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Posted by Beth
Re: Queen Ena's Pearl. Archived Message
on July 5, 2018, 7:37 am, in reply to "Re: Queen Ena's Rings"
Welcome Kongetro, and many thanks for the photo with this superb view of the pearl drop. The photos which you and Thomas have provided have prompted a deeper interest in the Spanish royal pearls.
Kongetro's photo jogged my memory (it is not the best these days), and sent me on a hunt for more images.
I also discovered that Cristina of the RJWMB noted that it was one of the items left by Queen Ena as one of the jewels to pass from Queen to Queen in Spain. http://members2.boardhost.com/royal-jewels/msg/1401734519.html
Cristina refers to it as La Peregrina. There seems to be considerable controversy over whether this pearl was the famed La Peregrina or one which is referred to as the Pearl of Charles II, an almost equally ancient pearl.
The various views and an historical overview are outlined by Vincent Meylan in Christie's. The jewellery archives revealed pp. 221-224. The evidence outlined highlights that the pearl purchased by Richard Burton for Elizabeth Taylor in 1969 was La Peregrina and that the one given to Queen Ena as a wedding gift was the Pearl of Charles II.
Photo of the wedding gifts to Queen Ena from her husband.
It seems to me that the pearl later worn by Queen Ena and Queen Sophia as a pendant is the one which was a pendant to the diamond and pearl brooch King Alfonso XIII gave Queen Ena as a wedding gift.
Has Queen Letizia ever been photographed wearing the pearl?