on August 25, 2018, 4:39 pm
http://www.tiara-mania.com/2014/10/kent-festoon-tiara.html
The tiara seems to have little to no provenance, it just appeared according to Beth (whom I doubt the information is less than 100% accurate) with the DoK after QM deaths.
It's creation is thought to be around the turn of the century and it apparently comes in a Cartier box with no attribution though as such.
The Kent's I believe by that point at the end of WW11 were not very well off. Churchill described her as the only war widow in England to pay death duties so a purchase seems unlikely.
PT died in 1935 and left pretty much everything, that we know of, to EDOK. If the Kents did get this and unless we haven't found a photo yet it sat unworn for 18 years.
Franck wondered if PT left anything to QM? So it may have sat in the vaults for a number of numbers. Mind you I didn't think QM did unworn for a number of years.
So where/whom did Maria get it from?
To add a twist her mother died in 1957 and as is not unlikely her mother may have made a dispersal of jewels before then.
What does anyone else think or know?
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