Queen Elizabeth stepped out with her youngest son, Prince Edward, at Buckingham Palace last Thursday, looking beautiful in a bold orange outfit with her favorite Loner London handbag.
As always, she added a sparkling brooch to her outfit, and like many jewelry pieces, her latest pick has an exciting story behind it, as Her Majesty’s diamond rose brooch originally appeared on a tiara given to her on the occasion of her royal wedding to Prince Philip, according to the website. “hello magazine“.
The Cartier tiara, as well as the necklace, were gifted to then-Princess Elizabeth, by Nizam of Hyderabad, an Indian prince, and have another special meaning since they were chosen by the Queen herself, after being told she could choose whatever she wanted from the jeweler’s house.
Queen Elizabeth wears the original crown before it was dismantled
The tiara featured three rose brooches, which Her Majesty the Queen wears much more regularly than the tiara, and while the larger rose brooch, which the Queen wore on a walk with Prince Edward, is worn alone, the smaller brooches are usually worn as a set of two.
The Queen wears two flower brooches
The Duchess of Cambridge wore a Hyderabadi necklace, and a diamond necklace added allure with her Jenny Packham gown, for a formal occasion she participated in in 2014.
Kate Middleton wore the necklace in 2014
As for the original crown, it was completely dismantled by the Queen in the 1970s, in order to make what is now known as the Burmese sapphire crown, adding rubies that were also given to the king as a wedding gift this time from the people of Burma.
The queen is said to have made a tiara because the queen mother was closely related to another ruby-bearing piece in the royal collection, the tiara of the eastern circle, which was supposed to pass to Elizabeth when she became queen.
The Queen wears a Burmese sapphire crown
But instead of taking it from her mother, the Queen decided to make another piece hence the Burmese sapphire tiara, which we still see regularly today, and she chose to wear memorably to host then-President Donald Trump for a state dinner at Buckingham Palace in January 2020.