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The Best Royal Jewels of 2016: #3 (Victoria’s Nobel Splendor)

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We’re getting close to the top of our year in review countdown! Catch up on any posts you missed over here…
#3: Victoria’s Nobel Splendor
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The annual Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm is always one of the most exciting events of the year for royal jewel lovers, and this year, Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden gave us a tour-de-force jewel performance.

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Victoria wore an unusual diadem, the large Napoleonic Cut-Steel Tiara, which manages to sparkle mightily without a single diamond.
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The real virtuoso decision, though, was the pairing of the steel tiara with other jewels from the same era: pieces from the Cameo Parure. Add in a glorious gown with metallic embroidery, and you’ve got a truly remarkable jewelry moment! (See even more photos from the event over here!)

The Best Royal Jewels of 2016: #4 (Silvia’s German Jewels)

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We’re getting in to some really amazing jewels now! Our countdown continues with the fourth best bejeweled appearance of the year … if you missed any of the previous posts, catch up here!

#4: Silvia’s German Jewels
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For a dinner at Charlottenburg Palace in Berlin this October, Queen Silvia of Sweden wore two major pieces of royal jewelry with German roots. (Here’s our post on the event.)

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On her head, she perched the Baden Fringe Tiara. In recent years, the tiara has been worn almost exclusively by Crown Princess Victoria. But this was a very good choice for a dinner in Germany, as the tiara originally belonged to Queen Victoria of Sweden, who was born Princess Victoria of Baden.
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But the best part of this bejeweled appearance wasn’t even the tiara; it was the brooch! This is another piece of jewelry from Victoria of Baden’s collection, and this was the first time we saw Silvia wear it in public. How unimaginably vast is the Bernadotte collection, when the women of the family can regularly pop on jewels that haven’t been seen in decades or even centuries? (You can see a close-up of the brooch + photos of Victoria wearing it over here!)

The Best Royal Jewels of 2016: #5 (Maxima’s Wellington Sparkle)

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Our countdown of the best royal jewels of 2016 is at the halfway mark! Catch up on previous posts in the series over here!
#5: Maxima’s Wellington Sparkle
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During a state visit to New Zealand in November, Queen Maxima of the Netherlands pulled out all of the sparkling stops for a state dinner in Wellington.

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Although the dinner was black tie, Maxima wore Queen Emma’s Diamond Tiara, pairing it with Queen Wilhelmina’s diamond earrings and diamond scroll brooch. She also added her own diamond wedding and family initial bracelets.

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Maxima attended numerous glittering events in 2016, but for me, this was her best bejeweled appearance by far! (More from this event over here.)