On New Year’s Day, members of the Danish royal family gather in Copenhagen for the first levee of the year, and inevitably, someone emails me this question: what’s the necklace that the royals are wearing with the elephant pendant? The answer is this: it’s a collar, not a necklace, and it forms part of the insignia of one of the grandest orders of chivalry in the world, the Order of the Elephant.
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