A poster has provided an inventory of Queen Marie's jewels that she prepared herself as at 1902 and where they originated from (sadly no pictures) - the bulk of important pieces coming from her mother it seems.
Strikes me that the items from Queen Victoria would be better described as trinkets as opposed to substantive pieces - we know that many significant pieces of jewellery were left by Queen Victoria to her younger children but I am not aware of any left to the children of the Duke of Edinburgh (he had pre-deceased his mother).
The list is also rather low on pieces from Romanov relatives - which I find odd as the Romanovs were notoriously rich and generous and from what I have read about Marie she was generally very popular within the family - there is a brooch from the Tsar (presumably Alexander III as he was still Tsar when Marie married) and a brooch from Grand Duke Boris, who by that stage was believed to have fathered Marie's third child, also Marie, future Queen of Yugoslavia.
You don't need to speak Spanish to read, if you click on google translate it is very legible in English.
I’ve found out that a book called “Bijuterile Regina Maria” was published last year. It is about the collection of jewels that belonged to Queen Marie of Romania including the famous jewels that were sent to Russia during WWI and lost forever. Apparently the author found an ilustrated inventory of everything that was sent to Russia which is great!!
The YouTube vide I’m posting here is from a news report (in Romanian which I understand 0) that gives us a glimpse of what is the book and some images of the jewels. Worth to see!
Is there any member who speaks Romanian and can help us with some more info?
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