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We discuss all the magnificent Royal Jewels worn by Royal and Noble Debutantes at Le Bal des Débutantes at the Shangri La Hotel in Paris last night!
Link: https://royalwatcherblog.com/2025/11/30/le-bal-des-debutantes-2025/
You can find us on social media as ‘The Royal Watcher’ [@saadsalman719 on Twitter and @the_royal_watcher on Instagram], as well as on royalwatcherblog.com, while Sam (https://thebeaumonde.org/) is @thebeaumonde.inc on Instagram.
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Hello everyone and welcome back to
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another episode of Royal Water Podcast
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where Sam and I are going to talk to you
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about the royal jewels worn at Lebal
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Debbuton in Paris which really have
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given us some familiar jewels but also a
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few special surprises.
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Yeah, I don't know if I can get excited
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about this. And it's not cuz they're not
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beautiful jewels, but I have seen the
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same ones now about what two or three
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years on the trot.
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Yeah, I think this is the third year
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that we're seeing actually no 22 23.
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This is the fourth year actually.
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Oh, Yeah. Okay.
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So, fourth year we're seeing these same
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jewels taken out again for another spin.
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So I mean um so for those who don't know
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Lebal is a exclusive society event which
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has been run by um a lady called Oil
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Renoan and she basically has it to
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celebrate honorable young women from
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Europe, Asia, Africa and the US while
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raising funds for charity. They
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basically uh h work with a bunch of
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brands and hotels and designers but the
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jewelry for the past few years has been
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loaned by Vmuse jewelry who have
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acquired a bunch of um royal and noble
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jewels at auction and other places. So
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they do have a decent collection but the
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debutants wear the same jewels over and
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over again. So there's not much in the
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surprise factor. What is interesting,
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they usually tend to um link the
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debutants, especially the ones of royal
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heritage, with the jewel that may have
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belonged to their family or some branch
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of it. So, there's something uh
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interesting there, but usually it's the
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same jewels over and over again.
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Yeah.
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Yeah. And I think we can go on to the
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next slide where we see a glimpse of all
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the royal and noble debutants and all
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the interesting um other ones as well.
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So, she has
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Yeah. No, it it's I mean overall I think
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as far as the debutons go, this year is
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an interesting lot. I think last year
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was a bit me with regards to all the
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royal and noble personages. This year we
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have quite a few princesses like
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Princess Ulia of Orleans Borbon and
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Princess Isabella of Orlon. We have
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Princess Eugenia of Henzaland. And then
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we have Lady Arama Spencer Churchill. We
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have the granddaughter of Princess Maria
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Gabriella of Italy. We have a grand
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great granddaughter of the late countest
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of Paris. We have a couple of baronesses
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and a few American high society figures
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as well as as well as some uh fashion
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royalty you can say. Uh I believe the
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granddaughters of Wira Wang and Karolina
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Herrera. So a mix of people from all
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around. Yep. So, let's start off with
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Princess Ulia of Orleans Borbon who's um
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part of the Spanish branch of the
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Orleans royal family and they've been in
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Spain since one of them married uh one
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of the sisters of the second last
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Spanish kings of one of the king Alonso
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the 12th I believe and then it passed um
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they're still quite close to the main
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branch especially King Juan Carlos who
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is also um her godfather so they are
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still pretty well connected. Her
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cavalier was Albert Windsor who's the
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grandson of the Duke of Kent. And I
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think these two were uh popular fetted
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as like the couple of the ball a lot.
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And I mean um her jewels are I think one
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of the most interesting in the Vuse
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collection. The diamond tiara comes from
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Arch Duchess Marie Anne of Austria and
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it was part of the famous jewels of the
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Borban Parma family sale at Sabes in
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2018. And I think it is one of the most
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striking pieces and we haven't really
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seen this one worn before. So it's I
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think it's quite nice to see it again.
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And though I do am not a fan of the way
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it was placed at all.
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No, but it's good to see a bon wearing a
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the big bon flirtes.
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Yeah. No, I think overall it was the
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symbolism is nice. I just think a nice
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updo and I do hope maybe in some I a
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couple of days later usually they do
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release some better pictures and at some
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point they do have updos and stuff. So
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maybe there's some hope that she might
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have worn it for a photo shoot or
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something as well.
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Yeah. So that was the first jewel. And
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then the second one we move on to is
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Princess Isabella of Orlion who is
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really one of the veterans of this ball
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cuz I believe two of her sisters have
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had their um debutant there and I
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believe they've both times been walked
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down by their brother Prince Constantine
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as well. She wore another jewel with a
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Orlon heritage. This one comes from the
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Orleans Penza family. So this branch
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went to Portugal and then uh to Brazil.
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So the Brazilian branch, this was owned
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by them until the 60s. She passed it on
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to her daughter who was the former crown
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princess of Yugoslavia.
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And then she um sold it at auction in
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the 80s. It came up again for at
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Christies in 2018 and now it's owned by
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Vmuse. And this was worn by an Austrian
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arch duchess 2 years ago and now it's
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worn by Princess Isabella. And uh again
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the placement of this tiara I think does
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leave something to be desired. It's
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quite a pretty piece but worn so far
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back you can barely see it at all.
