Princess Josephine’s Turquoise Bracelet

Last weekend, Princess Josephine of Denmark wore a special royal heirloom for the first time at her Confirmation at Fredensborg Palace; a Turquoise and Diamond Bracelet which had been a christening present from her grandmother, Queen Margrethe II of Denmark.

When Princess Ingrid of Sweden married Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark in 1935, she received this Bracelet set with Turquoises and Diamonds in gold as a wedding gift from her great-aunt, Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, who was a daughter of Queen Victoria.

The Turquoise and Diamond Bracelet joined a series of Turquoise Jewels which Queen Ingrid had inherited from her late mother, Crown Princess Margareta of Sweden, which included the Turquoise Daisy Bandeau, but like most of those jewels, it doesn’t seem to have been publicly worn by Queen Ingrid.

By the 1960s, Queen Ingrid gave pieces of the Turquoise Parure to her elder daughter, Princess Margrethe, which supposedly included the Turquoise and Diamond Bracelet, which may have been worn with the Turquoise Daisy Bandeau for a Gala Dinner in 1964, but does not seem to have been worn too often.

In 2011, Queen Margrethe gave the Turquoise and Diamond Bracelet given by Princess Louise to her mother as a christening gift to her newborn granddaughter, Princess Josephine.

Queen Margrethe had given Queen Alexandrine’s Pearl Brooch to her eldest granddaughter, Princess Isabella, as a christening present, and that had been often worn before Queen Margrethe gifted her the Turquoise Daisy Bandeau on her 18th Birthday last year.

However, the Confirmation at Fredensborg Palace was the first occasion on which Princess Josephine has worn her christening gift, the Turquoise and Diamond Bracelet, which will no doubt be worn for years to come!