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carolathhabsburg:

Hi-res tiaras.

Today: The Fife  diamond tiara. How gorgeous!

One of my favorites tiaras. ever.

theroyalfandom:

Crown Princess Victoria is normally my pick best dressed Royal at this event, but not this year. Although some may love textured sequins and bright green, I do not. Well… at least on an evening gown. The sequins are not in the same direction which creates texture that adds visual weight to the wearer. CP Victoria is a gorgeous woman and has a fabulous body, but this extra, visual “weight” is not flattering on her.

Another unflattering aspect of this gown is the fit. This gown skims over HRH’s torso and hips, meanwhile it is slightly bunching at her waist which causes her to look like she has a “rectangular” body shape instead of her natural “hourglass” figure. Now I know wht you guys are thinking: “Well she just had a baby last year!”. I know guys! And she looks fabulous and still her slim waist. So why not show it off?!

Before I sound like I’m harping on HRH, I want to say that I do like the cap sleeves and neckline. The sleeves highlight her toned arms, while the neckline showcases her décolleté and collarbones nicely.

Another good point of this dress is the back. No one rocks a semi-backless gown like Crown Princess Victoria! It shows of HRH’s toned muscles and brings the eye up to her ornate hair-do and emerald/diamond hair pin.

 The emerald necklace and hair pin are lovely!

Speaking of jewelry….Can I just say that I do not like this tiara at all?! It looks like the headlights of a Jeep. A sparkle-y, diamond encrusted Jeep. That being said, this setting of the Four Button Tiara is new to me. It has an extra row of diamonds added to the base, which gives it some oomphf.

Which finally brings us to the hair. I love Crown Princess Victoria’s ornate hair styles and I still do, but with this tiara, her hair needed some volume at the crown of her head to “back it up”.

So there is my little rant, what do you guys think?

Best Tiara Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony, Stockholm (2012)

Although all tiaras were pretty, Princess Madeleine wore it best tonight, wearing the Amethyst Tiara

carolathhabsburg:

Bagration tiara, now belongs to the duke and duchess of Westminster.

ufansius:

Cartier, 1937

thecrownprincessofdenmark:

The Danish Ruby Parure

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carolathhabsburg:

Pss Viggo of Denmark, rubi- diamonds tiara.

ilovethebritishroyals:

Tiara Spam:

1. The Girls of Great Britain and Ireland Tiara.

• A wedding present for Princess May of Teck (the future Queen Mary) from the ‘Girls of Great Britain and Ireland’, bought with money raised by a committee chaired by Lady Eve Greville. The committee raised over £5,000 and purchased this tiara from Garrard before donating the remainder of the funds to charity at the request of the princess.

• It could also be worn as a necklace. Queen Mary later replaced the pearl finials (they went to the Cambridge Lovers Knot tiara) with diamonds (taken from the dismantled Surrey Tiara) and removed the lozenge-pattern bandeau from the base so that it could be worn as a headband.

• Both tiara and bandeau were given by Queen Mary to Princess Elizabeth as wedding presents. In 1969 the bandeau was reunited with the tiara.

• Queen Elizabeth II paired up the bandeau and the tiara once again. She made the change in 1969, and it’s been the same ever since. Though she’d already been Queen for some time when she added it back in, it seems a fitting queenly makeover. A little extra height for the boost in position, maybe.

• This is Queen Elizabeth II’s favourite tiara, as it is light and one of the easiest to wear. She affectionately calls it ‘Granny’s tiara’.

ilovethebritishroyals:

Tiara Spam:

     4. The Cambridge Lovers Knot Tiara.

• This gem was commissioned from Garrard in 1913/1914 by Queen Mary. She modeled it off of a tiara owned by her grandmother, Princess Augusta of Hesse. It wasn’t a unique design to begin with; several others exist that are quite similar.

• Swinging pearls hang from 19 diamond arches capped with lovers knots. The piece was composed of existing jewels Queen Mary had in her collection: the dismantled Some Ladies of England Tiara, the original pearl uprights from the Girls of Great Britain & Ireland Tiara, and pearls off of a couple brooches belonging to Mary which were ultimately returned.

• Originally, the design included upright pearls on top of the arches, but Mary had them removed eventually.

• After Mary died in 1953, the tiara passed to Queen Elizabeth II. She wore it with some regularity in the early 1950s, but it eventually went back to storage as she narrowed down her favorite tiaras to the ones we see with regularity today.

• Queen Elizabeth gave the Cambridge Lover’s Knot tiara to Diana, Princess of Wales as a wedding present in 1981. Diana famously found the piece to be too heavy and headache-inducing, and often opted to borrow the lighter-weight Spencer tiara from her family instead. It was returned to the Queen after the divorce.