![]() Here is the history of this very significant, set of jewels. The George VI Victorian Suiteįor the South African State Banquet, the Queen Consort wore an exceptional parure of diamonds and sapphires, which has as its sobriquet, the George VI Victorian Suite, of which the tiara is called The Belgian Sapphire. Subsequently, we have become used to seeing her wearing the fabulous Greville Diamond Tiara, officially the largest diadem in the collection, (more of which below) but it was a more sentimental parure that she chose for the King and Queen’s first home State Banquet in November 2022. Far from it! In one of her first state visits, to Uganda in 2007, the then Duchess of Cornwall wore the Greville diamond parure, possibly the most ornate and intricate of all. At the time of their marriage, several ‘royal experts’ envisaged that she would wear understated pieces. ![]() Since her wedding to Prince Charles in 2005, the Queen Consort has worn a plethora of prominent pieces many of which once belonged to the Queen Mother, whilst many others are either her own family pieces or presents from her husband. ![]() When the Duchess of Cornwall became Queen Consort on 9th September 2022, following the death of Her late Majesty, she inherited the largest collection of jewelry in the world-often surmised to be worth in the region of $120 million (£100 million). The Diamonds of Camilla, the Queen Consort of the United Kingdom By Josie Goodbody | April 10, 2023 ![]()
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