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As for some of the other guests the lady standing to the right of Queen Emma in the photo is the Princess of Waldeck and Pyrmont, so mother to the bride and Queen Emma. She must have been quite the sight as she is covered in diamonds. A good photo is to found, again, on the Royal Collection site:
https://www.royalcollection.org.uk/collection/search#/16/collection/2907259/helena-princess-of-waldeck-and-pyrmont-1861-1922-in-the-dress-worn-at-the-duke
What about the lady standing behind the Princess of Wales (later Queen Alexandra)? Could that be Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein? And is she wearing stars in her hair?
(link to the painting on the Royal Collection site: https://www.royalcollection.org.uk/collection/search#/24/collection/404481/the-marriage-of-the-duke-of-albany-27th-april-1882)
This picture seems to be taken on that occasion!
Queen Emma is wearing her Van Kempen Parure, which according to Pinterest:
"included a tiara, necklace and a corsage. Commissioned in 1879 by K Willem III for his new wife, Q Emma. A tiara of laurel wreath base topped with large round sunbursts and large upright pearls. A necklace containing the famous Holland or Stuart diamond (dismantled to create the Stuart tiara) and a diamond devant de corsage. In 1897 it was remodelled into a new parure for Q Wilhelmina."
In addition, this was also the Tiara and Necklace (as a corsage) worn by Queen Wilhelmina in her inauguration portrait!
Can anyone identify the tiara and necklace worn by Queen Emma?
The detail below is taken from a painting by JD Linton of the wedding of Prince Leopold and Helen of Waldeck and Prymont in April 1882.
RCIN 405021
Kongetro
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