Grand Duchess Alexandra Georgievna of Russia, born Princess Alexandra of Greece and Denmark, wears a diamond fringe tiara backed by a fabric kokoshnik in an official court portrait, ca. 1890; the diamond fringe may be the same one that was later worn by her widower’s second wife, Princess Olga Paley, and which was confiscated by the government after the revolution

Queen Olga of the Hellenes wears her Ruby Olive Wreath Tiara with pearls and pieces from the accompanying ruby parure in this detail from a portrait by Laurits Tuxen, ca. 1914; read more about the tiara here!