Hesse Emerald Jewelry| Grand Duchess Alice| Grand Duchess Eleonore| Grand Duchess Cecilie Medival Emerald Diadem Pears Shaped Emeralds Suite

Hesse Emerald Jewelry| Grand Duchess Alice,| Grand Duchess Eleonore| Grand Duchess Cecilie Medival Emerald Diadem Pears Shaped Emeralds Suite
Hesse Emerald Jewelry| Grand Duchess Alice | Großherzogin Alice von Hessen Smaragd Anhänger, Smaragd Brosche aus dem Hessischen Hausschatz
Hesse Medieval Emerald Tiara  Hesse Medieval Emerald Choker Hesse Emerald Jewelry| Grand Duchess Alice,| Grand Duchess Eleonore| Grand Duchess Cecilie Medival Emerald Diadem Pears Shaped Emeralds Suite|  Großherzogin von Hessen
Hesse Emerald ChokerHesse Emerald Jewelry| Grand Duchess Eleonore| Grand Duchess Cecilie Medieval Emerald Diadem Pears Shaped Emeralds Suite – on the bottom – Princess Cecile of Greece and Denmark married the hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse and By Rhine. The sister of the late Duke of Edinburgh died tragically young in an air crash in 1937.

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.

Hesse Medival Tiara Hesse Medival Diadem Coronet Hereditary Grand Duchess Cecilie of Hesse and by Rhine , Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark
Cecilie was the third child and daughter of Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark and Princess Alice of Battenberg.  Through her mother, she was a great-great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria.

On 2 February 1931 at Darmstadt, Cécile married Georg Donatus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine, above we see her wearing the altered emerald and diamond jewels in medivial style in 1905, from the workshop of Kreuter Hanau. The drawing of the emerald tiara or impressive coronet is still in the archive.
Hereditary Grand Duchess Cecilie of Hesse and by Rhine wore the emerald parure at the coronation of Georg V. of England, Great Britain and Ireland in London May 1937, with the emerald choker, the emerald stomacher, the emerald necklace, the emerald earrings with pendant.


On 16 November 1937, Georg Donatus, Cecilie, their two young sons and Georg's mother Grand Duchess Eleonore left Darmstadt for London, where they planned to attend the wedding of Prinz Ludwig von Hessen und bei Rhein  and Hon. Margaret 'Peg' Campbell Geddes. The aircraft in which they were travelling crashed in flames after hitting a factory chimney near Ostend, Belgium, killing all on board. Cecilie was eight months pregnant with her fourth child at the time of the crash, and the remains of the baby were found in the wreckage.
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Hesse Medival Tiara ||The medieval emerald suite with matching tiara, an impressive circlet of cabochon-cut stones set in clusters and rose diamonds in 1905 from Koch, Frankfurt made by Gebr Kreuter, Hanau.

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.

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