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Magnificent Jewels from Queen Alexandra and Queen Mary are on display alongside Fabergé Objects and Paintings by Winterhalter and Tuxen in the ‘Edwardians: Age of Elegance’ Exhibition at the King’s Gallery at Buckingham Palace.
We had the pleasure to be invited to the press preview for the highly anticipated Exhibition at the King’s Gallery.
Link: https://royalwatcherblog.com/2025/04/11/edwardians-age-of-elegance/
ou 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 and welcome back to a new episode
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of the Royal Watcher podcast um to I'm
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Sod the founder of the Royal Watcher and
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I'm joined today by Sam hello
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so uh Sam you've been having quite an
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exciting uh week you were in Buckingham
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Palace to see the opening of the
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Edwardians Age of Elegance exhibition
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held by the Royal Collection
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yes it was uh quite a quite a delight to
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go and see on a on a cold but sunny
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morning on a Thursday in London i was
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very very honored that the Royal
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Collection invited us and yeah I had a
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wonderful wonderful time yes I think
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first off we should start by thanking
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the Royal Collection for inviting us to
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attend the press preview because that is
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just really special and I actually um
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haven't told you this but after this
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exhibition I was looking through my
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emails and turned out they'd send the
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invite a month ago which and it was in
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my spam folder oh which I hadn't seen so
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so thank God send a followup email or
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would not have Yeah always check your
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spam people yes that's a lesson for
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everyone so um I think we knew that
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there were going to be a couple of
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jewels in this exhibit but we were
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surprised um to see so many of kind of
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the most prominent jewels in the royal
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collection i mean yeah I you know I
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won't do it but I could publish our
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WhatsApp conversation i was just sort of
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just like sad they're showing everything
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yeah I know it was a quite a surprise
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and really exciting for my end as well
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to see how well they've done it yeah it
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was a a wonderfully curated uh
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collection uh a big thanks to Katherine
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Jones the curator of the exhibition she
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was actually very kind and took uh five
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minutes to have a chat with me at the
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end and she's done an absolutely
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wonderful job and she was a very very
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accommodating um in our in our chat
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yeah thank you so I think we can move on
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to the next slide and um give a bit of
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an overview about the exhibition so it
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explores the uh the two monarchs that
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reign during the Edwardian age King
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Edward the 7th and Queen Alexandra and
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King George the 5th and Queen Mary and
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from their family lives to their
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personal collecting and their glittering
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social circles and spectacular royal
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events that they held this exhibition
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really covers the material culture of
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that entire era which was really kind of
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the last uh bit before everything
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changed after the frozen wall so this
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was really the height of decadence and
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glamour and hasn't really been the same
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ever since
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yeah and you could definitely see it in
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the pieces that have been cured for this
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exhibition um I mean the picture we're
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looking at now is the collection of um
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Vintala portraits and um tu tuxen was it
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yes tuxen portraits i mean they're you
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know they're about 10 foot tall
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everyone's covered in jewels they're
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just absolutely magnificent there's a
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couple of Philip Daslo paintings um
