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Last Satruday i was at at Straubing where the Wedding of Prince Francois of Orleans and Theresa von Einsiedel took place.
Report and pics here: https://royaltravel.wordpress.com/2014/07/27/royal-wedding-in-straubing/
Is this long delay typical of Hohenzollern style or are people thinking there's something wrong?
Perhaps he also had in mind the negative influence of Romanov blood on the dynasties of Württemberg and their close kin, the Orange-Nassaus in the Netherlands? In both houses you find a concentration of what the 19th century saw as "degenerate traits": gay or bisexual monarchs (Karl I and Wilhelm II himself and Willem II (married to a Romanov)), heirs not marrying and dying young (the Prince of Orange and his brothers), mental health problems (Willem III) and general succession problems. It could appear that the political (to be as German as possible) was linked to the blood, with the British RF bringing in hemophilia and liberalism and the Romanovs degeneracy and despotism, all of it eventually leading to other places than healthy German unity and stability. It would be enough to see how the Württembergs' step-kin, the Princes of Oldenburg, fared once they married a Romanov and moved to Russia. Quite unlike the Oldenburgs who remained in their ancestral land and reproduced like a mini-version of the vigorous Hohenzollerns. The same could of course be said of the House of Hesse (and quite a few other German dynasties with Romanov links too.)
I think the Queen Mother returned the royal pieces to the crown, but the Greville collection and the Boucheron tiara were her own property. Maybe she will them to Charles.
Yes. But that was "borrowed" from the Queen and not given to her. A lot of Diana's jewels in the early days were made clear to be "on loan" from the Queen. That included the diamond necklace on first trip to Australia, the diamond watch from the Queen collection etc...
Not sure. I think the Danish Royal Family was clever to make a jewel pool which they they can lent or borrow if the need arise. I think that was because the bulk came through from the inheritance of Queen Lovisa (wife of King Frederick VIII). Indeed the continental royals wore much more jewelry than the British ones. I think they enjoy seeing their royals looking like one and proud of them, while there is a class system in Britain that is jealous of finery. The last one to use clothes and jewels to win popularity was Diana, and maybe the Queen wanted to limit Kate's expose as she did not want the young woman to overshadow her. I agree that was the Queen's intention to limit the jewels to only the ruling branch of the family. I think it makes sense now, as events seem to indicate that it is possible that the story that the queen asked "where are the jewels ?" the night Diana died might be true.
Well...But even the Countess of Wessex did appear in a tiara. She was much down the pecking order than The Duchess of Cambridge. It would be very interesting to see when inevitably that they will have to appear formally in some function that merits one. By that time it would be painfully clear the absence of such a "tool of the trade". I am very "old school" in my ideas about royalty. Queen Mary when Duchess of York wore nice jewels (she was in the same position as Kate is today, the wife of the son of the heir to the throne).
BTW her great grandmother Irina Mikhailovna Rayevskaya, first married to Count Alexander Mikhailovich Tolstoy (this union having produced Princess Sophie's grandmother), secondly married the Russian Mecklenburg morganaut George, Count of Carlow. Their descendants are today the claimants to the thrones of Mecklenburg.
It is interesting how many things genealogy can show us...
Prince Georg Friedrich is also a descendant of the Protestant branch of Ysenburg family as the great-grandmother of his mother Donata is Princess Emma von Ysenburg und Büdingen zu Büdingen,who died in 1926...
There are at least a dozen tiaras that are not frequently worn -- some have not been seen in decades. And if Alexandra's are intact, the number is even higher. I hope that she receives two -- the Strathmore for the wedding and the Lover's Knot for her first overseas tour. In a fantasy world, the Windsors could get their hands on Q Victoria's sapphire tiara that the Harewoods sold years ago. It would be perfect on Kate, given its size and her young age.
http://www.bunte.de/royals/irmingard-prinzessin-von-bayern-sie-starb-im-alter-von-88-jahren_aid_20882.html
She looked so much like her father!
Quite a bit yes.
Daughter of Ruprecht and Antonia and aunt of HRH Duke Franz,the present Head of the Bavarian RF.
The Princess's interment will be within the closest family circle,on thursday november 4th a Requiem
will be held in the Theatinerkirche,Munich.
http://www.royaltyguide.nl/countries/germany/munich/theatinerkirche.htm
courtesy Mardam.
On one of the jewel boards (because of the recent wedding) there was info on this diadem. It was made from 3 brooches (belonging to Queen Alexandrine and left to Queen Ingrid), I believe--probably connected into a stomacher as Ashdean posted. It was converted to the diadem known as the Floral Brooch Tiara as present from Ingrid to Queen Anne-Marie. This, at least, according to the royal forums. The tiara was also worn by Princess Marie-Chantal at her wedding.
Is it the one that Princess Theodora wore to Prince Joachim of Denmark's 2nd wedding?
Marie-Chantal
The taira made out of three brooches is a simlar one belonging to Anne-Marie's sister Pricness Benedikte. This one was originally a stomacher who belonged to Queen Victoria of Sweden and was inherited by Queen Anne-Marie.
