This is a wonderful photograph!

I think that the bandeau worn by the then Viscountess Lascelles is one of her mother's wedding gifts, the small pearl and diamond necklace presented by the rulers of Gondal.

See: https://mb.boardhost.com/historyroyaljewels/thread/1566356822.html

As some had already noticed, this necklace may have provided the basis for the current Princess Royal's so-called Festoon Necklace, which was an 18th birthday present from her parents (in 1968), according to Leslie Field.

As her great-aunt Mary had died a few years earlier, in 1965, this could imply that the necklace had been in her possession.

The late Princess Royal had an extensive collection of jewels, which was dispersed in her later years and after her death. I suppose that the necklace had already been altered at the time (1927), as it seems more substantial than the original gift (the pearls would already have been replaced by diamonds).

Does anyone know when Princess Anne was first seen with the necklace?


By the way, this is the first time I see a picture of Cynthia Colville wearing a tiara and the badge of her office as woman of the bedchamber to Queen Mary (app. 1923). The illustration below comes from The Royal Family Orders Badges of Office Household Medals and Souvenirs (1951).