The Daily Diadem: Queen Marie Amelie’s Sapphire Parure Tiara

The tiara from the sapphire and diamond parure that once belonged to Queen Marie Amélie of France is displayed at the Louvre in Paris, June 2016; the tiara, which dates to the early nineteenth-century, was later owned by Marie Amélie’s descendants, the Counts and Countesses of Paris, until it was purchased by the Louvre in 1985