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TIARAS of the Tudors Ladies
Tiarasworn by "The Tudors" Ladies*please don't post pictures already posted on The Royal Crowns page here Click EasyEdit to add to this page! |
| The purpose of a crown or tiara has always been, to portray the wearer as someone special, someone ordained by the gods. Those origins are as ancient as society itself, and every culture had some form of headdress or crown. The term `tiara' originates in ancient Persia, where only the king was allowed to tie his tiara up so that it stood erect. It was tall and conical in shape and richly ornamented with jewels. Later papal tiaras had a similar shape. Tiaras can be traced back to antiquity when they crowned heads of royal mummies in ancient Egypt, and Grecian goldsmiths created them for statues of their Gods and priests. The Greeks awarded tiaras to the victors of contests, and people of high rank wore them at special occasions. The Romans also adopted the tiara, and used it to denote rank and honour. In Napoleonic times, tiaras which were made for women of the court were inspired by ancient Rome, designs being symmetrical and simple, with decorative elements such as laurel and olive leaves. NB. In Tudor times, headdresses like hoods, coifs & hats were more common than tiaras |
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| LINKS: | LITERATURE: Tiaras ; A History of Splendour by Goffrey C. Munn |
 Tiaras actually worn by Royalty Queen Elizabeth II owns the largest and most valuable collection of tiaras in the world |
 The Spencer Tiara The tiara is entirely a composite with the central element being a gift from Lady Sarah Spencer to Cynthia, Viscountess Althorpe as a wedding present in 1919. It was later remounted. Four other elements were made to match it in 1937. Only the two elements at the end are old and are said to have come from a tiara owned by Francis, Viscountess Montagu and left to Lady Sarah Spencer in 1875. It was worn by Lady Diana Spencer when she married the Prince of Wales in 1981 and was subsequently used by Victoria Lockwood when she married the 9th Earl in 1989 (The Earl Spencer).  |  The Cambridge Lover Knot Tiara Queen Mary had made in 1914 to her own design and from pearls and diamonds that were already in her possession. Princess Diana wore it & it is now regularly worn by Prince Charles 2nd wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall   |  diamond tiara. Queen Alexandra, the wife of King Edward VII, commissioned Garrard's to create this tiara in the style of a Russian peasant girl's headdress. Her sister Princess Dagmar, who had become Empress Marie of Russia, had a similar tiara which was the inspiration for the Kokoshnik. It is composed of sixty-one platium bars and filled with 488 diamonds.  |
 The Girls of Gt. Britain and Ireland Tiara In 1893 a committee was formed by Lady Eve Greville to raise money for the “Girls of Great Britain and Ireland” to purchase a wedding gift for Princess May of Teck, the future Queen Mary.  The Current Queen Elizabeth II wears the Tiara frequently.  Queen Mary |  The Boucheron Tiara (Honeycomb tiara) The Boucheron tiara was left to Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother by the Hon. Mrs Greville from Boucheron in London on 8th January, 1921. It was made up from the customers stones which were taken from an old tiara.  Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall  The Late Queen Mother, Elizabeth |  The Fife Tiara Given to Princess Louise of Wales (below) (daughter of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra) on her marriage by her husband the Duke of Fife.  The Illustrated London News of August 3, 1889 has the following description "The Prince and Princess of Wales presented their daughter with a beautiful tiara of fine brilliants, of elegant design of alternating and graduating rays, varying from nearly two inches long in the centre to half an inch at the extreme ends. By a simple arrangement it also forms a beautiful and graceful necklace."  |
 The PoltimoreTiara Created by the famed jewelers Garrards in 1870 for Lady Poltimore, this grand tiara was famous mostly for its more recent owner, the queen's sister - HRH Princess Margaret who died in 2002. The children of the late Princess, Viscount Linley and Lady Sarah Chatto, sold this and other items at an auction at Christie's in 2006 to pay the inheritance tax due on her estate.    |  The Delhi Durbar Tiara Queen Mary wearing the Delhi Durbar Tiara and the Cambridge emeralds which were won in a lottery by her family the Tecks and the Cullinan diamonds  Loaned to Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall by the queen. The circlet was made by Garrards, especially for Queen Mary during the Delhi Durbar on December 12,1911 - hence its name. Durbar is Hindi, for a 'ceremonial gathering to pay homage'. The gathering was to install King George V and Queen Mary as Emperor and Empress of India. King George V admired this piece and referred to it as "May's best tiara". It was originally worn with detachable emerald drops and at the Durbar, Queen Mary wore it over a crimson velvet cap.  |  The Vladimir Tiara This tiara is a genuine Russian article, made by a Russian jeweller for the Grand Duchess Vladimir. During the Russian Revolution, the Duchess moved with her family to safety while her jewels were hidden in a vault in the Vladimir Palace. The looters never found the treasure, and a member of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service friendly with the Duchess' family managed to rescue the jewels and send them back to her.The Duchess commissioned the tiara to have Oriental pearl drops, as seen in the above. This is the original design. When Queen Mary bought the tiara from Princess Nicolas of Greece, Duchess Vladimir's daughter, she had the last of her Cambridge emeralds made into drops and set in the tiara (above). These emeralds are interchangeable with the pearls, and both styles are worn by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II today. *Jane Seymour wears a copy of this tiara in the series - see above   The Vladimir Tiara can be worn without the pearls & as below with a set of emerald drops.  |
 The Burmese Tiara contains 9g diamonds and rubies done in the shape of flowers it was purchased by the queen in 1973 and the rubies represent the healing properties the diamonds were a gift from the Nizam of Hyderbad and also the necklace the queen wears too a stunning piece |  The Aquamarine Tiara necklace and earring make up a set from the people of Brazil who gave them to the queen as a coronation gift the necklace first bracelet then tiara and earrings |  Diamond and Sapphire Tiara, Necklace & Earrings |
 Greek Key Tiara (belonging to Princess Alice of Greece and Princess Anne)  Princess Anne |  The Aquamarine Tiara of Princess Anne  Princess Anne |  Queen Mary wearing the Vladimir |
Papyrus Tiara Queen Mother as a young girl wearing the Tiara. On the right, Her daughter Princess Margaret wearing it.  |  Princess Margaret wearing the Papyrus Tiara  Lady Serena Stanhope, Viscountess Linley (wife of David Armstrong-Jones, Viscount Linley) |  The Queen wearing the Oriental-Circlet-Tiara with rubies and diamonds, in Valetta, Malta. This also called Indian-Ruby-Tiara was one of the favourite headjewels of the late Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother.  Queen Mother wearing the Oriental Circlet |
  This tiara was purchased for Sarah, Duchess of York. It was made by Garrard's The Royal Jewelers. It has a diamond on top and an elegant floral design. |  The Festoon Diamond Tiara Princess Anne |  Alexandra, Princess of Denmark (Queen of Great Britain) The Mystery Tiara To solve the provenance of the tiara on the left, we could read in "The Scotsman 21 June 1946" the following pre-auction report: Tiara that came from a Tsar The important diamond and amethyst tiara was composed of seven single oval amethysts graduating from the centre to lozm flowers, supported by twin leaves and single diamonds within a graduated oval diamond frame, each intersected by diamond bars, with single diamond tops, and supported by twin diamond semi-circles, with single line diamond base. The beautiful diamond and amethyst tiara,and the sapphire and diamond collar, were both gifts to her from Tsar Alexander III., and bequeathed from her to the Duchess of Fife, mother of Lady Southesk, from whom the late owner inherited them.The diamond and amethyst necklace was specially designed to the order of Queen Alexandra. |
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