Royal Style: On with the chic, and the royal mystique!

[Maireas]

Evening Royal Style fans!
I hope we can have some fabulous winter fashion and tiara events!

@SenecaFallsRedux 1770s fancy dress , love it ! Having worn the awful 1970s fashions as a child I would definitely not want to revisit that decade!

I’m not sure if this is the right place for it and apologies if it’s not ok, but with talk of the QM etc, I think there is rumoured to be a “prequel” to the Netflix series The Crown which would be very interesting I think. Does anyone on here watch The Crown, are the jewels, tiaras etc faithfully reproduced?

I love that 1770s fancy dress story @SenecaFallsRedux. 😀

I remember @QueenoftheAndals. I think she started the threads!

The Cartier Bracelet tiara is beautiful! So sleek and modern, by tiara standards at least. 😄

QEQM had some eyebrows in her youth !
I love the 1920's style and loved her wedding dress, her veil and her flowers.
I must have been born in the wrong era

It is, so wearable too. A shame we have only seen it as bracelets since the Duchess of York became the Queen. Though we have probably seen more of it than any other tiara as HMQ often wore it as bracelets.

I suspect that is partly why we didn't see it as a tiara, it isn't very queenly, more suitable for a young Princess but the Queen liked the bracelets and wore them often. Perhaps we will see it on Charlotte in future.

I think Charles should wear this to his coronation, and if William, Harry and Edward can wear similar in coordinating colours then even better. It would be a coronation to remember!

@LadyEloise1 i think the QM probably was a lot more attractive in real life, she had very beautiful eyes that had a darker ring round the iris called a limbic ring (think Liz Taylor had similar ) it’s not always apparent in the photos of her but you can see it on this one of her as a very young girl
@KillingMeDeftly
Lol 😂 at the suits for coronation!

She actually looks a bit like a young Liz Taylor in that photo.

QEQM is very pretty in that photo @667TheNeighbourOfTheBeast, but even at a young age she had strong eyebrows.
Ahead of her time.
They are so fashionable today.

I love this, especially the bit about Kipling calling her a slug! She certainly sounds like she made an impression.

What brilliant quotations about Mrs Greville! She had an eye for the gems, though!

"From Her Majesty's Jewel Vault: The Greville Bequest, Part 2" queensjewelvault.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-greville-bequest-part-2.html?m=1

Wow, scroll down

Wowsers.... those jewels!
The Greville Festoon Necklace 😍

Has anyone got dibs on the Greville Festoon or the Peardrop earrings?

If not can I have them please?

Thank you very much for posting this, I hadn’t heard of Mrs Greville before this thread, it’s very interesting. This may sound like a silly question to you more knowledgeable ladies, but would the earrings have been pierced or screw back ? I’m not sure why I need to know this, just nosey !

That's a good question about the earrings - I would assume pierced, as that's more secure, but someone more knowledgeable than me may know otherwise!

I'm afraid I beat you to it on the Greville Festoon necklace which I nabbed just last week!

at that Wikipedia page!!

Lovely link between Mrs Greville and Camilla too...

Damnit! You lucky thing, perhaps if I get the Peardrop earrings we could come to an agreement regarding occasional loans 🤔

An sharing arrangement sounds reasonable to me @JesusMaryAndJosephAndTheWeeDon. The peardrops are pretty spectacular too, so happy to borrow those, and in return let you have a go with the Greville Festoon. It looks heavy enough to induce headaches so perhaps it's just as well I share it.

@JesusMaryAndJosephAndTheWeeDon - Greville Peardrop earrings ✔️

It did occur to me that we'll not see some of the tiaras again because they're damned uncomfortable/heavy.

It's not a pair of shoes you can slip off under the table 😂

Thanks for the new thread @Maireas !
I’ve enjoyed catching up, and love the QM’s bracelet tiara. I think she was actually very pretty in her youth, in a sweet and wholesome way, and yes to the beautiful eyes with a limbic ring. My dds have these, especially my youngest, as do both dh and I. I think whoever said figure and look wise she was just in the wrong decade was absolutely right. I often think that about me too, I think. I was a teenager in the 90’s when it was all grunge and so on, and it really wasn’t me. At that age I was very slim and just looked rubbish in that type of stuff.
Anyway, this is my Grandmother, probably late 20’s early 1930’s, and I thought of her when looking at the Qm in a similar era so thought I’d just share with you all🙂

Stylish lady! I really like a lot of the 20s styles, I know not everyone does, and I actually like QEQM wedding dress!
I was a teenager in the 70s and absolutely hated the clothes!