonja of Norway. She also wore the Sapphire Figure Eight Earrings. Maxima, 2017 She finished off the look with both of Queen Emma’s Sapphire Bracelets — which means that she was wearing all three remaining components of Queen Emma’s married parure of sapphires. Maxima, 2017 For the second birthday celebration dinner during the Oslo trip, Maxima wore even more heirloom sapphires. With Queen Wilhelmina’s Sapphire Bow Brooch, she wore the sapphire setting of the family’s Diamond Trellis Necklace. (The necklace, made around 1900, was Queen Emma’s wedding present to her daughter, Queen Wilhelmina.) And, just to make things even more interesting, she made an unexpected earring choice — wearing the long earrings from the Mellerio Ruby Parure with sapphire drops in place of their usual diamond and ruby clusters. Seriously: is any other royal family more innovative with their jewels than the Dutch royals
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A regular wedding gift from your Romanov uncle was a large sapphire brooch. Princess Michael of Kent has one, handed down through several generations, and I think Marie Bonaparte received one when she married George of Greece. Alexandrina of Mecklenburg had one, too, didn't she? I love 'em all!
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If you were handing these out like end-of-term prizes, I wouldn't mind taking home the tiara Max wore for the non-coronation coronation. Now THAT'S a queen's tiara!
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Queen Alexandrine's sapphire diademhttps://royal-magazin.de/...dem-denmark-royal-jewels/Queen Alexandrine’s sapphire diadem was bought in 2018 by an unknown at auction in Denmark. Now it turns out that it was probably Queen Margrethe who was the buyer.The sapphire diadem, which was sold at auction almost four years ago, now appears in the Queen’s jewelery collection.
In the broadcast „Dronningens Skatkammer“ on DR1, a secret is revealed.
Namely who in 2018 bought the Danish-Russian sapphire diadem. There are many indications that it was Queen Margrethe herself. And that will please many Danes.
In the program „Dronningens Skatkammer“ you see the special diamond and sapphire tiara being exhibited together with numerous royal jewelery in „Kongernes Samling“ at Koldinghus.
The three countesses had inherited the historic Danish-Russian diadem from their mother, Countess Anne Dorte, and in December 2018 they sold the expensive diadem for two million kroner at the auction.
There were many Danes who at the time believed that the precious jewelry belonged in Denmark, and with the Danish royal family. And much now it seems that Queen Margrethe meant it too.
The three countesses of Rosenborg, Josephine, Camilla and Feodora, who had inherited the jewelry from their father, Count Christian of Rosenborg and mother, Countess Anne Dorte, sold the tiara.
The Russian sapphire diadem was originally a gift from Tsar Nikolai II and Zaritsa Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia to Princess Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin at her wedding to the Danish prince Christian’s wedding in Cannes in the spring of 1898.
The royal couple themselves passed the jewelery on in 1933 to their daughter-in-law, Crown Princess Caroline-Mathilde, at her wedding in Fredensborg Castle Church with the king’s youngest son, Crown Prince Knud.
It was he and his sons who lost the right to inherit the throne when a new succession law was passed in 2953, because his older brother, Frederik X „only“ had three daughters, Margrethe, Benedikte and Anne-Marie.
After Caroline-Mathilde’s death in 1995, the youngest of her children, her son Count Christian of Rosenborg and his family inherited diadem, and they have kept the jewelry until it was sold in 2018.
The first episode of the TV series „Dronningens Skatkammer“, where you see the sapphire diadem, was shown on DR1 Tuesday 12 April. But can also be seen on DRTV.https://www.thecourtjewel...nes-russian-sapphire.html The tiara, which is generally attributed to Bolin, was given by Emperor Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra of Russia to an imperial cousin, Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, when she married another cousin, the future King Christian X of Denmark, in 1898. The piece was originally a convertible bandeau. In 1933, Alexandrine gave the jewel to her daughter-in-law, Princess Caroline-Mathilde, who wears it in its original bandeau form above. In the 1960s, Caroline-Mathilde commissioned alterations to the bandeau, having it transformed into a more traditional tiara. She bequeathed the new version of the sparkler to her son, Count Christian of Rosenborg, and it was subsequently worn by his wife, Countess Anne-Dorte.
After the death of Countess Anne-Dorte in 2014, the tiara was inherited by her daughters, Countess Josephine, Countess Camilla, and Countess Feodora of Rosenborg. They decided to sell the tiara. Bruun Rasmussen auctioned the diadem in 2018, and when the hammer fell, the piece sold for the top of its estimate: two million kroner, or about $290,000.
