The Danish royals headed out this week on their annual summer tour, sailing aboard the Royal Yacht Dannebrog to visit several of Denmark’s islands, and Queen Mary sparkled in diamonds, pearls, and gold–and Catherine the Great’s turquoises!–for two stops along the way.
King Frederik X and Queen Mary of Denmark kicked off the first summer tour of his reign on Monday, sailing on the Royal Yacht Dannebrog to the island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea. Members of the Danish royal family have visited the islands and seaside towns of the nation during summer cruises for almost a century, dating back to the reign of Frederik’s great-grandfather, King Christian X. This summer, Frederik and Mary will make stops in Bornholm, Ærø, Assens, and Velje during the tour.
King Frederik looked spiffy in his naval uniform as the couple stepped off the Dannebrog in Rønne on Monday, and Queen Mary took inspiration from sailors’ garb as well, wearing trousers and a sleeveless Breton jacket with gold buttons, per UFO No More.
Mary accessorized with a pair of sparkling hoop earrings, plus gold bracelets on both wrists and rings on both hands.
On her left hand, Mary almost always wears her diamond and ruby engagement ring and a diamond eternity band. Here’s a slightly better look at the ring on her left hand. I believe it’s a gold ring with an open oval shape from her collection of Dulong jewelry.
Here’s a better look at the diamond earrings, which echo the lines of her striped jacket. You’ll also spot her necklace with the diamond-set charm in the shape of the letter F (for Frederik, of course) just peeking out from beneath her shirt.
On Tuesday, the royal couple arrived on the island of Ærø, one of the sunniest and warmest parts of Denmark. King Frederik wore a suit for the occasion, while Mary was dressed in a blouse and tan skirt with a Panama hat.
Mary opted for gold jewelry pieces set with diamonds and pearls for the daytime events on the island, including diamond and pearl drop earrings and a trio of gold necklaces, with charms shaped like the letters F and M (for Frederik and Mary, of course).
Mary wore a pair of gold Cartier Love bracelets on her left wrist and gold and pearl bracelets on her right.
You’ll spot the Cartier bangles in this atmospheric photo, which was shared by the Danish court. Mary added a garland of flowers to her hat during the day, a nice extra touch for this stroll through a meadow.
On each stop during the summer tour, the King and Queen host a reception aboard the Dannebrog at the end of the day’s engagements. The ensemble that Mary wore for Tuesday evening’s reception in Ærø will, I think, be particularly interesting to my fellow royal jewelry lovers, because she paired special heirloom earrings with her floral dress. Per family tradition, the turquoises set in these earrings once belonged to Catherine the Great. They arrived in Denmark with Queen Ingrid, who inherited them from her mother, Princess Margaret of Connaught–who was indeed a direct descendent of the Romanov empress through her mother, Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia.
Queen Margrethe gave Mary the family turquoises as a 50th birthday present in February 2022. For the reception on the Dannebrog on Tuesday, Mary paired the earrings from the suite with a turquoise ring, worn on her right hand.
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