The Lothian family also appears to possess, or at least to have access to, a remarkable antique diamond tiara of Georgian character, recently worn at the wedding of Lady Amabel Kerr to Bartholomew Martelli and reportedly also at the wedding of the Earl of Ancram in May 2026. See above.
The jewel has not yet been securely identified in published sources. Its delicate openwork design suggests an early nineteenth-century or Georgian inspiration with diamond palmette and diamond cluster elements, setted of large old-mine diamonds. Until a family inventory, auction reference, or jeweller’s archive entry can be found, the tiara should be described as an unidentified historic diamond tiara associated with the Lothian/Kerr family.
Above, THE MARCHIONESS OF LOTHIAN is the wife of the twelfth Marquess who succeeded in 1940. She was Miss Antonella Newland and is the only daughter of the late General Sir Foster Newland K.C.M.G. C.B. and of Mrs. William Carr and a granddaughter of the late General Count Salazar.
Lady Jane Fitzalan-Howard, later Marchioness of Lothian and 16th Lady Herries of Terregles. She is the widow of the 13th Marquess of Lothian, was shown wearing the historic Lothian diamond tiara. Born the fourth daughter of the 16th Duke of Norfolk, she married into the Kerr family, Marquesses of Lothian. The delicate Georgian-style diamond tiara has remained associated with the family.
The Marchioness of Lothian wore also the - the Lothian Emeralds...
This magnificent antique emerald and diamond suite comprises a necklace designed as a graduated line of rectangular-cut emeralds alternating with old-cut diamonds, each set in raised collets. The necklace suspends a fringe of pear-shaped emeralds and has a detachable centre set with an octagonal domed cabochon emerald within an old-cut diamond surround, terminating in an emerald drop.
The suite is completed by a pair of ear pendants en suite, each set with a briolette emerald within a diamond border. Mounted in silver and gold, circa 1830. Necklace length: 33.0 cm. Ear pendants: 3.5 cm long.
The long-held family tradition that the emeralds in the necklace were presented to the 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire by Catherine the Great remains a fascinating element in an already prestigious provenance. Although no documentary literature has yet verified the Russian origin of the stones, the emeralds form an intrinsic part of a jewel that has adorned generations of British aristocratic women.
Source:Diana Scarsbrick;Archive Ursula Butschal;Christies 2008;