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there's a John Singer Sergeant um which
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is Duchess of Connold uh for those who
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are watching on YouTube and on the other
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platforms you can see that and he was a
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very famous American painter and among
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kind of the objects it's pieces by Faber
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Frederick Leightton uh William Morris
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and so really the topmost kind of
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craftsman of the day who created um all
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these things for the royal couples
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and um I think we can move on to um an
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overview of the jewel set you saw
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yesterday which uh I think one of the
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highlights was Queen Alexandra's
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Kakashnik tiara which was a gift to her
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from Ladies of Society on her silver
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anniversary in 1888 and it's quite a
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special piece especially because it was
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just recently worn by Queen Camila um in
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December so not that long ago no no and
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it you know hasn't faded from public
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memory at all um and I you know as as we
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said in the beginning we knew there were
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going to be some jewels but we didn't
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realize there were going to be such
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important jewels so you can imagine my
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surprise um you know as you enter the
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exhibition you go through the objects
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initially and then you get to the um the
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gallery at the back turn left and that's
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when I almost fainted because that's
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where the the uh the caution was
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yeah and how is it in real life is it as
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massive as it seems in the pictures or
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is it different do you know strangely it
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is quite small but that might just be
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because of the way it's um displayed um
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however if you can see from the the
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pictures on the left it's it's um worn
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in a more open sort of sunray style um
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just I mean you know maybe maybe I like
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my jewels a little bit bigger but it was
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it was quite small but ne nevertheless
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imposing and you know the size of the
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diamonds and the magnificence of the
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quality in no way diminishes it so it
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you know it's still an absolutely
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spectacular jewel
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yes i think it is really one of the most
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magnificent pieces in the Ball
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collection yeah and I mean you know
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looking at the size of the stones one of
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those stones is the average size of an
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engagement ring so you can imagine you
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know how many stones there are in that
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tiara it's quite impressive
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definitely and then we can move on to
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another piece from Queen Alexandre um in
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the next slide which is the Dagmar
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necklace that she received as a wedding
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gift from the King of Denmark and this
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is quite a controversial piece in the
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sense that people aren't big fans of it
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it is very
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Victorian and it must be quite difficult
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to wear cuz it's was only worn a few
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times by the late Queen in the 50s and
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hasn't really been seen since
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yeah it's um it's a shame and I was
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actually I was speaking to Katherine
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Jones the curator about this piece you
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know um there's always this rumor that
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Queen Alexandra came with a big truso
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but actually uh the Danish royals were
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not as well off as their European
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counterparts so this jewel you know it
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was the best that her father could give
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her um and it is a complicated piece you
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would say but it's very you know there's
