Queen Margrethe will hand over fabulous jewels when she steps down
- Denmarks’ royal household goes again to Gorm the Old – however the authentic crown is misplaced
- Royal jewelry can solely be handed from queen to queen, to maintain it within the household!
It’s ten thousand miles from Sydney to the Amalienborg Palace in Copenhagen.
Crown Princess Mary of Denmark has definitely come a good distance since she first met Crown Prince Frederik within the Slip Inn pub as town staged the 2000 Olympics.
And the dimensions of her transformation won’t ever be clearer than on Sunday. For, by the point night falls, the princess shall be Queen.
January 14 is when her 83-year-old mother-in-law Queen Margrethe steps down after 52 years on the throne, an abdication introduced in a dwell tv broadcast on New Year’s Eve to the shock of the Danish public.
Margrethe will changed by her eldest son Frederik, with Mary as Queen Consort.
As Crown Princess, Mary already has all of the fashions, stylists and equipment she may probably want.
But this weekend, the Australian-born ‘commoner’ shall be granted entry to one thing else as properly: a treasure chest of magnificent jewels to be worn by the queen. And solely the queen!
Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark and Crown Princess Mary of Denmark arrive at Amalienborg Palace for the standard new 12 months reception on January 1, 2024
Crown Princess Mary of Denmark and Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark attend a dinner hosted by Queen Beatrix of The Netherlands forward of her abdication in favour of Crown Prince Willem Alexander at Rijksmuseum on April 29, 2013
Denmark’s Queen Margrethe, Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary greet the diplomatic corps on the event of the New Year at Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen
The Crown Emerald Parure
The Danish Royal household is the one European royal household who can hint its lineage straight again to Gorm the Old and the primary kings of their nation.
Yet there hasn’t been a coronation for greater than 400 years and by the center of the 18th century, there have been no crown jewels.
That’s when Queen Sophie Magdalen determined to rectify the state of affairs, dictating in her will that her jewels should be handed down from queen to queen, bemoaning that:
‘In this Royal House, there are so few jewels and never any crown jewels in any respect.’
Queen Margrethe of Denmark poses within the emerald parure for her fortieth birthday
The Crown Emerald Necklace intimately
Exquisite craftsmanship shut up
The parure consists of matching diamond and emerald earrings
Queen Margrethe Of Denmark Attending A Reception At The Christiansborg Palace To Celebrate The Forthcoming Marriage Of Her Son
Sophie Magdalene of Brandenburg-Kulmbach, Queen of Denmark and Norway
The Crown Emerald Diadem
The brooch from the Crown Emerald Parure
Many of her authentic jewels had been then redesigned within the 1840s by the German goldsmith C.M. Weisshaupt & Sons for Queen Caroline Amalie.
Probably an important is the Crown Emerald Parure.
Created in 1840, it contains of a diadem, a necklace, a brooch which might be taken aside and worn in a number of smaller items, and a pair of earrings – all set with sensible diamonds and emeralds.
The largest emeralds got to Queen Sophie Magdalene by her husband King Christian VI in 1723 to have fun the delivery of their first youngster, who turned Frederick V.
It has incessantly been worn by Queen Margrethe for State events, most notably the New Year Reception.
The Crown Pearl and Ruby Parure
This 1842 parure is made up of a number of the oldest of the Danish jewels.
It consists of a big pearl necklace, pearl, ruby and diamond earrings and a big pearl, ruby and diamond brooch which might be taken aside and worn in numerous methods.
Queen Margrethe typically wore the brooch connected to the necklace. There are additionally two small locks that may be linked collectively.
The Crown Pearl and Ruby Parure set
The big pearl, ruby and diamond earrings from the set
Queen Charlotte Amalie sporting a phenomenal pearl necklace similar to the pearls within the Crown Pearl and Ruby Parure
The giant pearls within the necklace can probably be traced again to Christian IV’s daughter Leonora Christina Ulfeldt who’s sporting a big pearl necklace in a 1647 portrait.
It is assumed that when she was imprisoned for 22 years for supporting her husband, who was arrested for making an attempt to poison the royal household, the pearls had been handed to Queen Charlotte Amalie. She turned queen in 1670.
According to Peter Kristiansen in his e book Power, Splendour and Diamonds, the pearls could possibly be Norwegian river pearls as Danish queens of the 1600s had unique rights to pearl fishing in Norway.
The Rose-Cut Diamond Parure
Again made in 1840 for Queen Caroline Amalie, this suite consists of a rose-cut diamond belt, which might be remodeled into two necklaces, and a brooch which might be 4 smaller brooches.
This suite consists of a rose-cut diamond belt, which might be remodeled into two necklaces
A detailed-up of the rose-cut diamond brooch
The brooch might be remodeled into 4 smaller brooches.
Queen Caroline Amalie of Denmark
Queen Louise, mom of Queen Alexandra (spouse and Queen Consort of Edward VII) and Empress Maria Feodorvna wore the belt on a lot of events occasions.
The Brilliant Diamond Parure
This parure was created in 1840 by Weishaupt, for Queen Caroline to put on on the final Danish Coronation that 12 months.
Wedding of Prince Frederik of Denmark and Mary Donaldson sporting the Brilliant Diamond Parure
A detailed up of the diamond parure
Part of the sensible lower necklace. The parure additionally consists of diamond earrings and a spectacular floral corsage
Newly married Crown Prince Frederik & Crown Princess Mary Of Denmark seem on the balcony of Amalienborg Palace, with Queen Margrethe II and Prince Henrik by their aspect
The luxurious necklace is about with diamonds that had belonged to varied Danish queens: Sophie Magdalene, Juliane Marie and Caroline Mathilde, in addition to a princess: Charlotte Amalie.
According to the Royal Watcher weblog, Queen Louise was capable of take the necklace to London for the marriage of her grandson, the long run George V.
The parure additionally consists of diamond earrings and a spectacular floral corsage, the latter of which has yellow diamonds within the centre of a number of of the flowers.
It is made ‘en tremblant’ so the flowers transfer because the wearer walks.
