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None of them are Queen Victoria's tiara that she is wearing in the paintings. The Baden Fringe is the most similar.
mims111 said:Baden Fringe and Sunray diadem aren't the same I think. Sunray has fringes all like one. Baden fringe has from bigger to smaller fringes. Does anybody know, what I mean?
felicia said:In the Winterhalter portrait below, Queen Victoria is wearing her ''Sunray" tiara. I like it a lot. Where is it now? Does the royal family still have it? If not, why?
As I posted before the tiara in question was also painted in that painting of Q Victoria with seven of her children. It looks really different from the George III Fringe Tiara there as well. I am more inclined to trust Munn since he is such an expert. But Leslie Field had the Queen's input as you say. Munn firmly believes (see the other bits I quoted from his book) that they are not the same tiara/diadem.ayvee said:Since I quoted Leslie Field's book The Queen's Jewels regarding the fringe tiara, I quote what Geoffrey Munn says in "Tiaras, A History of Splendour" from p. 165...
Thanks a lot for quoting your source Ayvee. I'm not so sure it isn't the George III Fringe Tiara. But it just looks really different from the painting. The one in the painting looks nicer I think. Maybe Queen Mary had it altered or something. Munn said the George III Fringe Tiara was made for Queen Mary. I don't know which is the truth.ayvee said:In Leslie Field's book "The Queen's Jewels"...this portrait appears on p. 41 and has a title, "The King George III Fringe Tiara"...
Queen Marie was renowned for being just a touch theatrical. magnik's link1. pic is a good example.mims111 said:oh gosh! it looks like from lord of the rings
Has anyone more infos about this tiara/crown? Or better pics? I just wanna see how it looks, because on these pics it looks little bit like plastic.magnik said:About Queen Marie of Romania tiaras - what are these two?
1. http://www.tkinter.smig.net/QueenMarie/Gallery/Marie56.htm
2. http://www.tkinter.smig.net/QueenMarie/Gallery/Marie71.htm
mims111 said:I found these fringe's tiaras:
http://royal-jewels.blogspot.com/2006/03/feast-of-fringes.html
queen's tiaras: http://www.mandysroyalty.org/aTiaras.html
No its not that one that Princess Mary, the Princess Royal wore. That was her own fringe tiara. It's either the George III Fringe Tiara or it is no longer worn by British Royals.qui mal y pense said:I think the tiara princess mary is wearing is the most similar to the sunray of the current known BRF tiaras...
Yes Thomas, the pic is in this very thread. To save you the trouble of paging through, here is the link. All part of the service.Thomas Parkman said:The fabulous Queen Marie, who really was an heroic individual... There is a picture from somewhere around here of her wearing a fabulous pearl and dimond tiara and this perfectly hideous stomacher.
A short off-topic deviation:Thomas Parkman said:...to explain just what happened to the house of Nassau and how they got done in by the Prussians and then bounced back and danced on the Prussians graves?
It was a comment referring to Queen Mary's "modest" display of diamonds and jewels, intended to raise a wry chuckle....somebody referred to Queen Mary as modest. I laughed at that one.
GD Adolphe (the deposed Duke of Nassau made good) was succeeded by his son, GD Guillaume IV who had six daughters. Being pure pragmatists, the Family Statute of 1907 allowed females to succeed to the throne. Problem solved.Thomas Parkman said:... the history of Luxemburg, please correct me if I am wrong but at some point the Salic law was set aside. After all as I recall the Grand Duchess Charlotte inherited the throne, from her father ? grandfather?
If we want the Forums to continue the copyright law must be respected. The alternative is a shut-down site, which is a fate which befell two Royal Jewels websites in 2005....this place is going to rack and ruin.
It's Princess Alexandra of Kent wearing her favourite tiara of diamonds and turquoise. Sorry, I don't know if it has a name, it may be "the Daisy Tiara".mims111 said:Does anybody know who is this lady and how is this tiara called please? http://www.theroyalforums.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=210300&d=1131310362