It is not uncommon for monarchies to hold priceless pieces of jewellery that enjoy special status: they don’t belong to any ...

Queen Elizabeth left behind a vast collection of jewels, tiaras, and brooches when she ... the royal collection began during the reign of Queen Victoria in the 1800s, when the former monarch ...

She linked together jewels from two reigns, wearing a rare tiara commissioned by Queen Elizabeth II with a necklace designed more than a century earlier by Prince Albert for Queen Victoria.

Margaret, who was herself a granddaughter of England’s Queen Victoria, carried the nickname ... Margaret’s daughter, Princess Ingrid, inherited the tiara following her mother’s death in ...