The Queen’s Christmas Broadcast, 2012 [1] |
Christmas Broadcast 1957 [2] |
Left: Christmas Broadcast 1997 [4]; Right: Christmas Broadcast 2000 [5] |
Christmas Broadcast 1987 [7] |
Christmas Broadcast 1994 [9] |
Left: Christmas Broadcast 1988 [11]; Right: Christmas Broadcast 2006 [12] |
Left: Christmas Broadcast 1986 [14]; Right: Christmas Broadcast 2007 [15] |
Christmas Broadcast 1995 [18] |
Christmas Broadcast 1998 [20] |
Christmas Broadcast 2009 [22] |
Christmas Broadcast 2011 [24] |
Left: Christmas Broadcast 1996 [26]; Right: Christmas Broadcast 2012 [27] |
Left: Christmas Broadcast 1999 [29]; Right: Christmas Broadcast 2008 [30] |
10. See Field, pg. 153. While Field states that the brooch was purchased in 1929, the inventory of Marie Feodorovna’s jewels sold by Hennell notes that the piece was bought by Queen Mary on 3 Oct 1930. The list is available here on Ursula’s website; the brooch is item #42 and described as a “brooch w/oval cabochon sapphire surrounded by diamonds & pear-shaped pearl.”
11. Cropped still from a YouTube video of the Queen’s 1988 Christmas broadcast; source here.
12. Cropped still from a YouTube video of the Queen’s 2006 Christmas broadcast; source here.
13. See Field, pg. 60.
14. Cropped still from a YouTube video of the Queen’s 1986 Christmas broadcast; source here.
15. Cropped still from a YouTube video of the Queen’s 2007 Christmas broadcast; source here.
16. Field notes, “Since her marriage in 1947 the Queen has been given six brooches of varying design set with rubies and diamonds. She wore one of these, a modern gold free-form shape, set with seven carved rubies, for her 1986 Christmas television broadcast to the Commonwealth” (pg. 138). Grima Jewellery often publishes photos on its website of the Queen wearing this brooch at various engagements (for example, her historic state visit to Ireland in May 2011).
17. Andrew Grima died 26 Dec 2007; see his obituary on the Guardian website.
18. Cropped still from a YouTube video of the Queen’s 1995 Christmas broadcast; source here.
19. Field states, “In 1981 the Queen was left a late-Victorian diamond star brooch by Lady Jardine, which she has worn on many occasions. It has a collet diamond on a knife-wire between each of its eight points” (pg. 34).
20. Cropped still from a YouTube video of the Queen’s 1998 Christmas broadcast; source here.
21. In The Queen’s Diamonds, Hugh Roberts states, “Dr Williamson presented the diamond (uncut and weighing 54.5 metric carats) to Princess Elizabeth” (pg. 294). See also Field, pg. 102, and the Royal Collection website.
22. Cropped still from a YouTube video of the Queen’s 2009 Christmas broadcast; source here.
23. Like the Albert brooch, this brooch is an heirloom of the Crown. Field notes, “Another brooch that Queen Victoria left to the Crown was a large diamond-shaped design set with numerous diamonds, eight pearls and three pendant pearl drops. Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother wore this a great deal in the 1950s but it has not been seen for many years” (pg. 110). The Queen Mother was seen wearing the brooch in the years following the 1987 publication of Field’s book; see the photographs here at the Royal Jewels of the World Message Board.
24. Cropped still from a YouTube video of the Queen’s 2011 Christmas broadcast; source here.
25. See Roberts, pg. 268; Field, pg. 33; and the Royal Collection website.
26. Cropped still from a YouTube video of the Queen’s 1996 Christmas broadcast; source here.
27. Cropped still from a YouTube video of the Queen’s 2012 Christmas broadcast; source here.
28. See Roberts, pg. 118, and Field, pg. 133.
29. Cropped still from a YouTube video of the Queen’s 1999 Christmas broadcast; source here.
30. Cropped still from a YouTube video of the Queen’s 2008 Christmas broadcast; source here.
31. See Roberts, pg. 164; Field, pg. 76; and the Royal Collection website.
32. For even more photographs and information about the Queen’s Christmas broadcasts over the year, see this 2012 article on the Daily Mail website and this thread from the Alexander Palace Time Machine Discussion Forum.