Regards,
Dave.
I find it hard to believe that neither the Queen Mum nor the Queen would have worn a Greville piece before this, especially one that went so well with the Vladimir tiara. It definitely is not the Queen Victoria necklace as that is on display and the spacers are different. I also cannot imagine they would allow anyone to alter it. The fact that it is now 100 years since the Russian Revolution kind of leads me to believe that it's a Russian piece that has been sitting until the people who might have remembered it are gone. Grand Duchess Vladimir had many more emeralds, and drops, on her costume ball costume than were sold to Barbara Hutton. Also in the Duma photo she is wearing a drop necklace that doesn't look like the one Barbara Hutton bought. Empress Maria, GD Xenia and others sold jewels or may have stored them with the BRF for safekeeping. Im just not sold on tbe Greville theory.
Beth their is a theory I saw on the RJWMB by a poster LittleMo where she/ he postulates that the necklace worn at the diplomatic reception at BP could be in fact the necklace from QV and the emerald drops from QV's emerald tiara. While I tend not to follow this theory as the QV's suite is legally on loan to KP via a government and private custodian arrangement and I believe off limits to a prospective wearer, don't you think with the similarities of the sq. cut emeralds and tear drop toppers from the tiara, does it not hold some kind of water?
Regards,
Dave.
A major new jewel worn by Queen Elizabeth! What an interesting time we are having!
I agree with Frank and Thomas that the jewel worn by Queen Elizabeth is most likely the mystery necklace which can be seen in the photo of Mrs Greville at the Austrian Embassy concert.
(Every time I see Sir Thomas Inskip in the photo I want to move him. If only Mrs Greville was sitting in his position!)
It is very obvious from press reports during the life time of Mrs Greville that she had at least 2 emerald necklaces and perhaps a third.
I have read the opinion of Dmitry on the RJWMB that the necklace worn by QEII is a rearranged version of the one worn by QEQM. I disagree.
QEII wearing the "new" emerald necklace.
It is difficult to find clear sharp images of the emerald necklace worn by QEQM; nevertheless, I think that the arrangement of the diamonds surrounding the emeralds in that necklace is different.
comparison of the two necklaces.
What might be very similar is the design of the diamond motifs linking the emerald and diamond clusters.
One idea which occurred to me --
Could the necklace worn by QEQM (minus the pendant) have been worn by Mrs Greville inside the large emerald necklace with the cabochon drops? How Mrs Greville had the 5 row Greville diamond necklace constructed shows that Mrs Greville liked a grand display. Two major emerald necklaces worn together would have provided justification for the press comments about her magnificent emeralds.
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