Denmark Queen Alexandrine’s wedding gifts


Denmark Queen Alexandrine’s wedding gifts
„Two sprays of mixed flowers, entirely pavéd with diamonds, meet at the large, open wild rose in the center. The sprays can also be worn as brooches. The diamonds, set in flowers, are recorded in the Heathcote inventory of 1786 and have descended in the same family since
Grand Duchess Vladimir | Diamond Coronation Brooch 1896 | Romanov Imperial Crown one of the
Grand Duchess Vladimir’s Jewel Collection
Platinum Chaumet Kokoshnik with blue enamel | from the Collection of the Duke of Westminster
Fürstenberg Tiara |Pearl and Diamond Fleur de Lys Diadem| Princess Paula zu Fürstenberg nee Countess Königsegg
Wedding Present to the Countess Irma Schönborn-Buchheim in 1889 from the grooms mother, „Mama Fürstenberg“ Princess Leontine of Fürstenberg née Kevenhüller-Metsch.
Natural Pearl and Diamond Tiara | Fürstin Irma von Fürstenberg Diadem |Princess Fürstenberg
Eleven diamond motives in the design of a double fleur-de-lys, twenty-three pear-shaped pearls (three larger ones) are all fixed on an old-cut diamond frame.
This is the way that tiara must have been worn at the imperial court in Vienna and Berlin, by its then owner the princess of Fürstenberg née countess Irma of Schönborn Buchheim
The danish crown jewels, Frederik IX’s pipe collection and the more than 400-year-old Rosenborg wine are among the many objects that appear in the program series „The Queen’s Treasury“, which from tonight and the next Tuesdays will be broadcast on DR 1.
The museum collection Kongernes Samling contains Danish kings and queens‘ central objects and works of art, and the program series follows the creation of the exhibitions „A Queen’s Jewelry Box“ and „Mary & the Crown Princesses“, which are currently on display at the Amalienborg Museum and Koldinghus, respectively.
The exhibitions have been created in collaboration with Her Majesty the Queen and Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess, and the programs are included when the Queen and the Crown Princess take part in the preparations for the new exhibitions. The first episode of „The Queen’s Treasury“ will be broadcast tonight at 20.30 on DR1.https://www.dr.dk/drtv/se/dronningens-skatkammer_-smykker-der-taler_307886
Queen Alexandrine’s sapphire diadem was bought in 2018 by an unknown at auction in Denmark. Now it turns out that it was probably Queen Margrethe who was the buyer.
The sapphire diadem, which was sold at auction almost four years ago, now appears in the Queen’s jewelery collection.
In the broadcast „Dronningens Skatkammer“ on DR1, a secret is revealed.
Namely who in 2018 bought the Danish-Russian sapphire diadem. There are many indications that it was Queen Margrethe herself. And that will please many Danes.
In the program „Dronningens Skatkammer“ you see the special diamond and sapphire tiara being exhibited together with numerous royal jewelery in „Kongernes Samling“ at Koldinghus.
The three countesses had inherited the historic Danish-Russian diadem from their mother, Countess Anne Dorte, and in December 2018 they sold the expensive diadem for two million kroner at the auction.
There were many Danes who at the time believed that the precious jewelry belonged in Denmark, and with the Danish royal family. And much now it seems that Queen Margrethe meant it too.
The three countesses of Rosenborg, Josephine, Camilla and Feodora, who had inherited the jewelry from their father, Count Christian of Rosenborg and mother, Countess Anne Dorte, sold the tiara.
The royal couple themselves passed the jewelery on in 1933 to their daughter-in-law, Crown Princess Caroline-Mathilde, at her wedding in Fredensborg Castle Church with the king’s youngest son, Crown Prince Knud.
It was he and his sons who lost the right to inherit the throne when a new succession law was passed in 2953, because his older brother, Frederik X „only“ had three daughters, Margrethe, Benedikte and Anne-Marie.
After Caroline-Mathilde’s death in 1995, the youngest of her children, her son Count Christian of Rosenborg and his family inherited diadem, and they have kept the jewelry until it was sold in 2018.
The first episode of the TV series „Dronningens Skatkammer“, where you see the sapphire diadem, was shown on DR1 Tuesday 12 April. But can also be seen on DRTV.