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QE2: Lovely Brooch Posted by Dave on December 12, 2018, 12:39 pm Please see below. https://www.royal-magazin.de/england/queen/overseas-league-wedding-gift-clip-brooch.htm Regards, Dave.

Re: QE2: Lovely Brooch. The Overseas League brooch Posted by Beth on December 12, 2018, 5:14 pm, in reply to "QE2: Lovely Brooch" Although the brooch on the Royal Magazin site was a wedding gift to the Queen from the Overseas League, the idea of giving the then Princess Elizabeth the brooch was initially proposed as a 21st birthday present. In early May 1947 the UK media and those in Commonwealth countries carried reports that the League had opened a shilling fund to raise money for the brooch. I assume that, as the brooch had not been presented by the time the Queen's engagement was announced in July 1947, the League sent it as a wedding present instead. I have never seen a photo of the Queen wearing this brooch, but I presume she would have worn it when she and Prince Philip visited the headquarters in 1948.

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