Royal Style: Never knowingly under-jewelled, let's be like Daisy and shine!

[Maireas]

New thread, thanks for the brilliant title suggestion, as ever!

Presents self… 👸🏽💁🏻✨

I am definitely not royal, but our tiara is a proper tiara from the 1910s made of platinum and diamonds, I promise! I suppose the weight depends on how solid the design is, but this one isn’t just a thin diadem type (it’s probably 3cm or so high at the front) and I forgot I was wearing it.
You’re right about the fixing in though - it wasn’t sewn in but the number of hairpins had to be seen to be believed! Hence my my DM making me choose the hairdresser With Tiara Experience
I’m sure the actual crowns are really heavy - though presumably no one’s trying to dance in those…

Is it the Spencer tiara??

Sounds beautiful @Tiarawearer , would you be able to show us a little glimpse? I do love a tiara. I had one for my wedding, not a heirloom 😆but very pretty crystal, a decent size and weight and I agree it was very comfortable, held in with hundreds of pins and it was as firmly in place when I had to take it off as it was in the morning.

I love Max’s pearls and outfit, I’m a sucker for green though.

@Tiarawearer How lovely, and what a wonderful heirloom to pass down the family line. I bet you looked beautiful wearing it.

@Tiarawearer have you worn it much? Do you ever just feel like getting a bit glam and watching Strictly with a tiara on? I think I would!

Now I’m def glad I name changed as my sister is also on MN and she wore the same tiara - she’ll probably pop up now and say that it weighed a ton! Looking at the photo I’d actually say the front is more like 4 or even 5cm high - can’t check as you won’t be surprised to learn it lives in the bank.
And yes it is a lovely thing to have, not that I have ever had the chance to wear it again (so far…). My DM memorably once wore it round Sainsburys under a headscarf on her way from the hairdressers home to change for a party - this was in the 1980s when possibly tiara-type parties happened more and headscarfs round Sainsburys were a Thing.

It’s tempting but if I did that I’d have to get the hairdresser WTE around to watch it with me…

That's a beautiful tiara (and veil).
I like the story of your Mum wearing it round Sainsburys!

Ah, that’s gorgeous! 😍I’d be looking for events to wear it to as often as I could- Sainsbury’s included!
Lovely veil too 😊

@Tiarawearer that is a beautiful tiara. I hope it's worn again soon.

How is it supported when in a bank vault it looks so fragile?

It'll be in it's case, surely?

Yes but I've read that the royals tiaras somehow still need repairs because of fragility I suppose. You've a lot of gem weight on fragile wires.

If you look at QEII's wedding photos you can see very clearly where her tiara snapped in half on the wedding morning and had to have emergency repairs! By the time Pss Beatrice wore it for her wedding, it had been properly repaired.

Really. Filigree disaster then

Thanks all - it isn’t particularly fragile I don’t think, though the wires/mounts are quite fine. I suppose that’s why it doesn’t weigh too much.
Weirdly it doesn’t have a case made for it - it actually lives in a cash box type metal box (fairly large), sitting in a sort of scrunched up tissue ball. Not very glamorous - but then they don’t look nearly as glam off as there is the velvet band thing that is how it’s fixed to your hair. I’m now desperate to get it out and have a play with it but it is quite a hassle extracting it from the bank!

I think we can agree that the first photo here pretty much encapsulates why we all love Max. I thought she was wearing a turban but the profile view puts me in mind of a tea cosy I'm afraid. Still, I like the red/camel colour combo.

And then we have adorable little Francois, looking very much like his brother.

My Nana and aunt wore hats like that in the 70s.

Maybe she's wearing her favourite tiara under the hat

Useful for a bad hair day. I've a couple of pull ons for really cold weather. One rabbit fur I think

Max can pull it off, though!
Francois 😊❤️

Max is also the only royal who can pull off an Iris van Herpern dress. Here she is with the designer herself and La Macron at the opening of the IVH exhibition.

Something about that photo makes it look as if all three of their heads have been photoshopped on to different bodies!

I think Catherine could look amazing in Iris van Herpern dress.

Judiciously chosen, maybe. Having said that, this one is not dissimilar to the day dress she wore to the Crown Prince of Jordan’s wedding…