http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/life/9901622/Royal-of-the-day-Princess-Victoria-of-Wales
It always off centre! However I'm assuming then this isn't the Cartier. Even though it appears in this photograph:
http://www.gogmsite.net/the-belle-epoque-1890-1914/subalbum-princess-victoria-/toria-wearing-evening-dress.html
Which is the coloured version of the photograph, this one has a given date of 1905. So perhaps this rose centred tiara is either the Cartier or Toria possessed two?
I also believe Toria left a most of her estate to her godson the Duke of Kent.
Doesn't this tiara have an appearance rather than provenance history?
https://artemisiasroyaljewels.blogspot.com/2013/02/british-royal-jewels-kent-jewels-pearl.html
As Franck suggests it could have been left to Mary who deftly passed over it over to the Kent's. Perhaps though a direct bequest or earlier gift? It also has a non proven but not disproved provenance to Cartier.
I would like to know if Queen Mary had inherited few jewels from Princess Victoria...maybe these jewels are currently in the vault.
Have we got press reports about her will ?
I know that a diamond fringe necklace was left to Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother as Duchess of York by Princess Victoria of Wales in 1936 (Leslie Field)
However, I have never seen QEQM wearing this necklace...
Franck
What an incredibly interesting find Kongetro!
I have always felt that most illustrations of jewels in the media bore some relationship to known items. Like the sketches of facial features they may not be a perfect reproduction; rather they were (I feel) meant to let readers identify what the subjects were wearing.
In the case of this sketch of the state banquet held in honour of the King and Queen of Italy,
I can recognise that Queen Alexandra is meant to be wearing the Diamond Diadem and Queen Mary the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland tiara, while Queen Elena seems to be wearing this tiara.
As this banquet took place at Windsor in November 1903, Princess Victoria would have had the Cartier tiara by then, as Hans Nadelhoffer, page 330 says that she purchased the tiara in 1902. What a shame that he did not publish a photo of the jewel! Without photographic evidence I think it is impossible to say whether this tiara is the Cartier one or not, but it has to be a strong possibility.
While the sketch is not identical, it does remind me of the tiara which was depicted in a scene from Windsor Castle in November 1905.
It is such a shame that photographers were not allowed to take photos of the banquet scenes. I think the issue was the possibility that a royal would be photographed eating. The table setting was photographed prior to the banquet.
It is a great find Kongetro. You may well have found the Cartier tiara.
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