Tourmaline Tuesday for the Queen

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Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom was a busy bee on Tuesday, hosting a foreign president for lunch and holding diplomatic audiences at Buckingham Palace — and she wore one of her most modern, colorful brooches for the day.

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The Queen welcomed President Frank-Walter Steinmeier of Germany and his partner, Elke Budenbender, for a luncheon at Buckingham Palace in the morning.

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The Duke of Cambridge accompanied his grandmother for the lunch. Appropriately, William visited Germany with Kate recently, so he surely had much to discuss with the presidential couple.

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Although she was hosting the Germans, the Queen wore one of her modern Canadian brooches for the day: the Saskatchewan Tourmaline Brooch. Read all about the brooch over here!

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We got a good, close-up look at the pearl, diamond, and tourmaline brooch during Tuesday’s events.

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The Queen wore the same brooch later for audiences at the palace, including a meeting with the new ambassador from Jordan. (I just thought you’d all love seeing the fabulous outfit that his wife wore to meet the Queen!)