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Redesign It: Queen Elizabeth II’s Belgian Sapphire Tiara

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Time for another chance for you to play court jeweller, magpies! Today, our jewel in question is the sapphire tiara that Queen Elizabeth II acquired in the 1960s to coordinate with a demi-parure of Victorian sapphire jewels given to her by her father, King George VI. The tiara is a converted necklace; the piece once belonged to Princess Louise of Belgium, who married a Saxe-Coburg and Gotha prince.
If you had a chance to make changes to this tiara, what would you do?

Redesign It: The Edward VII Ruby Tiara

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It has a stellar royal provenance (a gift from a British king to a Swedish crown princess), a complicated family history, and a place in a current queen’s jewel collection, but the ruby tiara given by Edward VII to his niece, Margaret of Connaught, is rather divisive when it comes to aesthetics. If you had a chance to make changes to this tiara, what would you do? Put on your creative thinking caps and offer us some options!

Redesign It: The Henckel von Donnersmarck Tiara

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Since emerald is the birthstone designated for May babies, I thought it only fitting that we consider how we’d re-imagine one of the most valuable emerald tiaras ever to hit the auction block: the emerald and diamond tiara made around 1900 by Chaumet for the second wife of Guido Henckel von Donnersmarck, a German industrialist and aristocrat. If you had the chance to make changes to this rather interesting emerald sparkler, what would you do?