"I may as well begin by telling you frankly that a princess spends very little of her time wearing a diadem! Although the court functions at Bucharest were always dignified and beautiful, by the standards of some courts they were simple and sober ones. I myself wore the lovely sapphire and diamond tiara on only one state occasion, and that was at a large ball which the Legitimist Party gave in the Hofburg in Vienna, four years after I was married. I went to only one “court ball” in my life, and that was at my own wedding; but there I wore a much smaller diadem given me by my father-in-law. (It was, however, an appropriate one for the occasion when the title “Archduchess of Austria” had been added to my name, because the diadem had originally been a present from Napoleon to Maria Louisa, who was also an archduchess of Austria.)"
I've been waiting to publish my finds on the Tiara, HERE, on the 30th Anniversary of Princess Ileana's death today, but I am hoping you have more information about the Tiara and its current whereabouts. Since she incorrectly wrote some facts about the Sapphire Kokoshnik, I wonder if the provenance she listed is correct or some family legend.
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