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Our tour of Monday’s Nobel tiaras wraps up with a surprise attendee: Princess Christina! The palace doesn’t mention her in its official press releases, and she’s recently retired from most public appearances, so it was very exciting to see her at the festivities.

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Christina wore a tiara that has been one of her favorites in recent years: the Diamond Six-Button Tiara. (Learn about its interesting history here!)

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She paired it with a suite of gold and pearl jewels with gemstone pendants. The color and cut of the stones mean that the pendants are nearly translucent, giving them an especially luminous effect. The set has been in her jewelry box for at least a decade.

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She also wore the sash and star of the Order of the Seraphim and her brother’s Royal Family Order.

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A large cocktail ring was visible on her right hand.

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Here’s a look at Christina’s entire ensemble. It’s good to see her looking so well!

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Our Nobel jewelry-palooza rolls on with a look at the sparkling jewels worn by Princess Sofia in Stockholm!

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Just like her mother-in-law, Princess Sofia chose to wear the same tiara that she wore for the Nobels last year: the pearl setting of her Diamond Palmette Tiara. (See last year’s appearance here!)

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The tiara is a reworked version of her wedding tiara, which was itself a remodeled emerald and diamond necklace from Queen Silvia’s collection. (Learn more about it here!)

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Sofia echoed the tiara’s upright pearls by wearing diamond and pearl drop earrings.

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And, dramatically, she chose to wear a large seed pearl and diamond choker necklace.

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Sofia’s necklace is similar to — but not the same as — one often worn a decade or so ago by Princess Madeleine. (Above, she’s wearing it for the Nobels in 2002.) You’ll note that Madeleine’s choker necklace has fewer rows of seed pearls and larger, more widely space diamond sections. The choker Madeleine wore has significant royal provenance: it belonged to Queen Victoria of Sweden. (It’s certainly possible that Sofia’s also has a royal pedigree — this style of necklace was very popular at the beginning of the twentieth century, and there were a lot of them in royal jewelry boxes.)

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Anyway, back to Sofia’s jewelry — she secured the sash of the Order of the Seraphim with this lovely diamond and pearl brooch.

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And here’s her Royal Family Order, made when she joined the family in 2015.

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Here’s a look at her entire ensemble for the evening.

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Our tour of the Nobel Prize celebration jewels of 2018 continues with a look at the sparkling gems worn by Crown Princess Victoria in Stockholm!

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Victoria chose a sentimental family sparkler, the Connaught Diamond Tiara, for the ceremony. We last saw her wear this tiara for the Nobels in 2015, when she paired it with pieces from the amethyst parure. (See it here!)

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The family often calls the piece “Princess Sibylla’s Tiara,” because it was a favorite tiara of Victoria’s grandmother, Princess Sibylla of Sweden. It originally belonged to her great-grandmother, the British-born Princess Margaret of Connaught. (More on its history here!)

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For this year’s Nobels, Victoria paired the tiara with diamond floral jewelry from the grand Braganza Parure. (More on the suite here!) Here’s a look at the earrings…

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… and the diamond floral brooch (more here!), which she used to secure the sash of the Order of the Seraphim.

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Victoria also wore a tangle of delicate bracelets on her left wrist and a pair of tennis-style bracelets on her right wrist.

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Along with the sash and star of the Order of the Seraphim, she wore her father’s Royal Family Order.

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Victoria used her jewels to accessorize this grand Nina Ricci gown, which she borrowed from her mother’s collection.

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Here’s a view of the dramatic back detail of the gown (and the small diamond brooch Victoria used to secure her sash). This is the dress’s second trip to the Nobels. Queen Silvia wore it for the ceremony and banquet back in 1995, pairing it with the same tiara (Queen Sofia’s Tiara) that she wore this year for the festivities.