Sparkling Royal Jewels From Around the World
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| The Luxembourg Aquamarine Bandeau (Photo: Andreas Rentz/Getty Images) |
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| Princess Margaretha wears the Luxembourg Aquamarine Bandeau (Photo: NICOLAS LAMBERT/AFP/Getty Images) |
The tiara vaults of the grand ducal family of Luxembourg are massive, but a number of those diadems are remarkably petite. Today’s tiara — one of the grand ducal family’s many twentieth-century jewel treasures — is one of these smaller sparklers, a bandeau made of diamonds and aquamarines.
The piece is made of large aquamarines interspersed with crisscrossed rows of diamonds. It was made as a part of a demi-parure of aquamarine jewels for the late Grand Duchess Joséphine-Charlotte; the set also includes earrings and a necklace. Joséphine-Charlotte was photographed wearing the bandeau low across her forehead, just as her mother, Queen Astrid of the Belgians, once wore her bandeaux. Marie-Astrid, Joséphine-Charlotte’s daughter, was also pictured wearing the aquamarine bandeau in this manner.
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| Grand Duchess Maria Teresa wears the tiara (Photo: Sean Gallup/Getty Images) |
Other members of the family have chosen to wear the tiara more traditionally. The current grand duchess, Maria Teresa, has worn the tiara on multiple occasions, including at the glittering wedding of Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark in 2004.
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| Princess Margaretha wears the tiara (Photo: Andreas Rentz/Getty Images) |
Princess Margaretha of Liechtenstein (née of Luxembourg) wore her mother’s aquamarine set at another major wedding: that of the grand duchy’s future reigning couple, Hereditary Grand Duke Guillaume and Hereditary Grand Duchess Stéphanie, in 2012. As the Hereditary Grand Duchess has been steadily working her way through the many tiaras in the Nassau family vaults, I think it’s only a matter of time before we see her wearing the tiara, too.
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7. On Tuesday, the Duchess of Cornwall visited the new Poppy Pod Village in Brockenhurst, which provides accommodations for service personnel and their families. Appropriately, she wore the cap badge of The Rifles (a British army infantry regiment — she’s the Royal Colonel of the 4th Battalion) for the occasion.
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6. Pearls were the jewelry pick of the day for Camilla at the Sandringham Flower Show on Wednesday.
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5. Queen Letizia of Spain wore her Tous ruby, emerald, and moonstone earrings at the opening of the International Music School Summer Courses in Oviedo on Friday.
4. On Wednesday, Letizia debuted a new pair of gold leaf earrings by Oscar de la Renta at the Cervantes Institute in Madrid.
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3. And we also had another first look at a new pair of earrings from Letizia on Tuesday: Carolina Herrera’s “Falling Jasmine” earrings. See more, including a good close-up, over here!
2. Hereditary Princess Sophie of Liechtenstein paired dangly earrings with a lovely one-shouldered Grecian gown at the International Salzburg Association on Wednesday.
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1. But really, who else could get this week’s top spot? Princess Charlene of Monaco’s incredible diamonds stole the show at this year’s Red Cross Gala. See more pictures, including close-ups of her earrings and her gorgeous diamond bracelet, over here!