I know that Vincent Meylan has published on how some of the rubies of the Duchess of Edinburgh (Grand Duchess Marie) parure were dismantled and substitutes inserted.
Queen Mary, as we know dismantled a number of jewels and created new ones with the gemstones. For example the tiara given to her by Queen Victoria and the Ladies of England tiara.
Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother had Queen Victoria's Regal circlet dismantled to create her 1937 coronation crown.
In more recent times QEII repurposed the rubies in the necklace the people of Burma gave her (plus the diamonds in the Nizam tiara) in order to create her modern ruby tiara.
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