Today marks the Anniversary of the death of Queen Victoria, who died on this day in 1901. While we have already covered her Top 20 Jewels last year, we still have quite a few to go, so today we are taking a look at Queen Victoria’s Hessian Diamond Jubilee Brooch.
A magnificent brooch in the shape of an open heart, with the number sixty in Slavonic characters, wrought in diamonds, surrounded by a diamond heart with a cabochon sapphire at the top and two sapphire pendants, was a Diamond Jubilee Gift to Queen Victoria from her Hessian grandchildren, the surviving children of her late daughter Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse: the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine, The Tsar and Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia, Grand Duke Serge and Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna, and Prince and Princess Louis of Battenberg, in 1897, and displayed at the Imperial Institute in London.
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The piece was bequeathed to Princess Christian, some of whose jewels ended up with the Queen Mother and are now with the Queen. The Brooch remained publicly unworn for more than a century until being worn by the Duchess of Cornwall on her 2007 visit to the United States. The Duchess has continued to wear Queen Victoria’s Hessian Diamond Jubilee Brooch and it was also displayed at Buckingham Palace last year.
Queen Camilla wore Queen Victoria’s Hesse Diamond Jubilee Brooch for the Funeral of Queen Elizabeth II at Westminster Abbey.
Queen Victoria's Hesse Diamond Jubilee Brooch: https://t.co/3PXakr7G4E pic.twitter.com/3UnapeWdNJ
— The Royal Watcher (@saadsalman719) January 21, 2020
Queen Victoria's Hesse Diamond Jubilee Brooch: https://t.co/3PXakr7G4E pic.twitter.com/3UnapeWdNJ
— The Royal Watcher (@saadsalman719) January 21, 2020
Too bad that another piece of gorgeous historic jewelry end up on “pruneface”
Beautiful,& I am sure proudly worn
The bitch doesn’t deserve anything. She killed Princess Diana in many ways.
Why the hell is she wearing it?
Hessian jewelry for ‘The Rottweiler”
Exceptional post however , I was wondering if you could write a litte more on this topic? I’d be very thankful if you could elaborate a little bit more. Kudos!