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Crown Princess Victoria’s Best Nobel Prize Jewels

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Our Nobel Prize flashback celebration continues with ten of my favorite bejeweled Nobel appearances from Crown Princess Victoria!

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2011: The Diamond Six-Button Tiara and the Leuchtenberg Sapphires (with one of the brooches in her hair!)
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2014: The Baden Fringe Tiara with the Diamond Cross Pendant and the Bernadotte Ruby Brooch (plus the Swedish Diamond Lozenge Brooch in her hair!)
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2015: The Connaught Diamond Tiara and the Napoleonic Amethysts (with one of the brooches in her hair!)
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2018: The Connaught Diamond Tiara with the Diamond Floral Earrings and one of the Diamond Rose Brooches
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Queen Silvia’s Best Nobel Prize Jewels

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This year’s Nobel Prize festivities will look quite a bit different, thanks to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. While we won’t be seeing glittering royal jewels on display in Stockholm, the prizes will be awarded in a digital ceremony. And to remind us of the sparkle that will return to Sweden next December, I’ve got six dazzling posts on deck to help us reminisce about the best jewels worn for the celebrations over the past several decades. First up: ten of my favorite bejeweled Nobel appearances by Queen Silvia!

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2007: Queen Sofia’s Tiara with the Pear-Shaped Diamond Earrings, the Diamond Cross Pendant, and the Large Oval Diamond Brooch
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2013: Queen Sofia’s Tiara with the Diamond Floral Earrings, Diamond Necklace with Pendant, and one of the family’s Diamond Rose Brooches
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2015: Queen Sofia’s Tiara with the Karl Johan Earrings, Diamond Necklace with Pendant, and Bernadotte Ruby Brooch
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The Baden Ivy Leaf Brooch

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We’ve been discussing jewels worn in Europe’s parliaments all week here on TCJ, and today, I’ve got a brooch that pops up occasionally at Sweden’s parliamentary opening ceremony: the Baden Ivy Leaf Brooch.

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This delicate and beautiful brooch features a diamond ivy leaf studded with a central white pearl. Three more pearls radiate from the side of the leaf in its brooch setting. The leaf can also be removed from the brooch setting and worn separately. Note the bale at the top of the leaf, which allows it to be strung on a necklace and worn as a pendant.
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The brooch was first worn by Victoria of Baden, who was Queen of Sweden from 1907 until 1930. In the portrait above, taken around the time of her marriage to King Gustaf V in 1882, she wears the brooch pinned to the neckline of a light-colored gown. She’s also wearing an impressive five-stranded pearl necklace and a diamond star ornament in her hair.
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After Victoria’s death, the brooch was worn by her daughter-in-law, Queen Louise of Sweden. She wore it prominently during a state visit to the Netherlands in April 1955.
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Today, the brooch is worn by the current generation of the Swedish royal family. In September 2014, Queen Silvia of Sweden wore the brooch for the opening of the Riksdag, Sweden’s parliament. The brooch is a perfect ornament for the event, which has a black-and-white dress code. (That color scheme is a relic of the days when the Swedish royal women wore court dress for the occasion.) With her black-and-white outfits, Queen Silvia usually wears diamonds and pearls for the event.
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In June 2020, Crown Princess Victoria wore the brooch with an elegant cream-colored dress for a portrait taken as part of her 10th wedding anniversary celebrations. The brooch neatly linked the future Queen Victoria with her great-great-grandmother, Sweden’s previous Queen Victoria.
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Crown Princess Victoria has also innovated with the brooch. Here, she wears it in its pendant setting on a diamond necklace during the 2007 Nobel Prize banquet in Stockholm. She paired it with the family’s Six-Button Tiara and the grand Diamond Lozenge Brooch, as well as the diamond earrings from Queen Josefina’s Stomacher.
Elisabeth Toll, The Royal Court of Sweden

I expect we’ll see the Baden Ivy Leaf Brooch on Swedish royal ladies for generations to come. The piece has an important heirloom provenance, but it still looks modern and is very wearable. The size, design, versatility, and materials of the brooch make it the perfect bauble for a royal jewelry box.