Good news today – the sapphire-coronet, which export was banned– it has been donated to the Victoria & Albert Museum in London after a year-long struggle to keep it in the UK. William Bollinger an Irish-American hedge fund tycoon sold the historic item for the VAM.
The coronet, which was first worn by Queen Victoria in the 1840s, is valued at £5m. Its last named owner was the 7th Earl of Harewood after it had been handed down through several of the monarch’s descendants.
Queen Victoria’s beloved diamond and sapphire coronet, designed by Prince Albert. More about the royal jewel>> and the story behind…..
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