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A diamond and pearl bandeau, made by Cartier and once owned by heiress Doris Duke, is displayed in a museum exhibition in Madrid, October 2012; see the tiara on a model over here!
Belgian State Visit Tiaras in London (1963)
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Our flashback to royal-royal state visits from decades past continues today with a closer look at the jewels worn during the Belgian state visit to London in May 1963.
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| The Queen leads a royal contingent at the wedding of Princess Alexandra, April 1963; with her are the Duke of Edinburgh and the Prince of Wales, followed by the Queen Mother, King Olav V of Norway, Queen Friederike of the Hellenes, Queen Louise of Sweden, Queen Ingrid of Denmark, and Princess Anne-Marie of Denmark (Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) |
In the spring of 1963, Queen Elizabeth II was 37 years old and preparing to celebrate the 10th anniversary of her coronation. Eleven years after becoming monarch, she was praised in the press for commanding near universal respect in her role. She had recently returned from an extensive royal tour of New Zealand and Australia. She was also part of a busy and growing family. Married for 15 years to the Duke of Edinburgh, she had three children: Prince Charles (14), Princess Anne (12), and Prince Andrew (3). The following year, the family welcomed their sixth and final member, Prince Edward. The extended Windsors were also busy with family events. Most recently, in April 1963, Princess Alexandra had married Angus Ogilvy in a glittering ceremony at Westminster Abbey.
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| Queen Fabiola of the Belgians, 1963 (AFP via Getty Images) |
Across the channel in Brussels, King Baudouin of the Belgians was nearing the 12th anniversary of his accession to the throne, which happened following the abdication of his father, King Leopold III. Baudouin inherited a shaky throne, and his own reign was sometimes marked by turmoil, including his handling of the independence of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the early 1960s. The 32-year-old king had married a Spanish aristocrat, Fabiola Mora y Aragon, in a lavish wedding in December 1960. Though the couple desperately wanted children, they were not successful in producing an heir. Fabiola, who turned 35 a few weeks after this state visit, had suffered miscarriages in 1961 and 1962; a third happened in the autumn of 1963. But although they were never able to start the family they so wished for, their marriage was reportedly particularly strong, with the press praising the way they worked together as a team.
Expectations for the Belgian state visit to Britain were high in May 1963. The last Belgian monarch to make a state visit to London had been King Baudouin’s father, King Leopold III, in 1937. Leopold had significant family ties to the British royals; he was the great-grandson of King Leopold I, who was the uncle of both Prince Albert and Queen Victoria, and the widower of Princess Charlotte of Wales. But Leopold III’s attempted neutrality at the outbreak of World War II had caused strains both at home and abroad. One Scottish newspaper reported that many Belgians looked at the 1963 state visit as “an opportunity to melt the coolness between the two royal houses” that lingered after the end of the war.
King Baudouin and Queen Fabiola flew from Belgium to London to begin the visit, touching down at Gatwick Airport on Tuesday, May 14. They were officially welcomed by Princess Margaret and the Earl of Snowdon, who boarded the plane to escort the royal couple to British soil. The Belfast Telegraph reported that, as Queen Fabiola stepped off the plane, her “smile and warmth immediately communicated itself” to those waiting to greet her. King Baudouin inspected Royal Air Force servicemen on the tarmac before the royal party proceeded to the train that would take them into London.
When the train pulled in to platform two at Victoria Station, several members of the British royal family and the British government were waiting to greet the Belgian royals. Queen Elizabeth II greeted King Baudouin with a handshake, and he reciprocated with a kiss on the cheek.
Both the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh also greeted Queen Fabiola, who wore, according to press reports, “a very light stone-colored coat and a brown hat.” You’ll also note Prime Minister Harold Macmillan standing off to the side.
Along with Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon, who had traveled with the Belgian royals on the train, Baudouin and Fabiola were also met at the station by the Princess Royal and the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester.
A carriage procession brought the royal party from Victoria Station to Buckingham Palace, with waving crowds lining the streets as they passed by Trafalgar Square.
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Baudouin and Fabiola stayed at Buckingham Palace during this four-day state visit. (Appropriately, they were assigned the Belgian Suite, which was named for Baudouin’s great-great-grandfather, King Leopold I.) On arriving at the palace, both royal couples posed for an official photograph after stepping out of their carriages. The carriage ride was a rainy one — can you tell by looking at Baudouin’s uniform?
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The portrait gives us an excellent look at the Queen’s brooch choice for the official welcome: the Cambridge Emerald Scroll Brooch, which originally came from the lower portion of the stomacher from the Delhi Durbar Parure. According to press reports, the Queen’s coat was “peppermint green.”
After a quick outfit change, the Belgian couple headed to Westminster Abbey, where they laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior.
After leaving the Abbey, the couple headed to Clarence House, where they were hosted for tea by the Queen Mother. The afternoon also included meetings with city council dignitaries at St. James’s Palace.
