The photo of Queen Alexandra was taken at the wedding of Princess Louise Duchess of Fife on 27 July 1889. The Royal Collection curators have identified the photo.
See Royal Collection https://www.rct.uk/collection/search#/3/collection/2904795/alexandra-princess-of-wales-with-her-sons-prince-albert-victor-and-prince-george
Another photo of Queen Alexandra on the same day.
All the press reports describing the Queen's clothes and jewels on that day state that her dress was pearl grey and that she wore a sapphire tiara.
There are numerous press reports of Queen Alexandra wearing a sapphire tiara, but this is the only occasion for which we have photos.
Several years ago I argued that the sapphires used in the tiara came from the necklace given to her by her brother-in-law the Czar and her sister, the Empress for Alexandra's silver wedding gift.
The sapphire necklace is the item marked 1 in the sketch below. (It was sold by the estate of the Countess of Southesk after her death)
According to Ursula's site each of the cabochon sapphire elements in the necklace is detachable. See https://royal-magazin.de/england/queen-alexandra/sapphires-collar.htm
The tiara was obviously adaptable as the Countess of Southesk wore it with amethysts to the 1937 Coronation, along with Queen Alexandra's amethyst necklace. The amethyst stones are much larger than the sapphires and, from the photos, we can see that the setting of the amethysts is different.
Countess of Southesk at 1937 Coronation
When the jewels were sold after the death of the Countess, they were as an amethyst tiara, an amethyst necklace and a sapphire necklace.
There are numerous reports of Queen Alexandra wearing an amethyst tiara, but these date only from 1904, so it is arguable that the tiara was initially designed for the sapphires.
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