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the rumor that it's got a piece of the
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true cross in it or um isn't it a lock
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of hair from King Kenu who if anyone who
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studied history knows was a Viking king
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of England um so it is a very meaningful
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gift that was given to Alexandra from
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her her Danish relatives to for her to
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take with her into her new life uh
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within the British royal family
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yes it's um I think for the time being
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it must have been kind of quite special
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that they were able to muster up kind of
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enough funds because if as you both know
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the collection of Queen Alexander's
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mother was quite limited and if it
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hadn't been for the Swedish princesses
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marrying into the family shout out to
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our friend Jacob who'll be listening
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they would not have much of a jewelry
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fashion at all so this is really
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impressive for the fact that the Danish
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had nothing in I mean when the her
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sister married the Zara of Russia they
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famously didn't go to the wedding
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because they couldn't afford to dress
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themselves and have enough jewels to
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kind of outfit themselves for the
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Russian court you can imagine they were
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and financially they weren't as well off
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and didn't have the collection that you
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would expect for a royal family no so it
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I mean don't get me wrong it's still
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obviously covered in diamonds and pearls
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and intricate details but it's um
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clearly more of a sentimental piece as
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opposed to a
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um an expensive piece that you would
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send yes I think um it is one of those
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pieces that we might not see worn um
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ever again it is much more of a museum
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piece especially because I think the
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flags and the pendants it just gets too
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complicated probably and it'd be looking
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messy when it's been worn in real life
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yes and as we know uh necklaces seem to
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be out of fashion at the moment so yeah
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I think this is definitely going to be a
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museum piece going forward
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definitely and then we can move on to a
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more familiar piece which is Queen
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Alexandre's wedding necklace
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and that and she received as a wedding
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gift from the Prince of Wales when they
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got married and this is quite another
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very versatile piece the pendants come
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off i believe she also used the elements
8:36
as brooches individually and then this
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was a lifelong favorite of the Queen
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Mother and then was most recently worn
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by the Princess of Wales for a Dutch
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state banquet with the most unfortunate
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dress but luckily we don't need to focus
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on that we don't talk about that and
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also a missing drop pendant i've just
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noticed
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oh yeah no I think that is tucked behind
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i think it's tucked behind yeah yeah no
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that was another beautiful piece that
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was positioned right underneath the
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koshnik so that was a wonderful
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wonderful piece to to view
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oh definitely and um this is really I
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think one of the most like timeless it's
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a very Victorian piece this sort of
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having the stones thrown by diamonds
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with swags but it is really lovely
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classic and I hope that it is worn again
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because it is stunning and then uh from
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Queen Alexandra we can move on to Queen
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Mary's jewels in the next slide which
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would um kind of highlighted by the
