Denmark Queen Alexandrine’s wedding gifts


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Denmark Queen Alexandrine’s wedding gifts
Fürstenberg Tiara |Pearl and Diamond Fleur de Lys Diadem| Princess Paula zu Fürstenberg nee Countess Königsegg
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
Diamond Brooch in the form of the Russian Imperial Crown, set with 149 diamonds of abourt 21,1 carats. The two largest diamonds are ca 6,8ct and 7,3ct.
This brooch and 17 others were executed on the order of Tsar Nicholas II to Carl Faberge .
The brooch cost 4000 silver roubles.
These brooches were Imperial gifts presented on 24. May 1894. The day before the coronation of Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna.
They were given both to the Grand Duchesses living in Russia and also to those that had, trough their marriages, become queens or duchesses outside Russia and attend the coronation.
This was given to Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna who married in 1879 Grand Duke Friedrich Franz von Mecklenburg-Schwerin.
Their daughter Alexandrine inherited this brooch in 1922. She married in 1898 the Danish Crown Prince Christian. Later Queen Alexandrine of Denmark left it to her daughter-in-law Princess Caroline-Mathilde (Prince Knud’s wife). In 1995 the brooch was inherited by her daughter, Princess Elisabeth of Denmark.
Princess Elisabeth of Denmark, left it to The Royal Danish Collection in her will.
Carl Faberge also executed brooches, in this design but larger diamonds, for the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna 10 000 roubles and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna 12 000 roubles. The Queen of Siam was also presented with such a brooch in 1897 the price beeing 5100 roubles.
Wedding Gift from the Countess of Paris to her daughter-in-law, the famous parure of Sapphire from the House of Orleans. Sapphire Diamond Stomacher, Sapphire Diamond Tiara, Sapphire Diamond Necklace.
She ordered to rebuild the delicate and exquisite Chaumet Garland Ruby Jewel, around the year 1942, to make a new choker from the Burma Rubies in Egyptian style with palmette.
Royal Oriental Circlet Tiara von Marie Großherzogin von Russland, Prinzessin von Großbritannien und Irland, Herzogin von Edinburgh und Herzogin von Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha | Hochzeitsgeschenk von Königin Victoria
Diamant Diadem Hochzeitsgeschenk der Queen Victoria |Königlicher Schmuck | Sachsen Coburg Gotha Großfürstin Marie-Alexandrowna
Royal Falize Tiara of Marie Grand Duchess of Russia
never realised….only an idea!
Princess Louise of France was the youngest daughter of Philippe d’Orléans 1838–1894, Count of Paris and claimant to the French throne as „Philippe VII“. Her mother was Princess Marie Isabelle d’Orléans 1848–1919, daughter of Antoine, Duke of Montpensier, and Infanta Luisa Fernanda of Spain.
In the year 1907, Princess Louise of Orleans married Infant Carlos Prince of Bourbon Two Sicilies and widower of María de las Mercedes, Princess of Asturias.
The emerald suite, emerald pendant, emerald brooches, emerald stomacher, emerald tiara , emerald necklace, emerald medieval diadem, emerald pear shaped large pendant, was not personal property of the Grand Duchesses, this was part of the Hessian Jewelry Treasure.
Princess Alice wore this part of the royal jewels as a clasp on a pearl necklace with the large pear shaped pendant. It was later altered and arranged with diamonds, in the medieval suite with matching tiara, an impressive circlet of cabochon-cut stones set in clusters and rose diamonds in 1905 from Koch, Frankfurt made by Kreuter, Hanau.
Princess Alix of Hessen, lent it for one costume ball in the year 1893, it was not her own.
Die Schwester der Kaiserin. Louise Sophie wurde als Tochter des Herzogs Friedrich VIII. von Schleswig-Holstein (1829–1880) und dessen Ehefrau Prinzessin Adelheid zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1835–1900), Tochter des Fürsten Ernst I. zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg und dessen Gattin Prinzessin Feodora zu Leiningen geboren.