A lovely surprise today! Most people predicted she would wear her mother’s York Diamond Tiara, but Princess Eugenie wore the stunning Greville Emerald Kokoshnik Tiara at her Wedding to Jack Brooksbank at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle and we will be taking a look at this most unexpected tiara choice, seen after more than 80 years and worn for the first time by a member of the Royal Family!

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This emerald and diamond tiara was created in 1921 for Margaret Grenville by Boucheron. When Mrs Grenville died in 1942 she left her huge jewelry collection to queen Elizabeth. Wife of king George VI. Queen Elizabeth never wore that tiara in public. When she died in 2002, everybody assumed it had been inherited by the queen. It had indeed. Kept in safes during almost a century that fantastic Boucheron tiara is back on princess's eugenie's today in Windsor on her wedding day. #jewelry #boucheron ##royalwedding #emeralds#queenmum #greville #windsor

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Mrs Greville wore the Greville Emerald Kokoshnik Tiara at a concert at the Austrian Legation in London in 1937! (cr… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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Made for the society hostess the Hon. Mrs Ronald Greville (of the Greville Tiara fame) by Boucheron in 1919, the Tiara was modeled on the fashionable ‘kokoshnik’ style popularized in the Russian Imperial Court. While there are various accounts of her wearing her magnificent emeralds, Mrs Greville was pictured in the piece just once, at a concert at the Austrian Legation in London in 1937 (full credit for this find goes to my friend Beth of RJWMB). Made of brilliant and rose cut diamonds pavé set in platinum, with six emeralds on either side, the center emerald is 93.70 carats. The Tiara was relatively unknown until Vincent Meylan discovered the image in the Boucheron archives.

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After Mrs Greville’s death in 1942, she bequeathed her massive jewellery collection to the Queen Mother, but unlike the favourite Greville Tiara, this one was never publicly worn until today, when Princess Eugenie stepped out of the 1977 Rolls Royce Phantom VI with the Greville Emerald Kokoshnik Tiara glittering atop her Peter Pilotto and Christopher De Vo gown. She finished her look with emerald and diamond earrings, which were a gift from the groom, and perfectly complemented the tiara. Click HERE to take a look at the Wedding!

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