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girls of Great Britain Ireland tiara
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that she received as a wedding gift from
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the girls of Great Britain Island
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obviously and that is a piece that has
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been worn uh by Queen uh Camila as well
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twice in recent years
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i was actually quite surprised to see
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that Queen Mary's jewels were were
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incorporated into this exhibition
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because obviously as you as it's named
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the Edwwardians you would you would have
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thought they would have just um focused
9:57
on Edward and Alexandra but actually you
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know um Queen Mary was an Edwardian or
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more of a Victorian actually but you
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know she she was the uh uh um she she
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was the Duchess of York and then she was
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the princess of Wales so it was you know
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she did live a lot of her life within
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the Edwwardian period so does make sense
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and a lot of her jewels were very
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Edwwardian and we'll see with the few
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pieces later on that not all of them
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were really cruded in the Edwwardian era
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but they the style was so prominent that
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they are included in this exhibit
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but this is one of those pieces that's
10:36
actually technically it's Victorian
10:38
because it's from 1893 yeah this is
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again this is probably my favorite tiara
10:43
ever it's the most like timeless royal
10:45
piece and it was just iconic when the
10:47
late queen wore it and I remember seeing
10:50
it at Buckingham Palace on the day she
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died so that is a memory that will stay
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with me forever well it's I suppose it's
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most synonymous just because it was on
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the bank notes it was on British
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banknotes and colonial bank notes um and
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then in the Commonwealth still on the
11:03
Canadian coins that I see yeah
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and this is one uh I'm not sure if you
11:09
had the time to see but um the shadows
11:12
of this actually creates girls linking
11:14
arms so that is a very kind of unique
11:17
fact about this jewel oh yeah oh there
11:20
you go you learn something new every day
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yeah and then we can move on to the next
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jewel of Queen Mary which is actually uh
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underneath it it's a collection of
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jewels in the next slide
11:34
and the highlight of that was the love
11:36
trophy choker which hasn't been worn uh
11:40
in over a century but it was something
11:43
that we already knew was going to be in
11:44
the exhibit and it's piece that people
11:46
have been wanting to reappear for quite
11:47
long so it's lovely to see it being
11:50
exhibited and hopefully it may be worn
11:52
at some point in the future though i
11:54
think that is unlikely i do I do
11:57
remember speaking to Katherine Jones and
11:59
she did say that it's an incredibly
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delicate piece um I wouldn't be
12:02
surprised you know I would assume that
12:04
was platinum it's very finely woven it's
12:08
probably extreme yeah extremely delicate
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i don't think it would be worn it would
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be lovely if it was worn um but I doubt
12:15
it i mean it was in the collection of
12:18
someone like Queen Maxima she'd have a
12:20
gown designed for it i mean I must say
12:22
it's so funny it's just um to look at
12:24
Queen Mary's neck it looks enormous on
12:27
her neck it's not that big in real life
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oh really yeah yeah i was slightly
12:33
underwhelmed seeing it um like I was I
12:36
expected it to be larger in size yeah
12:39
yeah just I don't know i would say it
12:41
was like a large bracelet size but I
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don't know maybe she had a very very
12:46
small neck that is actually one of the
12:49
things a bit of a side note that I've
12:52
noticed about the British jewels and
12:54
especially the necklaces worn by the
12:55
late queen they were so much smaller
12:58
than I'd expected like the size of them
13:00
the circumference it was tiny i mean she
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probably had a small neck they appear
13:05
massive in the photographs but in real
13:08
life not as big no interesting
13:11
and then another notable piece was the
13:14
diamond stomacher of Queen Mary and this
13:16
was a piece that was actually created in
13:18
1920 so a couple of years after the
13:20
Edwwardian era but it is such an
13:22
Edwwardian piece that they had to
13:24
include in exhibit yeah i mean I
13:27
mistakenly thought it was Queen
13:28
Victoria's Um but yeah no it's
13:31
definitely with the uh with the swag and
13:33
the um floral design it's very Edwardian
13:35
in its design but it's it's definitely a
13:39
Queen Mary's piece because I mean Queen
13:41
Elizabeth only wore it the once just
13:43
because it is quite imposing and
13:46
stomachers you know of went out of
13:48
fashion in the 1910s so
13:51
they were barely in fashion in the 1910s
13:53
either so Queen Mary was really just
13:55
holding on to
13:57
Yeah yeah it is quite a striking piece
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and I find it interesting that it's
14:02
exhibited in three separate pieces and
14:04
maybe I mean Queen Camila loves a mask
14:06
broo so I think this is one that she can
14:09
definitely it could definitely hold
14:11
