And not all importnan pieces are in the fundation. For example it was once statet somewhere that the cmaeo paure and the Connaught tiara are the private propert of King Carl Gustaf and not in the Foundation.
Actually the pearl tiara now worn by Queen Margrethe belonged only for a very short period of time to a swedsih royal as Queen Lovisa inherited it aftr the death of her mothr in December 1870 but she passed away only 3 months later in march 1871 when it was inherited by her only child Crown Princess Louise of Denmark. And the others parts of the Set where W3edding gift tio Crown Pricness Louse so they never belongd to swedish Royals.
I believe most of the current jewels associated with the Swedish royal family are held within the Bernadotte Foundation.
However, arguably even more fascinating are the jewels that have passed through the Swedish royal house into other royal houses i.e. were never part of the Foundation.
The Danish Pearl Tiara (worn by Queen Margrethe II) and Ruby parure (worn by Crown Princess Mary) and the splendid Queen Josephine Tiara (worn by Queen Sonja) all were part of the Swedish collection and went to Denmark in 1869 with Princess Lovise of Sweden, along with a truly stunning Pink Topaz parure that is now in the Albion museum in Japan.
A generation later the superb Bernadotte emerald parure now worn by Queen Sonja also left the main line, although fortunately it found itself in Norway a further generation later.
I'd like to know when the Bernadotte Foundation was established, what the motivation behind it was (regret at losing such grand items) and who determined what should and should not be in it.
I'd also like to know if successive Swedish queens have added pieces or is it now to hold only historical pieces?
Does anyone know?
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