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Hello everyone and welcome back to a special episode of the Royal Watcher podcast
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where Sam and I are coming with you with probably one of the most exciting discoveries
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that we've come across in this decade. Yes, how does it feel sad to be the author of this world exclusive
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I'm still really in shock at times, but it's been the most amazing experience
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those who are listening, I'm currently in Malaysia to attend the wedding of the son of the
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Sultan and Queen of Bahang. And I have come across this discovery that the Queen's striking
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diamond bando is actually Queen Mary's lost lozenge tiara. That was last worn by Princess Margaret
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Well, that is a turn-up for the books. I know. The whole kind of process to get here has been
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really crazy but it's really nice talking to you about the sam because we kind of had this idea
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a few months ago that it might be the same tiara and then we kind of just went cold on and didn't
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really pursue that so it nice to see it kind of come back and now it a big find it one of those things where we discussed so many things that when I did go through the WhatsApp I was just like
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oh yeah, we did talk about this. Then we spoke about three million other things. So okay
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I know. I'll go on so many random tangents that is hard to keep track sometimes. Well, see
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this random tangent worked out. I know. So I'll start actually at one of the ceremonies, two
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days ago. The bride wore this striking diamond bando tiara, which we've seen Queen Aziza
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wear, and she attached four diamond broches, so three beautiful diamond stars and this art
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deco brooch in front of it. But while I was at the ceremony, I mentioned to Queen Aziza
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that I'm feeling that actually might be Queen Mary's Bendo. And she was like, oh, that's an
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interesting theory. And I sent her pictures when I came back. And she didn't see them until the
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following afternoon when I was at a museum with her sister and her son, the crown prince, and a friend
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And it was crazy when I opened my phone and I had missed calls from her
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And the whole process, she's like, it's the same tiara. And so just like that epiphany moment who are like this is actually happening in it Like there are no differences at all between the tiaras So this was as you begin the picture of the bride wearing the tiara
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And then Queen Aziza sent me a picture of the tiara set up in that way as well
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Yeah. I mean, that's it. That's Queen Mary's lozinge tiara, isn't it
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I know. It's crazy kind of how we came across this and just like a little theory
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and there's still like times when I was like, okay, is it the same tiara
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Is it not? But I'm talking to Queen Aziza yesterday afternoon. She was like, come back and come see me at the palace
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I have to show you the tiara. So I'm on the entire way there
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I kept looking at the picture. I'm like, is it the same? And then I used to look at different elements and be like, yes, no
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There was a bit there. But by the time I arrived at the palace, I was like, no, I'm convinced
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It's the same piece. There's absolutely no difference. and I don't know about you, Sam, but I could not spot the pearls in the pictures worn by Queen Mary and Margaret
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But once I've seen this tiara with the pearls, I'm like, yeah, now I can see the pearls in those pictures
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Like, they were not that visible before. Yeah I didn realize they were pearls I thought they were diamond elements as well Yeah So I think that because they were like black and white pictures from 70 years ago So I can believe it too much And also Queen Mary I think we can move on to the next slide with Queen Mary
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She used to attach the pear-shaped pearls from the girls of Great Britain, Ireland, Tiara
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which I believe are the same ones now in the, her lover's not Tiara. And she used to attach them on top of this tiara
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And there's a couple of pearls that are on like a different angle
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than the rest. And those must have been the fittings where those pearls attached
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Yeah, you can see. It's, yeah. Interesting. So this tiara, I think our hypothesis is that it dates
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from probably the first half of the 1910s. And Queen Mary wore it a few times in the 30s
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with the pearls. And it is not the most like Queen Mary
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designed you think but she had a couple of these kind of smaller pieces for
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dinners and gallop events so it does work because I think some of the misconceptions one of the misconceptions about
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queen mary is that she only wore very grand jewels and she was very keen to
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stress her heritage but you know as we saw with um the bandotiarra that was worn by
