I am also pretty sure that the Crown Jewels were stored in another country house (and not a royal residence).
Again I would very strongly suspect the majority of her jewels were with QM but there would have been cache's for insurance purposes scattered around designated safe houses for use as the royal family retreated north.
One of answers to the question of which tiara's QM may have had with her would depend on what she left as her personal property compared to what she had handed over to QE as queen regnant. Previous Message
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I don’t have the book available, but if I recall correctly there is a reference to queen Mary’s jewels and the storage during WW2 in Pope-Hennessy. They had been stored at Windsor during the war, and she noted it was “interesting” so see them after the war. So she probably didn’t bring the bulk of her collection with her to Badminton if this is correct.
But it is very likely that she also brought with her some of her collection to Badminton. But wouldn’t Windsor probably be deemed a safer place for storage? Wasn’t the crowd jewels also hidden at Windsor?
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