together a garter sash put it that way
14:14
oh definitely yeah and we've already
14:15
seen her wear one of the grapple
14:17
stomachers so this is will be a nice
14:20
surprise and then uh we had two brooches
14:22
from Queen Mary um one that was given by
14:25
the woman of Hampshire that I thought
14:27
was a very kind of random choice because
14:29
Subu was given much more impressive
14:31
gifts a wedding gifts and this is rather
14:34
random to include in Yeah I didn't I
14:36
didn't even know what it was until I
14:37
read the uh the note at the bottom i was
14:39
like "Oh okay cool." Yeah it was worn
14:42
like once or twice every year by the
14:45
late queen and then it doesn't really
14:47
have any other significance and then we
14:50
saw
14:52
Yes it is lovely and then the scroll
14:55
Cambridge Emerald Brooch and that was
14:57
also I think a bit random as well cuz
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like I think it's cuz we're so used to
15:03
seeing you know pictures of Queen Mary
15:05
in the entire Delhi Derbar suite it's
15:08
like one random brooch was a bit like
15:10
can we not get the necklace can we not
15:12
get the other brooches the earrings you
15:13
know just and exactly but I do have a
15:17
feeling that the fact it's not included
15:19
and these jewels will be in this
15:20
exhibition until November means we might
15:22
get an appearance of the Cambridge
15:24
Emerald suite with the Vladimir which is
15:27
also not included at some point within
15:29
the next few months oh touchwood so
15:32
maybe that's some foreshadowing i mean
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Queen Camille had every opportunity
15:37
go read my oped on what should I wear in
15:40
Italy
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and but I mean maybe there's something
15:44
coming up which we're not too sure about
15:47
and there'll be some
15:51
exciting and then we can move on from
15:54
here to the most exciting jewel fall the
15:57
next slide I nearly fell over I nearly
15:59
collapsed when I saw this because the
16:01
thing is it's not next so so people if
16:04
you are attending this exhibition you
16:06
will go in first you will go into the
16:08
green room which is filled with the
16:10
objects a couple of costumes and a lot
16:12
of paintings and then naturally you're
16:15
supposed to go into the room at the back
16:16
where the Koshnik is and the girls of
16:18
Great Britain me being me I veered to
16:21
the left um went through one room which
16:24
was full of manuscripts then another bit
16:27
that was full of Egyptian pieces and
16:29
then you sort of peep your head around
16:31
the corner and there is one of the most
16:34
stunning tiaras that was ever created
16:38
for the British royal family just tucked
16:40
in the corner
16:42
wow it's in that little uh vestibule
16:45
between They did that they did the same
16:47
thing to me with the Vladimir when I
16:48
went to the uh royal uh the Russian
16:51
exhibition they did the Vladimir was
16:52
just like off to the left in the little
16:54
al cove so this must be a thing they
16:57
just you know they just like to spring
16:59
these amazing tiaras on me but they're
17:01
just like out of the way
17:04
i'm probably best for security reasons
17:06
probably yeah
17:08
but no it is the most impressive piece
17:11
and I mean I think it's really the big
17:14
gun of the Bersaw collection it's akin
17:16
to the Bansza and the Steuart Tiara
17:18
because just because of the massive size
17:20
of it yeah it it's just um you know the
17:22
fact that it's hardly ever been worn so
17:26
to see it in in you know in the flesh it
17:29
was just like oh I know you I've studied
17:32
you intensely
17:35
i know it's very impressive it was so
17:38
impressed and obvious and thank because
17:40
it was so out of the way it was just so
17:42
a lot easier to sort of get up up close
17:44
to it um and study the detailing in the
17:47
piece which is you know it's phenomenal
17:49
um you know it's composed of pave set
17:52
diamonds um lots of um I'm probably
17:55
going to pronounce this wrong but liars
17:56
which are like ancient Greek symbols and
17:59
they're all connected with festoons and
18:02
there's rose elements um then you don't
18:05
realize that it's actually a closed
18:08
coronet so it goes all the way around
18:10
and it's all interconnected so I had a
18:12
and because I'm 5 foot n and got on my
18:14
tiptoes was able to film the back of it
18:16
as well which is just it was amazing
18:20
oh definitely so um did it appear like
18:23
it could open because in when Queen
18:25
Camila wore at 20 years ago now it
18:28
looked much more open i mean well
18:33
because Queen Mary was so versatile with
18:35
her jewels uh you know the picture in
18:37
the center you can see that the central
18:39
element was actually originally supposed
18:41
to accommodate the Cullinan diamonds as
18:44
you can see there she's got Cullinan 3
18:46
and Cullinan 4 um and then the the piece
18:49
also incorporated her Cambridge emeralds
18:52
before she put them into the Vladimir
18:53
tiara so yeah you know she designed her
18:58
jewelry to be versatile um I wouldn't be
19:01
surprised if there were screw mechanisms
19:03
at the back where you could unscrew it
19:06
and wear it more open as we can see in
19:08
Queen Camila's on the on the
19:09
right um they were very ingenious uh
19:13
when they used to make tiaraas back in
19:14
the day you know it's a multi-purpose
19:16
piece
19:18
this is one that I really want Queen
19:20
Camila to wear with not if not the big
19:23
cullin at least one of the the main
19:25
square one i believe that's calling in
19:27
three because that that would be such an
19:30
impressive piece i mean it's already
19:32
impressive but that would just make it
19:33
even more over the top very much so but
19:36
yeah that was that was a definite
19:37
highlight i took a lot of videos of that
19:40
that piece you were saying something
19:43
that u the central element seemed older
19:46
than the rest of the frame it is um just
19:48
with my little jeweler's eye just
19:49
because I know that obviously this piece
19:52
was made for the 1911 Delhi Derbar and
19:55
by that time platinum had become uh more
19:58
mainstream in the jewelry industry and
20:00
if you look at the the other elements of
20:04
the tiara you can see that it's all pave
20:06
set um or that means when the stone is
20:09
set into the uh metal the central
20:12
element is it looks older because it's
20:15
like silver backed which is means like
20:18
the diamond's been set in silver and the
20:20
silver surrounds the diamond um because
20:23
they used to use silver before they used
20:24
platinum and that gives it more of a
20:26
white um color to the diamond so that
20:29
was just something I noticed um and it's
20:31
an older way of setting things so you
20:33
it's just to notice that and then to
20:36
compare it to the sort of more modern
20:38
platinum settings of the rest of the
20:41
tiara it's just something it's just
20:43
something I noticed that's what happens
20:45
when you've been in a trade for 20 years
20:46
you're like "That's off."
