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The royal tiara consisting of five elements of 3-petalled clover with a base of arcanthus, all set with diamonds, with a larger diamond at the centre of each cloverleaf. The cloverleaves are placed on a base and connected by garlands. In the middle the largest element to the left and right.
The cloverleaf tiara is made with 4 old cut diamonds add. ca.10 ct, as well as with numerous diamonds partly in diamond cut add. ca. 37 ct, gold. and was delivered around 1900 by "Joh. Wagner & Sohn Königl. Hofjuweliere Berlin W. Unter den Linden 30"
Possibly the ducal crown was chosen by Duchess Friederike von Cumberland as a impression of this model.
The Tiara is from the possession of Princess Olga of Hanover and Cumberland, Duchess of Braunschweig and Lüneburg, Princess of Great Britain and Ireland 1884-1958.
Olga was the youngest daughter of Ernst August, Crown Prince of Hanover (1845-1923) and Thyra of Denmark (1853-1933), the youngest daughter of Christian IX of Denmark (1818-1906) and Louise of Hesse-Kassel (1817-1898). Olga was a great-great granddaughter of George III of the United Kingdom (1738-1820) and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1744-1818). Thus niece of the Russian Empress and the English Queen, a good match.
Princess Olga lived with her family in Gmunden and remained unmarried throughout her life. Some marriage intentions of princes from the European royal houses were again and again topics of conversation, and failed, probably also this Tiara comes from the time.
Her nephew Ernst August IV Prince of Hanover and his wife Princess Ortrud of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg named their second eldest daughter after her.
The Tiara was auctioned 2019 for about EUR40.300,- in the Dorotheum Austria, without any provinience.
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