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This Week in Royal Jewels: September 13-19

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September 13-19, 2019
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30. Queen Letizia of Spain chose her Double Dagger earrings from Gold and Roses for the opening of a scholarship course in Torrejoncillo on Tuesday.

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29. For the WICT Leadership Conference and Touchstones Luncheon in New York on Tuesday, Princess Beatrice of York wore her Juste un Clou bracelet from Cartier.
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28. A delicate, traditional necklace was Princess Ingrid Alexandra of Norway’s accessory of choice to visit the sculpture park bearing her name in Oslo on Tuesday.
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27. On Tuesday, Queen Sonja of Norway wore golden earrings and bangles to visit Ingrid Alexandra’s Sculpture Park with her granddaughter.
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26. The Duchess of Cambridge made a second appearance in her new gold earrings on Thursday, wearing them to visit the Sunshine House Children and Young People’s Health and Development Centre in London.
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25. On Monday, Princess Annemarie of Bourbon-Parma wore delicate gold jewelry, including a necklace of interlocking hearts, to celebrate the 80th birthday of her mother-in-law, Princess Irene of the Netherlands.
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24. Princess Viktoria of Bourbon-Parma also chose golden jewels to celebrate her mother-in-law’s birthday in Amsterdam on Monday.
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23. Princess Irene of the Netherlands wore a necklace with a simple gem-set pendant on Monday in Amsterdam for a special performance by the NatuurCollege (an organization she founded) in honor of her 80th birthday.
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22. To celebrate her sister on Monday, Princess Margriet of the Netherlands wore bright red earrings and a silver and gold necklace.
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21. Princess Marilene of Orange-Nassau wore gorgeous earrings with pale blue-green drops for Princess Irene’s birthday celebrations on Monday.
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20. For Princess Irene’s birthday concert on Monday, Princess Aimee of Orange-Nassau wore lovely pale pink statement earrings.
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19. To mark her mother’s milestone 80th birthday, Princess Carolina of Bourbon-Parma wore a pair of earrings set with gray-blue gemstones in a vintage style.
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18. Princess Margarita of Bourbon-Parma wore golden leaf-style earrings (perhaps from her own jewelry collection?) as she attended her mother’s birthday celebrations in Amsterdam on Monday.
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17. Striking jade statement earrings accompanied Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands to Princess Irene’s birthday concert on Monday.
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16. Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands wore classic pearls for her sister’s birthday concert on Monday.
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15. On Tuesday, Crown Princess Mary of Denmark wore classic sparkling hoop earrings and a delicate necklace for a visit to the UN City in Copenhagen.
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14. During the official visit from the Democratic Republic of the Congo on Tuesday, Queen Mathilde of the Belgians wore golden leaf-style earrings with a golden bracelet.
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13. Queen Maxima of the Netherlands wore her dramatic black drop earrings for Wednesday’s registration session for the biennial entrepreneurial prize of the King Willem I Foundation.
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12. Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden wore a gold bracelet and earrings for a dinner with the Danish crown princely couple at the Swedish Embassy in Copenhagen on Tuesday.
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11. Princess Beatrix wore blue jewels, including a sparkling pair of earrings, for the annual campaign day of the Zwaluwen Youth Action initiative on Saturday.
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10. On Tuesday, Princess Beatrix also wore blue-toned jewels to watch the Prinsjesdag carriage procession in The Hague. (More here!)
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9. On Wednesday, Princess Kako of Akishino wore classic pearls for a meeting with the Chancellor of Austria in Vienna.
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8. Queen Maxima wore her glittering hoop statement earrings on Wednesday for a visit to Hoogeveen.
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7. During Tuesday’s visit to the UN City in Copenhagen, Crown Princess Victoria wore a lovely pair of pearl earrings.
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6. On Thursday, Queen Maxima chose her gorgeous tassel earrings to attend an entrepreneurs’ forum in Apeldoorn.
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5. Queen Letizia wore her classic ruby drop earrings and her gold ring to welcome the Spanish national basketball team to Zarzuela Palace on Monday. (See the ring here!)
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4. For dinner with the Swedish crown princely couple in Copenhagen on Tuesday, Crown Princess Mary wore pieces from her pink gem set (and a remade version of the dress she wore to Victoria and Daniel’s pre-wedding gala!).
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3. Jewels set with diamonds and pink gemstones were Princess Laurentien’s choice for Prinsjesdag on Tuesday. (More here!)
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2. Queen Letizia dazzled in black diamond earrings and the joyas de pasar diamond bracelets for a night at the opera in Madrid on Wednesday.
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1. My top vote of the week goes to Queen Maxima, who wore pieces from the grand Mellerio Ruby Parure with her gown for Tuesday’s Prinsjesdag festivities in The Hague. (More here!)

Jewels from Rosenborg Castle

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One of the most fun things about running a royal jewelry website is definitely the way my readers share their royal jewel experiences with me. I’m always so honored when readers contact me and offer to share photos they’ve taken at various jewelry exhibitions, and I was thrilled when Annika reached out recently to share photos she took on a recent visit to Rosenborg Castle in Denmark.

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The treasures of Rosenborg are way to numerous to include comprehensively here, so I’ll hit some of the highlights. This display includes a double-stranded pearl necklace that belonged to Caroline Mathilda, the tragic queen consort of King Christian VII. The diamond earrings here also belonged to her.

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This jeweled hair ornament features a diamond crescent and pearl feathers. It was made around 1810 for Marie of Hesse-Kassel, the wife of King Frederik VI.

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This unusual set of gold jewelry is set with citrines, amethysts, pearls, and diamonds. It belonged to Louise Rasmussen, who is better known to history as Countess Danner; she was the morganatic wife of King Frederik VII. The suite of jewels was made by Diderichsen, the court jeweler. The jewels may have been given to Louise as a birthday present by Frederik in 1860.

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This fantastic suite of jewels is set with rose-cut diamonds. (The particular cut was named because the facet pattern resembles the petals of a rosebud.) The diamonds originally belonged to Princess Charlotte Amalie of Denmark (1706-1782), the younger sister of King Christian VI. The diamonds were set in this demi-parure by C.M. Weisshaupt in 1840, during the reign of King Christian VIII.

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The other grand diamond suite in the Rosenborg display was also made by C.M. Weisshaupt in 1840. The diamonds included in the set belonged to a trio of Danish queens: Sophie Magdalene of Brandenburg (wife of King Christian VI), Juliana Marie of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (second wife of King Frederik V), and Caroline Matilda of Great Britain (wife of King Christian VII). You’ll recognize these as some of the jewels that Queen Margrethe II wore at Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary’s wedding in 2004.

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Like both diamond suites, this set of ruby, diamond, and pearl jewels was made in 1840 by C.M. Weisshaupt, during the reign of King Christian VIII. The pearl necklace goes back even further; it belonged to Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel, who married King Christian V in 1667. Queen Margrethe II wears the ruby pieces fairly frequently.

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Annika also took some excellent photos of the Danish royal family’s emerald parure, including this great shot of the tiara. You’ll see Queen Margrethe II wears this parure on numerous state occasions.

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Like the diamond suites and the ruby and pearl suite, the emerald parure was made in 1840 by C.M. Weisshaupt. The emeralds are a century older; they were given to Queen Sophie Magdalene by her husband, King Christian VI, in 1723.

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All four of the suites were made the year after the accession of King Christian VIII, and they were probably initially worn by his second wife, Caroline Amalie of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg.

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I also loved this excellent photo that Annika shared of a whole selection of colorful rings. Gorgeous! Huge thanks again to Annika for sharing the wonderful photos taken during her visit!