Countess Bessborough Diamond Tiara Chaumet Diadem | England British Aristocratic Noble Jewel History

Countess Bessborough Diamond Tiara Chaumet Diadem | England British Aristocratic Noble Jewel History

Lady Bessborough's tiara, with the Navette diamond, given to her husband by his colleagues at De Beers on his appointment as Governor General of Canada. The magnificent tiara was made by the French jeweller Chaumet in 1931 and was gifted to the 9th Earl of Bessborough, at the occasion of his appointment to Governor General of Canada. For this important new position a new tiara was necessary. The amazing tiara was designed in an Art Deco style with thousands of diamonds and in the centre a big marquise-cut diamond. The diamonds are set in platinum. The Countess wore the tiara in several official photographs and at important evening events with the royal family. In 1938, the Countess lent the tiara to her friend and the wife of the then US ambassador Rose Kennedy when she was invited to present her unmarried daughters at court (debutante ball) at St. James's Palace in London. The Bessborough tiara was also worn at the coronation of King George VI in 1937 at Westminster Abbey. Lord Bessborough was appointed to his high office in 1931, and succeeded the present Viceroy of India, H.E. the Earl of Willingdon, who had ruled in Canada since 1926. Lord Willingdon, of course, was going back to a land he knew well, for he had been Governor in both Bombay and Madras, but Canada cannot fail to be a pleasant and enduring memory. Lord Bessborough is an Old Harrovian and served through the Great War with the Yeomanry. Lady Bessborough, whom he married in 1912, is a French woman, and the only daughter of the Baron de Neuflise. She is our only French-horn Peeress and was Mile. Roberte de Neuflqe. Her father is the French banker Baron de Neuflqe. Her French birth makes her particularly interesting to French-Canadians.   JULY 3, 1912.The wedding of Lord Duncannon and Mlle. Roberta de Neuflize drew le tout Paris of first representations at the Opera House. It was solemnised with the austere simplicity of French Protestantism at the Temple of the Avenue de la Grande Armee. The bride is nineteen, has a brother aged thirty, is extremely goodlooking, animates without any feverishness her toilette, which on this occasion was of ivory satin made in a truly classical style, and a veil of that old point d'Angleterre which came out of a school founded in England by a Huguenot lady from Alencon for the daughters of humble co-religionists whom the revocation of the Edict of Nantes obliged to fly from France. It was attached to a luxuriant head of hair of the Have auburn hue—the hue most prized by Venetian painters, and not to be mistaken for red hair. Her figure is fairly tall, and is of easy movement and of a perfect mould. She is said to be highly and seriously educated, to be a good golf player and equestrian, and to be of agreeable conversation. The bridegroom is very much of the Ponsonby type, is tall, slender, fair, has neatly cut features, an air without anything that approaches la morgue anglaise, and unites aristocratic breeding with amiability. He might be a diplomat; but it appears that he prefers to be a county councillor, and as such has won the esteem of his colleagues. The Countess of Bessborough and Baroness de Neuflize joined to present the jewels the bride is to wear this season on grand occasions—namely, a diadem of emeralds set in brilliants, a necklace and pendant, and a brooch and badge to match. At the Temple she wore simply a large pearl serving as a brooch. The religious wedding ceremony in a French Protestant temple admits of nothing theatrical. The pastor wears a black gown and white muslin bands. He addresses an admonition to the pair whose hands he has tied, and presents them with a family Bible in which the date of their marriage is written. A few flowers are set on the communion table. This is about all. It was feared by some that Protestant austerity might take offence at the six youthful bridesmaids and the six pages. But it did not. They were deliciously pretty and mostly fair, three being French from eastern France and three English, and wore in honour of the bride's nationality a uniform dress of mitigated tricolor—that is to say, pink, pale blue, and white. The file past in the vestry room before bride and bridegroom included Rothschilds from everywhere, and Baron Edmond de Rothschild, the last of the three brothers who for forty years managed the Rue de Lafitte bank, had acted as best man. Baron Henri de Rothschild lent Lord and Lady Duncannon their restored abbey of Vaux Cernay for the honeymoon residence. The whole kith and kin, now so widespread in the world, sent splendid presents, especially the English Rothschilds. But though there were gifts enough to set up a jeweller in a great way in Paris, there was no display of any gifts but those coming from od friends and relatives on both sides. Indeed there was an avoidance of everything that might betoken a wish 'to show off that cannot be too often followed. Wealth is now so often swaggeringly vain that this reserve deserves to be noted. Baroness de Neuflize belongs to a great manufacturing family in Alsace, the Dolfuss-Davilliers. She wears remarkably well, and seems kindly as she is comely. The Baron was pronounced good looking, with his white hair, upright bearing, clean build, well-cut features, and keen but frank glance, l'honnete homme et la gentilhomme, whether in carrying through his great business undertakings or in the hunting field. He and the Comte Hello de Noailles, a grandson-in-law of the late Baron Charles de Rothschild, of Frankfort, own the Ermenonville pack of hounds and hunt in the forest of that name. The religious ceremony took place at the Church of the Etoile, Avenue de la Grande Armee, Paris, on Tuesday, June 25th, M. le Pasteur Santter officiating. The bride's witnesses were Baron Mallet and Lieut.- Col. Dollfus, and the bridegroom's the British Ambassador (Sir Francis Bertie) and Baron Edmond de Rothschild. The bride wore a graceful dress of Ivory vestale soft satin, draped in ancient Greek style. The dress was very simple, and its whole beauty was in its lines. A line of orange blossom ran from the bottom of the skirt to the drapery of the bodice, finishing with a srnall bouquet. The train was long and soft and was lined with pleated chiffon. There was a small wreath of orange blossom, and the whole figure was covered by the Malines tulle veil. The bride was attended by Lady Gweneth Ponsonby, Mdlle. Genevieve Verdet, Mdlle. Helene Lome, Mdlle. Jacqueline Girod, Mdlle. de Maupean and Mdlle. Illobirt de Neufillse. Sir Alfred de Rothschild, and Mr. Leopold de Rothschild send a cheque. There were also four little train-bearers—Mdlle. Marie Madeline de Neuflin, Mdlle. Genevieve de Neuflize, Mdlle. Yvonne Mirabaud and M. Maurice Mirabaud. Hon. 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