History of Famous Jewels and Collections: Re: Belgian Jewells

What I've been thinking & hoping for a while: crown princess Elisabeth will be 18 this year. Maybe she will get to wear Fabiola's tiara, as the first one or exclusively...? I can imagine Mathilde granting her daughter this priveledge.

It's of course also posible the tiara is being kept away untill a Spanish gala is on the agenda (seeing the political situation in Both SP & BE right now this can take many years).

Could the fact that it was a present from Franco, a dictator after all, play a part in the delay in use?

Anyway, I'm sure Mathilde has inherited the tiara and I can't wait to see it again!

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It would be very interesting to know what has happened to the majority of Queen Fabiola's jewels.

Even if most are now with Queen Mathilde, I suspect that HM would not wear the Spanish wedding gift tiara. For some reason, I feel that the Queen has a quiet personality and is unlikely to wear something as flamboyant as that tiara -- at least in its coronet format. Perhaps she will surprise us all by wearing it as a necklace one day.

What do others think?