Above the tiara of Beatrice Mills, Countess Granard, the diadem of diamonds and calibre sapphires made by Cartier, London in the Indian tast is made for her in 1922.
She was a regular client of Cartier London and was ont of the last great buyers of kokoshniks, she ordered one in 1922, another in 1923 and a third kokoshnik in 1937- the big one for the coronation.
LADY GRANARD'S DEBUT |HER SENSATIONAL JEWELS
The Countess of Granard had her Court dress from Paris.
It is of white satin, soft and rich, with a design raised on it in velvet. It was raised a little at the back, giving a little Empire effect. The lines were kept long, and the dress was draped with most rare old lace. The train was quite narrow at the top, growing gradually wider to the hem it was attached at the back, under a large ornament of white diamonds, and it was lined with silver tissue. A round crown-shaped tiara, collar, necklet, and ornaments of diamonds were worn.
The Countess went to Court in a royal carriage, her husband being Master of the Horse. His full dress is very gorgeous. The scarlet tunic has seventeen rows, double, of gold-plait em broidery on it ten above the waist, seven below. It is practically a mass of gold. The collar and cuffs are blue velvet and are ornamented handsomely with gold, and there are gold shoulder-cords and aiguillettes. The blue- cloth trousers have scarlet-cloth stripes down the sides. The sword is a thing of beauty. It has a scimitar blade, with a Mameluke hilt and an ivory-and-gilt horse's head grip.
The scabbard is steel, with gilt mountings. His Majesty's Master of the Horse in full dress presents a gallant figure. There was a wonderful show of jewels at the Court. It was remarked that many were in periods to match, down to the smallest ornament, the dresses with which they were worn. This following of fashion in jewelled ornaments, and wearing them so that there is perfect artistic harmony, is due largely to the enterprise .
From the Daily Chronicle 1909
Lady Granard's jewels were quite sensational and include the splenid pointed tiara of diamonds, which was the gift of her parents, the collar given by Mrs Whitelaw Reid, the necklace from her grandfather and a dazzling corsage ornament the gift of her grandmother Mrs Livingstones.(see the wedding gift - from the NY Evening World)
Pall Mall Gazette May 23th 1911 Coronation Year
Here were to be seen Mrs Whitelaw Reid in black, with long old lace panels, passing down the front of the dress, and following the line of the trian, a riviere of magnificent diamonds, a diamond dog collar of many strands, longer at the base, so as to resemble a necklace, a corsage ornament of diamond which spread right across the corsage, and a dimond tiara, mad a veritalb flashing blaze. In no degreee less brillant were the jewels worn by her niece, Lady Granard who, whith a dress of the faintest shade of mauve satin, matched by the bunch of pale lavender sweet peas she wore in her corsage, wore a tiara formed by five large diamonds hearts in the centre of each of which hung a large single diamond, a high dog collar of diamonds and anecklace of five strands of diamonds.
Pall Mall Gazette 11th May 1911
Lady Granard who was in palest pink with the separete train lined with blue and small Russian tiara of diamonds.
In 1924 from the court... The scene in the Throne Room is, of course, always most interesting, and the red benches were well occupied, 'Lady Granard (whose wonderful Cartier all-round tiara of diamonds, with pear-shaped sapphires, was conspicuous, even among the sumptuous display of jewels) was seated a little higher up . Lady Aberconway's fairy like diamond crown, with a veil of lace falling from it, was another much-admired ornament, and so were Mrs. Beaumont's family jewels.
Source:The San Francisco call;, "Daily Mail" Telegraphs;
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