Maharaja Jam Shri Sir RANJITSINHJI VIBHAJI, 19th Maharaja Jam Sahib of Nawanagar 1906/1933, born 10th September 1872 as Kumar Shri Ranjitsinhji Jiwansinhji, son of Maharaj Shri Jiwansinhji Jalamsinhji of Sarodar, adopted by HH Maharaja Jam Sahib Vibhaji II Ranmalji as his successor, educated at Rajkumar College, Rajkot and at Trinity College,
Princess Katharina Bagration pictured with a large cluster and diamond shoulder brooch, in the size of the center stone – in the spinel diamond comb of her spinel and diamond parure.
Probably she could change the stones and the spinel are wearable as single brooch.
The barely seventeen-year-old Princess Cecilia of Baden (1839-1891) married on August 16, 1857 the Grand Duke Mikhail Nikolayevich Romanov (1832-1909), the youngest son of Tsar Nicholas I and Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna. Prior to marrying, it was necessary for Cecilia to accept the Russian Orthodox faith. So she was baptized on August 15, 1857 in a ceremony, being given the name Olga Feodorovna Ольга Фёдоровна.
Her jewelry is famous, and her sapphire parure was later owned by two of her children the Grand Duchess Anastasia Michaelovna Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg Schwerin and her Grand Duke Mikhail Mikhailovich Romanov, who sells them to Henry Lascelles, later the Earl of Harewood, it was his wedding gift to Princess Mary of Great Britain, see in the picture below.
She wore it as stomacher and devante de corsage, or used single ornaments as brooches. The Princess Royal had no pierced ears, so she wore no earrings.
The Romanov sapphire and diamond necklace, was sold, but two items in knot design are still worn by the Countess Harewood, Andrea Lascelles on her wedding day and later when she was seen with Queen Victoria’s Sapphire Coronet, probably as earrings.
Earlier the brooch was called the ‚Jardine Star Brooch‘ and is said to have been left to The Queen by someone called Lady Jardine in 1981, but these are wrong.
Author Leslie Field in wrote in her book ‚The Queen’s Jewels‘ but it’s false.
This gift she received from her parents in wartime and was her coming out birthday in 1942.
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