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Yeah. No I agree with you on that one.
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Yeah I know it's a beautiful piece
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overall and again the earlon symbolism
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they seem to be laying it quite on.
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Yeah. And then we move on to
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uh Gabrielle Jensen Debalcani who's the
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granddaughter of Princess Maria
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Gabriella of Seavoy who herself was the
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daughter of the last king and queen of
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Italy. She wore this striking Bellipac
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sapphire and diamond tiara which isn't
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officially part of the Vmuse collections
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but it's been popping around on
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Pinterest over the past couple years.
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And we did notice that it has come up
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for auction a few times over the past
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two decades. though it is a familiar
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tiara and it was this one's actually
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worn quite nicely with that. She's
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wearing uh the diamond earrings of the
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Duchess of Parma which again came from
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the bourbon Parma family sale from Sabes
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and is also loaned by Vmuse. Uh both
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quite interesting pieces and I think she
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does wear them quite well. But the most
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interesting piece I think we'll see in
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the next slide which is um actually not
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a V muse jewel and I think this is the
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first time we're seeing this is that she
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wore the one of the saf strands of the
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massive sapphire necklace of Queen Marie
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Jose of Italy which was divided up. One
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was given to her son the prince of
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Naples and the other one went to her
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daughter Princess Maria Gabriella. And
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this is that strand. And I think it's
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wonderful to see royal heirlooms worn
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again and especially an event like this
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where we don't necessarily see um
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personal jewels worn at all. So I love
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this and I think this is probably the
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highlight of all the jewels for me.
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Yes, definitely. Um it was a nice
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surprise and it's a beautiful sapphire
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set. So it's lovely to see it being worn
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at an occasion like this.
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Oh definitely. Yes. So the the sapphires
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in this are heirlooms of the house of
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Seavoi and um but the design was I
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believe created in the '60s by King
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Alberto and he had it made by Pitachi
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the Italian jeweler for Marie Jose at
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the time and I think it is really rare
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to see stones of this size especially
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worn in a shape like that and created.
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It does look very antique but the fact
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it was created only in 60s is quite
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surprising.
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Yeah. And then we move on to the next uh
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where we can see Lady Arman Spencer
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Churchill and she's wearing a jewel
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which is actually and has very little to
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do with the UK but this is another
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Orleans piece. This is the French
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necklace which belonged to the duchess
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of Aosta then it passed to the
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marshiness of Chumley and then to uh it
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was once worn by Clementine Churchill
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the Nobel prizes but it is something
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that is more associated with the u
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French royal family and a couple of the
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French princesses that have been at
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least
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piece though I'm not sure it it did look
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good but it wasn't I think cohesive to
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the look overall. No. And I wonder why
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she didn't wear any of her family
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jewels. I mean, they don't have much the
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Malbras, but they do have um you know,
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those small tiaras that are left over
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and it's got to be a Riviera knocking
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about.
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Yeah, they have some good pearls. And
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yeah, but I mean usually they do only
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wear VU's jewelry. I think the last one
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was really an exception rather than the
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rule. But still I think overall uh given
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the fact that she has been touted I
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think as one of the more um prominent
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debutants of this year the fact that she
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didn't necessarily do that much to play
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it up is a bit disappointing.
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Yeah.
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Yeah. And then I think lastly we'll go
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to the last side and we have um actually
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someone who's not royal at all. This is
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Raiken Saxs whose father has something
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in the American administration and she
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wore two actually quite important royal
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jewels. So the diamond tiara comes from
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Archus Marie Ann of Austria again and
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the diamond necklace comes from the Duke
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of Berry. So two very kind of important
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pieces of royal heritage which are both
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auctioned in the Bourbon Parma sale
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again. But this is I think overall this
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is a very princess look. So I think um
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probably the one of the better um pe
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dressed debutons for me was Rean um
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overall because of the way she basically
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her entire look really went so well
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together.
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Just curious at how they pick out the
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jewels for each debut.
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Yeah. No, it is very curious how it does
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work out.
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I'd love to know that their process.
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Yeah. Well, we've said it before. If
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they'd like to get in contact with us,
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we wouldn't mind.
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Yeah. And I think we can go to the last
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slide and then just discuss uh what did
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you think I think uh Sam of the all the
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debutants this year as compared to
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previous years and the jewels that they
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were. I mean, as I said at the beginning
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of the episode, it's quite difficult to
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get excited about jewels that you've
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seen repeated three or four years in a
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row. Um, I don't know why they're not uh
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rotated. I'm sure Vmuse has an extensive
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collection and if not contacts within
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the jewelry world, but you know, I'm
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it's nice to see um the family jewels of
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um Maria Jose's sapphires. Maybe that
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should be next year's incorporated into
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it somehow. Some of the girls should
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start coming in with some bits and bobs
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from their own jewelry boxes. That would
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be interesting. But yeah, overall I mean
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the dresses are nice.
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Yeah. No, I do agree with you. There's
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very little to get excited about and we
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do grasp onto the little things and I
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think overall I'd like to see if the
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incorporation family heirlooms is
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something that does continue in the
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future cuz that will give us something
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to be happy about
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to talk about. Yeah, definitely. So,
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thank you again for listening and we
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look forward to joining you again soon.
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