Posted by Beth
on November 14, 2018, 5:31 am, in reply to "Queen Elizabeth wearing an unknown bracelet "
This had me quite puzzled Franck, until I checked other Beaton portraits taken at the same sitting in 1939.
The V & A holds another photo
https://www.vandaimages.com/preview.asp?image=1000CB0028&itemw=2&itemf=0001&itemstep=161&itemx=179
which shows that the bracelet was Queen Victoria's large diamond bracelet which she left to the Crown.
Detail from the second portrait held by the V & A.
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