20:49
Because it doesn't detract from the
20:50
piece at all it's just something I
20:51
noticed
20:53
no it is very interesting that there
20:55
were who knows how many additional
20:57
elements Queen Mary had for this well
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this is my my best guess would be that
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was a brooch some old Victorian brooch
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she went "Oh I'm not using this put that
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in." Exactly so good for Queen Mary m
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and then uh I think we move on to the
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next
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slide which has um a look at some of the
21:18
other objects on display including this
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Fabraier cigarette case with a serpent
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that's quite kind of well known now
21:27
because it was given as a gift um from
21:30
Mrs keell to King Edward the 7th and Mrs
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keell was his mistress who's also I
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believe the great grandmother of Queen
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Camila yeah that old famous story it's
21:40
quite funny whenever whenever I go to
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exhibitions at Buckingham Palace they
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always have this on display i'm like "Oh
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there it is again."
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Yeah it's one of those pieces where they
21:50
love to bring it out but don't don't get
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me wrong I'm sounding very dismissive
21:54
it's an absolutely beautiful piece it's
21:55
made by Faber um you know it's got the
21:58
beautiful um royal blue geese enamel the
22:02
snake is made out of diamonds and it's
22:04
the snake is biting its own tail which
22:06
is symbol of everlasting love which is a
22:08
very beautiful piece but yeah I've seen
22:10
enough of it
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yeah there were quite a few stunning uh
22:16
pieces but I think that is the most
22:20
stand out and then we can go move on to
22:21
the next slide which has a look at some
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of the costumes and uh paintings on
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display most notably Queen Alexandra's
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coronation gown which was one of those
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pieces that I've actually really studied
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about because it was um very complicated
22:38
to create it it was the fabric was all
22:41
woven in India and then she corresponded
22:44
with the vice at the time Lady Keren and
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it was stitched by Worth in Paris so
22:50
trying to transport all the fabric uh
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the designs the fabric between London
22:56
New Delhi uh I believe it was Kolkata at
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the time Kolkata and Paris and so it was
23:03
quite complicated to get it to London in
23:05
time it was and they say it's very very
23:07
fragile i was reading today that the
23:08
conservators of this exhibition took
23:10
them a 100 hours to put it together so
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it must be incredibly delicate
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oh definitely but I must say uh if you
23:19
compare it to the I don't know if you've
23:21
ever seen that peacock dress that Lady
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Keren wore for the Delhi Derbar i think
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I have yeah one of the most so that was
23:29
kind of as a corresponding dress made at
23:32
the same time because the Delhi Derbar
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silver the coronation of Edward
23:35
Alexandra
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so what the vice rain made for herself
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was much more striking than this
23:40
coronation gown it's right they were
23:43
never going to be pictured next to each
23:44
other so it's fine oh yeah but I mean it
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looks much more impressive in the
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photographs or in the paintings maybe
23:51
the I was always I was always told it
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was you know gold a cloth of gold maybe
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it's faded i don't know or maybe I just
23:59
don't know what cloth of gold really
24:00
looks like but I would I it was more of
24:02
like a grayish silver
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yeah it is very striking but I mean I
24:09
can imagine Queen being loaded with gems
24:11
