Royal Style: Quality jewellery, quality clothes and maybe a bit of Quality Street

[Maireas]

New thread for royal style and beauty fans.
Keep up the interesting, witty and wry observations!

To echo king Solomon's mind set. It could be cut into three and be divied up between India, Pakistan and Afghanistan 👼

Yep, chop it up and let them fight over it...it will be v expensive dust by the time they've finished.

Iran and the Taliban also claim ownership of it, and should the U.K. also have a piece? That's six pieces!

I think the Koh-i-Noor is just being temporarily removed from the crown, and it will be restored when the crown returns to The Tower of London

The Koh-i-Noor is staying in the crown it’s currently in (the one made for the Queen Mother when she was crowned as consort of George VI), it’s another crown that Camilla will use for the coronation. The one she has chosen belonged to Queen Mary. She had it specially made for George V’s coronation, and it would normally have been passed to her son’s wife to wear at his coronation, except Queen Mary was still alive and wanted to attend it herself! So they had to make a new crown for Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, and that was the one the Koh-i-Noor was mounted in, and where it remains to this day.

Indeed.

Thank you, @Serenster - I didn't know that 👌

As I recall, Queen Mary broke with tradition by attending the coronation of her son as until then it was not considered appropriate for an anointed monarch or consort to attend the coronation of another. But considering the circumstances of the abdication, Queen Mary wanted to be there to support her son. And it's understandable that she wanted to wear her own crown.

You're right. It was in the documentary I watched last week. Queen Mary broke with a lot of traditions and in doing so saved the British monarchy when others bit the dust

Queen Mary was such a fascinating character. I think Elizabeth learned a lot from her.

Mary certainly had a fascinating way of acquiring any knickknacks she set her eye on! I don't think the late Queen learned that from her 🤣

She was a magpie, wasn't she!
True, Elizabeth didn't inherit that trait!

Magpie is the polite way of putting it. If she hadn't been royalty she'd have been what MN likes to call a CF!!

The magpie habits were I think a result of her childhood. Her parents were quite shockingly profligate so her upbringing chaotic. If they hadn't been attached to royalty they'd have been up before the courts

In one of the biographies about Queen Mary, I read that people she was planning to visit would hide their more precious objects d'art in advance because if she admired anything especially strenuously, she expected to have it offered to her. I think in one case, she left with a chair she particularly liked.

Was that the Ben Pimlott one, @SenecaFallsRedux ? I also read that she was very affected by the fall of eagles in Europe, particularly the Romanovs, and she was always looking for "portable wealth" should they need to flee.

I'm not sure; I've read several. The one I still own is by Anne Edwards.

Hmmm...

Crikey just saw a pic of Kate at the BAFTAs... the 80s called and asked for their gloves back!!

You beat me to it @Gooseysgirl - the dress is fine the gloves are... awful.

Ok I'm gonna say it... can't help myself... WTF was she thinking!!! For the love of god lose the ridiculous gloves 👀

Jeeze! Kate that's terrible

It just looks so wrong

Sorry didn't mean to post the pic a second time... was trying to upload pic of William who doesn't look much better 👀

the dress would be lovely without the gloves.

They just look like an afterthought!

Mind you none of the other looks I've seen so far are from wowing me!