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This Week in Royal Jewels: June 30-July 6

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June 30-July 6, 2017
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10. The Duchess of Cambridge wore earrings from Oscar de la Renta during her first visit to Wimbledon since becoming patron. (More over here!)

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9. The Princess Royal is on an official visit to China this week; she wore golden jewels, including an equine brooch, during a visit to the Forbidden City in Beijing on Tuesday.
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8. In Norway, Princess Martha Louise wore a dramatic pair of double hoop earrings to celebrate her mother’s 80th birthday on Tuesday.
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7. The birthday girl herself, Queen Sonja of Norway, wore blue jewelry — including a dragonfly brooch — for her 80th birthday celebrations in Oslo.
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6. Queen Letizia of Spain was radiant in moonstone earrings by Tous for audiences at the Zarzuela Palace in Madrid on Wednesday.
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5. In Oostende, Queen Mathilde of the Belgians wore pearl drop earrings with a geometric stud during a visit to the Mercator sailing ship on Saturday.
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4. Princess Sirivannavari Nariratana, daughter of the King of Thailand, wore loads of sparkling jewelry as she posed for press outside the Chanel fashion show in Paris on Tuesday. (For more jewels from Sirivannavari this week, visit us on Instagram!)
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3. During a garden party at the Palace of Holyroodhouse on Tuesday, Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom wore her late mother’s Centenary Rose Brooch. (More over here!)
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2. Queen Saleha, wife and queen consort of the Sultan of Brunei, wore glittering diamonds during a state visit to Singapore on Wednesday.
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1. For an audience with Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau in Edinburgh on Wednesday, Queen Elizabeth II wore her most Canadian brooch: the Diamond Maple Leaf. She also donned the maple leaf in a new official portrait released on Canada Day. (More on the audience here; see the portrait over here!)

Jewels of Holyrood Week

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The Queen is in Scotland for her annual week-in-residence at the Palace of Holyroodhouse, the official residence of the British monarch in Edinburgh. Here’s a look at the jewels she wore during the first three days of Holyrood Week.

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On Monday, the Queen attended the traditional Ceremony of the Keys at Holyroodhouse, where she inspected the guard of honor, Balaklava Company, The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 5th Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland.

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For the engagement, she wore a jewel-encrusted military badge. This is the cap badge of the Royal Regiment of Scotland. HM is their Colonel-in-Chief.

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The Duke of Edinburgh accompanied the Queen to a garden party at Holyroodhouse on Tuesday. As you can see above, the Duke of York also attended, as did Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon. Andrew’s regular presence with his parents these days seems like something akin to job shadowing, as I expect him to accompany his mother on many of her engagements after his father’s retirement later this year.

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For the garden party, the Queen wore the Centenary Rose Brooch, which she gave to her late mother, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, in honor of the latter’s hundredth birthday. When the Queen Mother died less than two years later, the Queen inherited the brooch.

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Here’s a closer look at the brooch. The rose on the brooch is hand-painted on a rock crystal background, and the frame is set with exactly 100 diamonds. The piece was made by Harry Collins.

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The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh visited Stirling and Falkirk on Wednesday, stopping by to see a new section of the Queen Elizabeth II Canal, built as part of the Helix project, which features the internationally-acclaimed Kelpies sculptures.

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The Queen wore two military badges for the engagements. She repeated the cap badge of the Royal Regiment of Scotland from earlier in the week, supplementing it with the cap badge of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, which was headquartered at Stirling Castle until 2006.

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Also on Wednesday, the Queen had an audience at Holyroodhouse with her Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau.

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Trudeau stopped over in Scotland to visit with the Queen before heading on to this week’s G20 summit in Hamburg.

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The Queen wore a brooch that many had expected to see on the Duchess of Cornwall during last week’s Canadian tour: the Diamond Maple Leaf Brooch, which belonged to the late Queen Mother. (You can read more about the brooch over here!)