Camilla’s Most Magnificent Necklaces

Happy birthday to the Duchess of Cornwall! Camilla turns 69 years young today, and to celebrate, we’re looking at some of the most amazing necklaces she’s worn so far during her tenure as a Windsor.

Diamonds and turquoises at the 2012 Sun Military Awards

Delicate amethysts for the 2006 Royal Variety Performance

The Diamond Serpent Necklace at a state dinner in Colombia in 2014

A gorgeous amethyst heart at the Royal Film Performance of Skyfall in 2012

A three-stranded pearl necklace with a vivid clasp (reportedly either an aquamarine or a blue topaz) at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2005

A five-stranded pearl necklace with a massive pink topaz and diamond clasp at Royal Ascot in 2009

An astonishingly elaborate ruby and diamond necklace at the Royal Film Performance of The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel in 2015

A massive ruby and diamond necklace (possibly a Saudi gift) at the Philadelphia Academy of Music in 2007

A modern necklace of diamonds and square emeralds (possibly a Saudi gift) at the Royal Variety Performance in 2010

A diamond necklace with a huge floral diamond and sapphire pendant at the Royal Variety Performance in 2013

An absolutely classic diamond and aquamarine necklace at the Classical Brit Awards in 2009

A glittering demi-parure of clustered diamonds at a gala dinner in Madrid in 2011

The magnificent full, five-stranded Greville Festoon Necklace in Uganda for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in 2007