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Dave.
On 2 March 1879 Queen Victoria recorded in her journal that she had told her son, Arthur, Duke of Connaught, she would give his wife to be an Indian diadem. Then on 12 March 1879 Queen Victoria described showing her gifts to the bride and others, again referring to an Indian diadem.
The Times described it as
I suspect that this tiara might have been one worn by Queen Victoria herself (long before she had the Oriental circlet made) which she described in her journal as her Indian diadem.
At the time of the Connaught wedding the press did not provide a sketch of this gift; nevertheless, I wonder if the tiara worn by the Duchess in the photo below might have been the gift. I think it fits the description.
What do others think? Could it be a possibility?
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