on the day that would have probably made
24:13
it much nicer sight yeah i mean I I mean
24:17
me and a couple of other people at the
24:18
exhibition we were all like "Oh look how
24:20
small her waist is." Oh
24:25
yes and um I'm not sure is that uh Queen
24:28
Alexandra's uh coronation um robe beside
24:31
it or was it the kings i wasn't paying
24:34
attention i was taking videos sorry
24:39
for people who go visit that's something
24:40
for you to find out yeah there you go
24:42
there you go that's homework for
24:43
everyone
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yes and then we move on to the next
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slide which has um a look at the other
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gallery and one of Queen Alexandra's
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most notable costumes which came from a
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costume ball that they attended in 1871
25:00
when she dressed as Mary Queen of Scots
25:04
and more kind of notable things behind
25:06
that are two paintings by Tuen one in
25:10
the corner on the left there you can see
25:12
is the famous kind of the royal family
25:15
at Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee and
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it's all her children in-laws and
25:20
grandchildren and their spouses and
25:22
everyone's basically related to everyone
25:24
and this was actually something that she
25:25
kind of made as a copycat after the
25:27
Danish royal family had commissioned a
25:29
similar portrait so she was a bit
25:31
jealous of that to make her own so it
25:33
was the grandmother of Europe versus the
25:35
father-in-law of Europe both had those
25:37
paintings made a bit of overlap in
25:40
between some of the same and then we
25:44
also see one of Queen Victoria's I
25:47
believe this was her diamond jubilee and
25:49
a garden party she had at Buckingham
25:51
Palace and it was interesting that in
25:53
those days the royals used to travel
25:55
through the garden in carriages and so
25:57
there's no handshaking that we see these
25:59
days
26:01
there's just waved and you have to know
26:04
that these were just like the creme of
26:05
the creme of British society you were
26:07
all titled people but they were all
26:09
acting like Yes yes um so um Sam now
26:14
this is a time for your review what did
26:16
you think of the exhibit overall
26:18
especially compared to other exhibitions
26:20
you've attended at the King's Gallery or
26:23
in London in the past few years it was
26:26
an absolutely wonderful exhibition i
26:27
mean whenever you go to the King's
26:28
Gallery you're getting you know the
26:30
creme de creme of curations of you know
26:32
attention to detail they always pick the
26:35
best pieces to to display to the public
26:38
um you know the the the standard of the
26:42
objects are obviously the highest that
26:44
you can get um and you know like I say
26:47
Katherine Jones who was the curator was
26:49
very kind took 5 minutes out to have a
26:51
chat quick chat with me um she said that
26:54
this this exhibition was actually
26:56
planned in in 2021 but due obviously to
26:59
COVID they had to keep delaying it
27:01
delaying it um so this has been years in
27:04
the making and you can tell a lot of
27:06
hard work um and expertise has gone into
27:10
this so it was absolutely fabulous um I
27:13
went in there with the expectation of
27:14
seeing like the Dagmar necklace and the
27:16
Kakoshnik i did not expect to see all
27:19
the other brilliant jewels that were on
27:21
display um and also the the portraiture
27:25
I also didn't expect to see um the and
27:29
it's one thing I did like was the
27:30
inclusion of the uh Philip Dazzlo
27:33
portrait of Princess Alice who was
27:35
Prince Philip's mother's cuz um
27:37
sometimes she's often overlooked um by
27:39
the royal collection but it was lovely
27:41
to see her included because she you know
27:42
she was an Edwardian um but it was
27:45
amazing and you know I encourage people
27:47
to go and see it um it's on till
27:49
November you've got no excuse um and
27:52
they were very if you visit the
27:54
collection once they give you they stamp
27:56
your ticket and you can visit it as many
27:58
times as you want with Exactly you know
28:00
I think the an adult ticket is £19 you
28:03
get that stamped um and you give uh I
28:05
think it's gift aid and then it's a
28:07
year-long um pass you can go in as many
28:10
times as you want so it's the perfect
28:13
run and at this point you can also go
28:15
for next year's as well exactly
28:19
and I think one of the things you said
28:21
about the paintings that makes it really
28:22
special is that these are the paintings
28:24
that hang in the state rooms Buckingham
28:26
Palace so those walls must be empty
28:29
right now and I think that is an
28:31
indication of the renovations that are
28:33
going on there so
28:35
you get a chance to see stuff that um
28:38
you'd never get to see because it would
28:39
be in the uh the state rooms at
28:41
Buckingham Palace so go and have a go
28:43
and have a look while you can definitely
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thank you so much for sharing
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