More large pear-shaped diamonds alternate with round diamonds along the top of the tiara.
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The tiara has diamonds mounted in silver and gold and the design is dominated by a series of pear-shaped diamonds that hang freely in a Gothic-inspired diamond framework. The Fife Tiara was a wedding gift to Princess Louise of Wales, the oldest daughter of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra, for her marriage to the Earl of Fife in 1889.
That’s not about to stop it from taking home your runner up ribbon:
This tiara, on the other hand, racked up most of its appearances well over a century ago with very little since and hardly any public exposure. Some of the tiaras on your list get popularity boosts from the fact that they’re worn all the time, often by very famous figures. It's almost a tiara designed for universal approval. This design really hits a lot of sweet spots: the scrolls give the tiara interest without being an overpowering motif the top line isn't solid like a kokoshnik but is still fairly even all around it's not an enormous diadem but it's far from small. Queen Mary, with and without the pearls and the base Queen Elizabeth II, with and without the base We revisited its whole history last year, click here to refresh your memory. Along the way, the diamond design of festoons and scrolls lost the original top row of pearls and was separated from and then later reunited with its original diamond lozenge base. The Girls of Great Britain and Ireland Tiara began as an 1893 wedding gift to the future Queen Mary from the "girls of Great Britain and Ireland" and was passed on to the future Queen Elizabeth II as a wedding gift in 1947. The Girls of Great Britain and Ireland Tiara You called it iconic, you called it the epitome of tiara-ness, you called it your best. Some of the entries on your final list of ten favorite tiaras provoked heated competition, but in the end, none could touch the queen of them all. The new addition joins Princess Leonor, 3, and Prince Nicholas, 2, and is due in March 2018. Roll on, Swedish royal baby boom! It was announced on Sunday that Princess Madeleine is expecting her third child with husband Chris O'Neill. The tiara's complete story has been updated and you can revisit it here. Queen Victoria's Sapphire Coronet was given as a wedding gift to Princess Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood, and was sold by her descendants to a dealer sometime in the past several years. Hedge fund tycoon William Bollinger - already the benefactor behind the museum's stunning jewelry gallery, which is named for him and his wife - stepped in, bought the tiara, and gifted it to the V&A. On Sunday we finally heard the outcome: the tiara is now a part of the collection at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London! Excellent news, and such a perfectly appropriate home for this gem. A year ago, news broke that Queen Victoria's Sapphire Coronet had been sold to an overseas buyer and been placed under a temporary export ban in the hopes of finding another buyer that would keep this Prince Albert-designed diamond and sapphire tiara in the United Kingdom. Three pieces of good news to start your week, how about that?
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