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Apart from the two press reports I posted in 2018, I have now found a description of the tiara in 1911. According to the press report, the Cholmondeley tiara was amongst those exhibited in the Cartier exhibition of tiaras to be worn at the 1911 Coronation.
I think that the description of the tiara in the 1911 exhibition matches the floral tiara worn by the current Marchioness.
Newspaper description from The Australasian 20 May 1911.
To my way of thinking the description rules out the Ancaster Heatcote tiara being the Cholmondeley tiara.
Cholmondeley tiara
Ancaster Heatcote tiara
Compared to the Ancaster Heatcote tiara, the Harewood floral tiara is a relatively restrained item.
Closer view
The last image helps explain (in my opinion) why the Cholmondeley floral tiara is not a re-worked or re-configured version of the Ancaster Heatcote tiara, as in 1911 the rose in Cholmondeley was described as not as standing out so markedly. In the Ancaster Heatcote tiara, the roses, and in particular the central rose, are very prominent.
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