Buckingham Palace was visited in gala on Tuesday night to receive the President of the Republic of Korea, Yoon Suk Yeol, and the First Lady, Kim Keon Hee, who are on a state visit to the United Kingdom. For the occasion, Queen Camilla and the Princess of Wales dusted off two historic tiaras that they had not worn before, the Burma ruby ??tiara and the Strathmore Rose tiara.
Kate surprised by wearing the Strathmore Rose, a jewel that had not been seen since the 1930s, named after the family of the last British queen mother, Elisabeth Bowes Lyon, as the jewel was a gift from her father, the Earl of Strathmore. Made of platinum and floral motifs, Elizabeth II’s mother wore it on her forehead, in the style of the 1920s, but she later replaced this small tiara with more important jewels after her change of rank due to her resignation from the throne. of her brother-in-law.
The Princess of Wales had only worn three tiaras so far. On her wedding day she debuted the Cartier Halo Scroll tiara; She then regularly wore the lotus flower tiara, a minor piece also worn by Princess Margaret; and more recently the one that looks the most of her is the Cambridge Lover’s Knot tiara, iconic for being the one she wore the most on her Lady Di days.
If Prince William’s wife does not usually surprise in her choice of jewelry, the premiere of this new tiara and her impeccable white dress by Jenny Packham made the style duel with Queen Camilla non-existent again. On Tuesday night, the wife of Charles III premiered another historic tiara, the Burmese ruby ??tiara, so called because the rubies were a gift from the Burmese people to Elizabeth II at the time of her wedding.
One of the last times the previous monarch wore rubies was during a state dinner where she received Donald Trump in 2019. Then the joke arose that the queen wore them because in Burmese culture it is believed that rubies keep away diseases and illnesses in general.
The British royal family has a generous jewelry box that allows them to surprise, send supposedly surreptitious messages and highlight an appointment by the reappearance of a certain piece of jewelry. For many years, Kate Middleton, while she was Duchess of Cambridge, was the only one who shared jewelry with Queen Elizabeth II. At that time, Camila was content to wear the jewelry that had previously belonged to her queen mother.
Including the ruby ??one, the wife of Charles III has already debuted three historic tiaras worn by Queen Elizabeth II. The first she wore was George VI’s sapphire tiara during her first state dinner as queen, which was also the first state dinner in the United Kingdom since the start of the pandemic, on the occasion of the official visit of the president of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa. Last month she debuted the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland tiara, which was said to be Elizabeth II’s favorite to attend a ceremony at the Mansion House in the City of London.