Tuesday evening was the night of the grand state banquet at Buckingham Palace. Unfortunately, because cameras were not allowed inside the event and the guests were staying at the palace, we have almost no images from the dinner. Above, you’ll see the Duchess of Gloucester arriving for the event wearing the Teck Turquoises. A news report from the Chicago Tribune offers us a description of the Queen’s attire for the banquet: “”white satin embroidered with gold and pearls,” plus the bright purple sash of the Order of Leopold. (On a related chivalric note: she made Baudouin a Knight of the Garter just before the banquet.) The Guardian reported that she wore “a pearl and diamond tiara” — so I’d wager that she chose the Vladimir Tiara for the dinner. The same paper described Queen Fabiola’s attire as “a dress of white satin entirely embroidered with pearls and other coloured stones, with a diamond tiara.” Given the importance of the occasion, I’d guess that the tiara in question is the Nine Provinces Tiara, though we know that she also had the Wolfers Tiara in her luggage.
We do know a little of what the Queen said during the speeches at the dinner. According to press reports, she declared, “The world is changing and developing, and Europe can no longer afford the conflicts and jealousies which have marked so much of its history. However, the existence of the European family is not a negative thing, to be admitted reluctantly and under pressure, but a thing to be proud of, a source of strength and vitality.”
The second day of the Belgian couple’s state visit, on Wednesday, May 15, found them in a slightly unusual place: on the River Thames. After attending morning mass at Westminster Cathedral, they boarded a barge, the Royal Nore, which took them to the City of London. They visited the Tower of London before traveling to the Guildhall for a banquet luncheon. The choice of water transportation was partly to impress the guests — and partly to help avoid disruptions of morning traffic!
Around 650 guests were in attendance at the lavish luncheon. Baudouin and Fabiola were escorted by Princess Margaret (wearing the same yellow outfit and hat she’d worn a few weeks earlier for Princess Alexandra’s wedding) and Lord Snowdon. During the luncheon, the Lord Mayor, Sir Ralph Perring, made a lengthy speech linking British and Belgian history. He noted, “The art of self-government was learned by experiment in municipal affairs. If we in the City of London may boast of having taught its principles to our friends up-stream at Westminster, we must acknowledge that we ourselves learned it very largely from the civic pioneers in Flanders. If England is the Mother of Parliaments, then Belgium must be the Grandmother.”
That evening, following a dinner party given by Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip at Buckingham Palace, the royals set off for the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden. There, they attended a gala performance hosted by the British government in the Belgian royal couple’s honor.
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Queen Fabiola dazzled in jewels for the performance, wearing the Nine Provinces Tiara, the Wolfers Necklace, and her diamond and ruby bracelet. The Daily Herald described her ensemble as a “matching coat and dress of pale grey” which were “turned into sparkling silver by encrusted glittering stones.”
Queen Elizabeth II was radiant in a shimming gown, accessorized with Queen Alexandra’s Kokoshnik, the Coronation Necklace and Earrings, and Queen Mary’s Lover’s Knot Brooch.
The royal box was full for the occasion, with around 25 guests in attendance. Among these were the Queen Mother, who wore the Greville Tiara for the performance with the Greville Emerald Necklace and Earrings.
Here’s a color view of her jewels and outfit.
Also present was Princess Margaret, who sparkled in the Poltimore Tiara with a major beehive hairdo.
The Duchess of Gloucester wore Queen Mary’s Honeysuckle Tiara in its emerald setting.
And the Princess Royal sparkled in the all-diamond setting of her scroll tiara.
There’s one more little-seen member of the royal family pictured here behind the Queen Mum: the Marchioness of Cambridge. Lady Cambridge, who was born Dorothy Hastings, was married to Queen Mary’s nephew, George, the 2nd Marquess of Cambridge. Here, Dorothy is wearing the diamond star tiara that was given to her mother-in-law as a wedding present by Queen Mary and the Duke and Duchess of Teck in 1894.
The royal party was treated to a performance of the eighteenth-century comedic ballet La Fille Mal Gardée, which theater critic Philip Hope-Wallace noted was done by the resident ballet corps “with much style and spirit.” As the royals relaxed after their two-day sprint, however, troubling news came in from Brussels. The king and queen’s sister-in-law, Princess Paola, had been in a car accident in France while driving back from Paris. She’d suffered only minor injuries, but there was significant concern. Paola hadn’t yet announced it to the public, but she was three months pregnant with her third child, Prince Laurent. Thankfully, both she and the unborn prince were healthy after the crash.
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The third day of the state visit — Thursday, May 16 — continued with more royal engagements and another gala. The couple split their time during the day, with King Baudouin traveling to the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough. Queen Fabiola, meanwhile, visited the National Gallery in London. The public was fascinated with the visiting Queen, predictably dubbing her “Fabulous Fabiola,” and the National Gallery visit was a prime example of the growing public interest. The Guardian reported that so many tourists and visitors crowded around the queen that “orders had to be given to cut down the number of people pressing around her.” Press photographers complained that tourists’ cameras were blocking them from doing their job, and gallery staff subsequently had to order visitors to stop taking pictures, too.
