Thanks to a query posed by one poster in a private message, I searched in the newspapers to identify when the photo of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother being greeted by Lady Bessborough was taken.

Photo I originally posted.


The photo was not taken at the Guildhall as I initially assumed, but at the Savoy Theatre in March 1939. So this is the 5th identified wearing of the tiara.

Details.





Hugh Roberts in The Queen's Diamonds notes that a new frame was made for the tiara in 1937, so I think that, in time, we will find that QEQM wore the tiara much more frequently than previously thought. Roberts said it was perhaps worn only once; we now have 5 separate occasions identified.