Lovely pics ! Thanks for showing it. The brooch I saw was the one she wore on her waist in her purple/blue dress. It was a big brooch with a drop.
That brooch was defintely emerald not sapphire.
A rather large cabuchon emerald with pendant,yes.No one knows where it went,all we know is that Leopold,in his blindness what he mistook for love,just gave in easily on this womans every wimp.As a substitute for the sorely missed title of Queen,something this woman had great difficulty with dealing.The whole jewelry department of the House was dispersed to a woman not only strongly dislked for her being a golddigger pur sang,but as the impossible character she was too,the people have never accepted her,she was seen as the one who tackled Leo as the first the best who** would have done,and Leo was so blinded and hated the use of zippers that he fell into the ,oh,give it a name yourself.Later,she had a overpowerring influence on her stepson Baudouin.So much so that it almost seemed as a,well,"unhealthy relation",a coniving old bat she was.So much so,then when Baudouin finally married,Fabiola as one of her first acts as Queen Consort,kicked her about and ousted her from the Palace.Oh,Leo & Lilian went,and so went all the furniture and treasures of the Palace or Laeken Castle as its officially called.
It took Baudouin and Fabiola years to at least get some of it back.She,and Baroness de Vaughan,are the two least liked charcters in Belgium and both did the same