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https://www.thecourtjewel...otlight-danish-royal.html  Most of Denmark’s royal sapphires come from a fairly recent source: Queen Alexandrine, the grandmother of Queen Margrethe II. Through her marriage to King Christian X of Denmark, Alexandrine was queen consort from 1912 until her husband’s death in 1947. She was born a Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, but she had grander imperial roots: her mother was a Romanov grand duchess. Many of Alexandrine’s jewels, including at least some of her sapphires, had Russian origins. In the portrait above, she wears her diamond fringe tiara with her grand sapphire and diamond corsage ornament. Queen Alexandrine’s diamond and sapphire stomacher was later broken up to make a demi-parure of sapphire and diamond jewels. The set, which now belongs to Queen Margrethe II, includes a necklace, earrings, and a brooch. Above, she wears the necklace and earrings during King Harald V of Norway’s Silver Jubilee in January 2016. The suite is also versatile and adaptable, and Margrethe often plays around with different configurations, wearing some of the pieces as hair pins and attaching a marquise-shaped pendant to the brooch. She also frequently wears a sapphire ring with the set. Here’s a look at the necklace with that extra pendant attached. Queen Margrethe wore it this way in May 2012 for a special occasion: a dinner for foreign sovereigns to commemorate Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom’s Diamond Jubilee at Buckingham Palace. And here’s one more view of the sapphires with the same daisy dress, worn in Germany in June 2011 for the wedding of her niece, Princess Nathalie of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg. Queen Alexandrine also had a striking diamond and sapphire tiara. Made by Bolin in 1898, the jewel was a wedding gift from Alexandrine’s Russian cousins, Emperor Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra. Though some of Alexandrine’s sapphires remain with the main line of the Danish royal family today, this tiara took a different path. Queen Alexandrine gave it as a wedding present to her new daughter-in-law, Princess Caroline-Mathilde, in 1933. She was the wife of Hereditary Prince Knud, the younger brother of King Frederik IX. Knud and Caroline-Mathilde’s descendants owned the tiara until 2018, when they sold it at auction. Happily, though, it’s still in Copenhagen, on display at the museum at Amalienborg Palace. One more sapphire jewel from Queen Alexandrine’s collection, her diamond and sapphire pendant, remains with the royal family today. The piece is often worn as both a brooch and a pendant by Princess Marie, Queen Margrethe’s daughter-in-law. Above, she wears it suspended from a delicate chain during the celebrations for Queen Margrethe’s 70th birthday in April 2010. Princess Marie also recently added two more sapphire pieces to her personal jewelry collection. She helped design the Nuits Claires Tiara, as well as its coordinating ring, with jewelers from Maison Mauboussin. The set includes sapphires sprinkled throughout, including a large pear-shaped Ceylon sapphire in the center of the tiara. Marie debuted the set, which she has use of through an exclusive long-term loan from the jeweler, during the French state visit to Denmark in August 2018. There’s one more Danish royal sapphire tiara that (at least until recently) resided with a cadet branch of the family. Princess Thyra’s Sapphire Tiara, originally owned by Queen Alexandrine’s sister-in-law, Princess Thyra, was likely made in the early twentieth century. Princess Thyra left it to Princess Caroline-Mathilde (with of Hereditary Prince Knud, who also received Queen Alexandrine’s Sapphire Tiara). Until a few years ago, the tiara was worn by Caroline-Mathilde’s daughter, Princess Elisabeth of Denmark. (Above, Elisabeth wears the tiara during Queen Margrethe II’s Ruby Jubilee festivities in January 2012.) She passed away in 2018, and we don’t yet know the fate of this family heirloom. Princess Thyra also had a gorgeous oval-shaped diamond and sapphire brooch. She bequeathed the jewel to Queen Ingrid, wife of her nephew, King Frederik IX. Today, the piece is worn by Ingrid’s daughter, Princess Benedikte, who uses it as both a brooch and a pendant. Above, she wears the jewel suspended from a diamond riviere during the celebrations for Queen Margrethe’s 70th birthday in April 2010. Queen Margrethe’s collection includes some significant sapphire brooches, too. This diamond and sapphire fleur-de-lis brooch was worn by Queen Ingrid and is now used by Queen Margrethe. She usually wears the piece as a brooch, but on the occasion above (the wedding of her nephew, Prince Nikolaos of Greece and Denmark, in August 2010), she wore it as an enhancer on a pearl necklace. Queen Margrethe also often wears a stunning diamond and sapphire anchor brooch. This brooch doesn’t appear to have a documented provenance, though a similar one was owned by Queen Alexandrine (and was inherited by Princess Elisabeth). Above, Margrethe wears the brooch during a visit to South Korea in October 2007. One of the most beautiful and sentimental sapphires in the Danish royal collection currently belongs to Crown Princess Mary. The Connaught Sapphire Brooch, made of diamonds, pearls, and a large sapphire, originally belonged to the Duchess of Connaught. It was inherited by her daughter, Crown Princess Margareta of Sweden, and then traveled to Denmark with her daughter, Queen Ingrid. Queen Margrethe inherited the brooch from her mother. In 2006, she gave it to her daughter-in-law, Crown Princess Mary, as a present to mark the birth of Prince Christian. Mary wore it for the christenings of both Prince Christian in January 2006 and Prince Vincent and Princess Isabella in April 2011. She also wears the jewel for more general occasions, too.
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Ugh. I want to send Marge some Crest Whitestrips. I'd also like to send some to Willem Alexander.
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