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Mrs Letizia will deposit some of the royal jewels "to pass"
Julia Sáez-Angulo The diadema Hellenic that Letizia Ortiz lit up in its wedding with the Prince of Asturias, property and the queen Sofía, has passed to use and enjoyment of the today Princess of Asturias.
18 of September of 2005. As opposed to England, Spain does not have jewels of the Crown in strict sense. Only a simple crown is kept and a silver scepter sobredorada in royal palace, that symbolize the Kingdom, and that they preside on a cushion some solemn acts of the Monarchy. Perhaps by this, an English, the queen Victory Eugenia, created the calls "jewels to pass", so that the queens of Spain use them and they enjoy, but itself they be not scattered among the heirs, as has come occurring. They are few jewels in number, but important and significant as the crown of the fleur-de-lis, that lights up the queen in official receptions, the necklaces of chatones; the necklace of pearls of the queen Mercy and other.
The Queen Sofía, attentive to this new spirit, has yielded the diadema Hellenic to the Princess of Asturias the one that of institutional way goes lighting up progressively some family jewels as a necklace of pearls the one that likewise Mrs gave him Sofía, the day of the engagement, or the clasps twins decó in the neckline of the red dress of Caprile the one that lit up in the wedding of the Danish heir, clasps that Countess of Barcelona, and that lit up in days of gala.
Significant jewel The diadema Hellenic is a very significant jewel, because was the one that gave the kaiser Guillermo II to its only daughter María Luisa of Prussia for its wedding with the prince of Hannover in the 19th century, who at the same time its daughter passed it Federica when married Pablo of Greece and this at the same time to its daughter Mrs Sofía when married Gift Juan Carlos, Prince of Asturias in dynastic sense. The observers think that the Queen has determined "to pass" her diadema of Princess of Asturias to Princess of Asturias, to increase this personal but historic type of jewels of the monarchy.
Since they married the Princes of Asturias, the queen does not light up again the tiara Hellenic and, according to trustworthy sources, today herself custody in the Building of the Princes, at the disposal of Mrs Letizia.
The Princess of Asturias lights up habitually simple jewels, while he reserves the jewels "to pass" for the institutional days of gala. He was the Countess from Barcelona the one that minted the expression jewels "to pass", when the queen Victory Eugenia delivered him the historic jewels al to die Alfonso XIII. Mrs María of Bourbon did not want to accept them while her mother-in-law to live, and the only time that lit up them all was, at the request of the own Victory Eugenia, in the coronation of Isabel II, "because I here am as English princess and queen mother, while you are like the queen of Spain", told her Mrs María.
Jewelers suppliers
Although Ansorena has been the firm jeweler traditionally proveedora of the Real House, and at present is in charge of the conservation of the jewels that proceed of its workshop, there are other Spanish jewelers that supply the present Real Family, like the Suarez the one that did the ring of commitment of the Prince of Asturias for Letizia or Career and Career the one that as reports Gold & Time has worked likewise some jewel for the princess.
The firm Spanish jeweler, Career and Career, that celebrates now its 250 anniversary, account in its information that has supplied jewels to diverse personages of the Arabian and European royalty, among them to Mrs Letizia.
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