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Als die schönste Prinzessin ihrer Zeit stellte die Grossfürstin
Wladimir ihre Nichte Prinzessin Marie von Grossbritannien und Irland,
Tochter des Herzogs von Edinburgh und Herzog von Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha,
bei Cartier in Paris damals vor, später sollte sie das Diadem der
Tante abkaufen.
Beide Damen waren leidenschaftliche Schmuck und Juwelensammlerinnen, die
Königin von Rumänien hatte ihre besten Schmuckstücke bei
Ausbruch des 1.Weltkriegs in der Russischen National Bank deponiert und
all diese wunderbaren Stücke verloren, die sie von ihrer Mutter Marie
der Herzogin von Coburg zur Hochzeit und als Geschenk erhalten hat.
Ihr Mann stelte ihr nach dem Krieg eine enorme Summe zur Verfügung
und sie hatte mit der Zeit wieder eine aussergewöhnliche sehr exclusive
Juwelenkollektion, zu der auch dieses Diadem mit den grossen imperialen
Saphiren und Diamanten gehörte. Ursprünglich aus dem Besitz
der Grossfürstin Wladimir die es 1909 von Cartier in Form eines Kokoschniks
überarbeiten liess und den riesigen Saphir von 130 Karat als Mittelstück
anbringen liess, jedoch auch mit Saphiren bestückt die der Zarin
Alexandra Feodorovna gehörten.
Prinzessin Ileana erbte diese Schmuckstück von ihrer Mutter und
erwähnt es sehr genau in Ihren Memoiren.
Oben im Bild rechts, ein Gemälde das die Königin mit ihrem Saphirschmuck
zeigt, den sie auch anlässlich ihrer Krönung trug, zusammen
mit einem weiteren Prunkstück ihrer Sammlung einen der grössten
Saphire der Welt von 478 Karat an einer Art-deco Diamantkette von Cartier .
Marie Alexandra Victoria von Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha geb am 29. Oktober
1875 heiratete Ferdinand von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen den Kronprinzen
von Rumänien 1893. Ihre Eltern waren Alfred von Sachsen-Coburg und
Gotha, Sohn von Queen Victioria von England und Maria Alexandrowna Romanowa,
Tochter von Zar Alexander II. von Russland.
.....by Ileana, Princess of Romania CHAPTER 2/3
one very important thing which I was allowed to bring with me from
my old life, and which made the foundation of my new one. You can see
it in a photograph of my mother there on the table, but no picture can
give you any idea of the living glow and the rainbow fires in the sapphire
and diamond tiara she is wearing. "A tiara!" you say. "Now that is what
one expects of a princess!"
Yes, I can agree with you. This was truly a royal diadem.
Nicholas I of Russia had it made for his wife, the Princess Charlotte
of Prussia, when he became emperor in 1825. Through his granddaughter,
my mother's mother, it descended eventually to me (it goes to Grandduke
Vladimir, brother of her grandmother Grandduchess Marie, Duchess of Edinburgh
and Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha , also a son of the tsar, and later his wife
the famous Grand Duchess Vladimir, sold it to her mother on the fled).
My mother wore it at her coronation in 1922. She chose it also to wear
on state occasions during the visit she made to this country.
Queen Marie of Romania was extremely fond of jewellery. She was in fact
one of the main collectors among 20th century royalty. Her first collection
was badly damaged by the evolving of the First World War, she had deposit
her jewels for safe-keeping in the Russian National Bank, after the Revolution
the Bolsheviks never returned them.
Queen Marie did assemble a very fine collection of new jewels. Although Romania was economically crippled by the war, King Ferdinand did provide his wife with a sum with which to buy new jewels. Also Marie inherited some of the spectacular jewels (that had made Queen Victoria herself quite jealous!) from her mother when the Duchess of Coburg died in 1920. According to Hannah Pakula's book on Marie, the Romanian Queen also purchased jewels from her sister the Russian Grand Duchess Victoria and this sapphire and diamond kokoshnik from her aunt Grand Duchess Wladimir.
The paintinga above, showing the Queen with the sapphire jewelry she wore to her coronation, along with another showpiece from her collection, one of the world's largest sapphires at 478 carats on a Cartier art deco diamond necklace.
Princess Marie of Edinburgh, Duchess of Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha, later Queen Maria of Romania, was born on October 29, 1875 at Esastwell Park in Kent. The girl was batptized as Marie Alexandra Victoria, Princess of Great Britain and Ireland, but she was called Missy in the family. Missy had an overprotected infancy with no preparation for life. She seldom saw her father the Duke of Edinburgh, who was at service in the British Royal Navy, so she grew up under the severe vigilance of her mother, Marie, Duchess of Edinburgh and Duchess of Coburg who was the only daughter of Tsar Alexander II, so Missy, besides being Queen Victoria's granddaughter, was the Tsar's granddaughter too. Maria, who said she was the most beautiful queen in Europe.
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