Queen Camilla.Photo: Tim Rooke/Shutterstock
Queen Camillamight have a favorite tiara!
The Queen Consort, 75, glittered in theBelgian Sapphire Tiaraen route to a reception for the Diplomatic Corps at Buckingham Palace on Tuesday night. Camilla was photographed riding in a car with her husbandKing Charles IIIwearing a black Anna Valentine gown that didn’t distract from her statement headpiece. She paired the Belgian Sapphire Tiara with its coordinating necklace and bracelet — a set straight fromQueen Elizabeth’s jewelry box.
Queen Camilla’s tiara moment is her second in two weeks, and a royal repeat of the jewels she chose. On Nov. 22, the Queen Consortshimmered in the same suitefor a state banquet at Buckingham Palace, her first tiara wear since King Charles acceded to the throne.
While Camilla opted to wear a different pair of sapphire drop earrings than those that typically go with the Belgian Sapphire tiara, the whole set together is known as the King George VI Victorian Suite. King George gave his daughter, the then-Princess Elizabeth, the tiara, necklace and earrings as a wedding gift in 1947. The jewels are believed to date back to the mid-1800s, with the bracelet added to the suite in the 1960s.
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Queen Elizabethwore the sapphire sparkler in Singapore in 1989 and for China’s state visit to the U.K. in 2015.
The Queen Consort has historically had bolder taste in tiaras than Princess Kate, 40, who stylishly surprised with herchoice of tiaraon Tuesday night.
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While the Princess of Wales most recently wore theQueen Mary’s Lover’s Knot tiarafor the state banquet with the President of South Africa last month, she accessorized with the delicateLotus Flowertiara for the Diplomatic Corps reception at Buckingham Palace.
source: people.com
