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Museums and Conference Jewels for Maxima

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Queen Maxima visits an exhibit on Anna Pavlovna at Het Loo (Photo: ROBIN VAN LONKHUIJSEN/AFP/Getty Images)

Queen Maxima has been out and about multiple times already, each time in glittering jewels. Let’s have a look at what she wore, shall we?

Photo: OLAF KRAAK/AFP/Getty Images

On Monday, Willem-Alexander and Maxima visited the Aboriginal Art Museum in Utrecht. Maxima wore a familiar diamond bracelets — which features her family’s initials, plus various symbols — with her gorgeous diamond and tanzanite earrings.

Photo: OLAF KRAAK/AFP/Getty Images

Here’s another look at her jewelry at the museum. The visit was designed as part of the royal couple’s preparation for an upcoming visit to Australia and New Zealand.

Photo: LEX VAN LIESHOUT/AFP/Getty Images

Maxima traveled to Rotterdam on Tuesday for a conference on nursing care for the elderly.

Photo: LEX VAN LIESHOUT/AFP/Getty Images

Maxima wore pearly floral earrings for the conference…

Photo: LEX VAN LIESHOUT/AFP/Getty Images

…which you can see in more detail here.

Photo: LEX VAN LIESHOUT/AFP/Getty Images

For the bracelet-and-ring lovers among you, here’s a look at Maxima’s selections for the day. She wore a pearly bracelet on her right wrist, plus her family initial bracelet. You also get a good look here at her wedding and engagement rings.

Photo: ROBIN VAN LONKHUIJSEN/AFP/Getty Images

On Wednesday, Maxima headed to the museum at Het Loo Palace in Apeldoorn, where she attended the opening of an exhibit about Queen Anna Pavlovna. How’s this for uncharacteristic? Maxima didn’t wear earrings for this visit. You can just see a stack of gem-studded bracelets above her watch.

She didn’t totally leave the jewels at home, though. You get a glimpse in the tweeted images above of a giant cocktail ring on Maxima’s right hand. Anna Pavlovna would definitely approve!

Mathilde Sparkles in Surrealist Paris

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Queen Mathilde views the Magritte exhibition in Paris (Photo: MARTIN BUREAU/AFP/Getty Images)

Queen Mathilde of the Belgians is in Paris today, attending an exhibition dedicated to the Belgian surrealist painter Rene Magritte at the Centre Pompidou. For the occasion, she wore one of her most interesting brooches: a large diamond and pearl piece.

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Mathilde debuted this diamond and pearl brooch last year on her birthday. (Possibly a birthday gift? We don’t really know.) She’s worn it a number of times since, both as a brooch and as a hair ornament. For this museum visit, she paired it with classic diamond and pearl earrings.

Photo: Thierry Chesnot/Getty Images

Here’s a pretty decent close-up of the piece. You can clearly see here that each end consists of delicate, lacy fan motifs, and that a single pearl is set at each end of the brooch. You can also see that the largest (and loveliest) stone in the piece is the round diamond set right in the center.