Hannover jewels

[ashdean]

Thanks for posting ! I do collect postcards of the Cumberland girls. I see more of Alexandra of Mecklenburg-Sherwin in jewels than Marie Louise, who was usually photographed with her her husband & two young children in daytime dress.

Alexandra of M-S had quite a number of jewels...at least 4 tiaras apart from the towering diamond and amythest diadem (which belonged to a parure and was part of the house gems) she wore 2 of them at the wedding of Fredrick of Denmark and Ingrid of Sweden but then they disappear off the radar.I always wonder if they were left hidded in Ludwiglust when they fled west in 1945..indeed that might have been the reason their son Christian Ludwig returned to Schwerin and was capturd by the Russians...however nobody ever seems to know anything about their fate. Of course their married daughter who lived in Flensberg before the end of the war might have already received a share.

One worn at the theatre was a large diamond affair topped with coloured stones (rather like the Leutchenberg sapphire tiara in the Swedish royal collection...this could have been the aquamarine and diamond tiara which was commissioned by the Grand Duke in St Petersburg as a wedding gift for his bride.
The other was a rather ugly,weird shaped affair(maybe a aigrette sans plume) worn in a wedding group photograph.

Hi! What are the two diadems that she wore at the wedding of Frederick of Denmark and Ingrid of Sweden? I only saw one of them...

Regards and thanks in advance!

Are these two the diadems that she whore?
http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/8059/alejandradehannovergran.jpg

http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/6186/alexandramecklenburgsch.jpg

Grand duchess Alexandra had, at least, another diadem: a fringe tiara. But I have not seen more photos of her wearing more diadems (fringe, aigrette and tall diadem with coloured stones)

Regards!

Those indeed are the 2 tiaras while the first photograph of the 2 Carloath kindly posted shows the fringe tiara that Alexandra seems to have worn on her wedding day.
As Alexandra seems to have after WW2 worn no great gems  (the christenings of her Hanoverian great nephews when other ladies were respledent springs to mind)one can only speculate they were lost in 1945.However Alexandra does not seem to have been a particulary wordly fashion concious person.

[Eric_Lowe]

I do wonder how much of the jewels the House of Mecklenburg-Scherwin still has from Alexandra ?

[Carolath Habsburg]

Nope,  alexandra didnt wear the fringe tiara at her wedding. Check it out





That doesnt look like her fringe tiara.

[Alejandro Spain]

Maybe the same little crown that Ortrud wore when she married Ernst August in1951?

Regards!

[Carolath Habsburg]

it doesnt look like the "butterfly tiara" either

(via royalweddings)



Close up of the tiara, compliments to Manuesevilla!




I think its just the same tiara you posted in page 1 ;-)

[ashdean]

Nope,  alexandra didnt wear the fringe tiara at her wedding. Check it out

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3249/2539222044_0899e32032_o.jpg

http://img638.imageshack.us/img638/3497/thyrwe.jpg

That doesnt look like her fringe tiara.

I have a pic from the sale of the Mecklenberg Schwerin family paintings and furniture which shows the newly wed couple with Alexandra wearing the fringe....perhaps it was a pre wedding ball or at a reception afterward.

[Alejandro Spain]

it doesnt look like the "butterfly tiara" either

(via royalweddings)



Close up of the tiara, compliments to Manuesevilla!




I think its just the same tiara you posted in page 1 ;-)

Ortrud wore, behind the little diadem, the nuptial crown of the Hanover:

http://www.royal-magazin.de/german/hannover/hannover-brautkrone.htm

Regards!

[Carolath Habsburg]

That one!! yes, i think its that little diadem plus another tiara. Pity the image is so small, i ant tell which one and doesnt look like the fringe one.

[Eric_Lowe]

What about the aquamarine necklace set she was wearing ? 

[Marc]

I have a pic from the sale of the Mecklenberg Schwerin family paintings and furniture which shows the newly wed couple with Alexandra wearing the fringe....perhaps it was a pre wedding ball or at a reception afterward.

Is there any chance for us to see it? I would love...

[Alejandro Spain]

What about the aquamarine necklace set she was wearing ? 

The necklace was made with pink topazes:



Regards!

[Eric_Lowe]

Thanks ! Was that part of Ortrud's dowry ?

[Alejandro Spain]

Sorry, I don't know if it came from Ortrud's family or from Ernst August side...

Regards!

[Carolath Habsburg]

http://www.royal-magazin.de/german/hannover/hannover-blueten-diadem.htm

There  it says that probably was brought by Viktoria Luise as a wedding present to her.

[Eric_Lowe]

Thanks. This lovely piece is now part of the Hannoverian Jewelry collection. I wonder did Princess Caroline ever worn it ?