The royal couple reunited at Lancaster House in London, where they had tea with several British MPs and their wives. Queen Fabiola was presented with a bouquet of lily of the valley, and she told one woman present that she was “captivated by what she called their appealing beauty and their perfume.” One of the politicians in attendance commented that King Baudouin was very interested in hearing what it was like to be a British MP. The same man compared the king’s manner — “extremely brisk and alert” — to that of the Duke of Edinburgh.
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Another gala event capped off the third day of the state visit. King Baudouin and Queen Fabiola hosted a return dinner for the British royals at the Belgian Embassy in Eaton Square. For the occasion, Fabiola wore the aquamarine setting of the Spanish Wedding Gift Tiara, as well as other jewels from her aquamarine collection.
Here’s a look at Queen Fabiola’s jewels and gown in color for the dinner.
And one more, just for fun! This image shows Fabiola’s diamond and ruby bracelet rather clearly; such an interesting combination with the aquamarines.
Sadly, there isn’t a photo that I can share with you here of Queen Elizabeth’s ensemble for the banquet; you’ll have to click here to see an image of her attire. She wore the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland Tiara with jewels from the Brazilian Aquamarine Parure, accessorizing a very spangly Norman Hartnell gown. She secured the sash of the Order of Leopold with the Dorset Bow Brooch.
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The Queen Mother was resplendent as usual in the Oriental Circlet and the Crown Rubies. Here’s a fun fact: she wore the same tiara in 1937 for the return dinner at the Belgian Embassy during King Leopold III’s state visit. Love a little royal continuity!
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Princess Margaret was elegant in the Persian Turquoises for the return dinner.
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On Friday, May 17, the state visit came to an end. King Baudouin and Queen Fabiola boarded a plane to return to Brussels, accompanied by the Belgian Foreign Minister. He crowed that the royal couple had “conquered London.” In a more subdued message of thanks sent to the Queen, King Baudouin noted that he and his wife were “very moved by the cordial welcome of the British people and were confirmed in their conviction that the visit had further tightened the close links between Britain and Belgium.” She replied, agreeing that “the visit had drawn the two countries even closer together.”
Royal Jewel Rewind: The Greek Royal Wedding of 1995
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Time for the third installment in this week’s series of Greek royal wedding flashbacks! Today, we’ve got a look back at the wedding of Crown Prince Pavlos and Marie-Chantal Miller in 1995.
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| King Constantine II (with Princess Alexia) and Queen Anne-Marie (with Crown Prince Pavlos) on the day of Pavlos’s christening in Athens, 1967 (Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) |
When we left the Greek royal family yesterday, they had just celebrated the grand wedding of King Constantine II and Queen Anne-Marie in Athens. The couple quickly welcomed two children: Princess Alexia, born in Corfu in July 1965, and Crown Prince Pavlos, who was born at Tatoi Palace in Athens in May 1967.
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| The Greek royal family on Pavlos’s christening day, 1967 (L-R): Queen Friederike, Queen Anne-Marie (with Crown Prince Pavlos), Princess Alexia, Queen Sofia of Spain, King Constantine II, and (hidden) Princess Irene (Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) |
Crown Prince Pavlos’s christening was a grand affair held at the Metropolitan Cathedral in Athens, the same place his parents were married three years earlier. His sister, Alexia, had been baptized there as well. A public holiday was declared for the occasion. But trouble, as usual, was already brewing. A month before Pavlos’s birth, there was a military coup in Greece ahead of scheduled democratic elections. King Constantine II attempted to launch a counter-coup against the junta in December 1967, but the plan failed.
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| Baby Pavlos with his father at the airport in London, May 1968 (Ron Case/Keystone/Getty Images) |
The Greek royals headed into exile yet again, boarding a plane on December 13, 1967, and flying to Rome. Twenty-seven-year-old King Constantine and 21-year-old Queen Anne-Marie were accompanied by their two small children, as well as Constantine’s mother, Queen Friederike, and his sister, Princess Irene. Constantine addressed the media in English in Italy a week later, attempting to explain his actions during the past months: “I didn’t leave Greece [in April] because I hoped that by remaining I might be able to convince those in power to return the country to democracy at an early date. Faced with this revolutionary situation, I gave them a chance to prove their announced intentions. As months passed, however, it became clear there was deviation from these intentions. I decided to act. I didn’t succeed, but it remains my duty and purpose to restore parliamentary rule to Greece.” In another blow to the exiled family, two weeks after their flight from Greece, Queen Anne-Marie miscarried a child.
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| Crown Prince Pavlos and Princess Alexia arriving in Madrid with their grandmother, Queen Friederike, ca. 1970 (Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) |
The family spent months living in the Greek embassy in Rome before relocating to their own home in the city. There, the family added another member: Prince Nikolaos, born in Italy in October 1969. They remained in Italy for five years before relocating briefly to his mother’s home country of Denmark. In 1974, the monarchy in Greece was officially abolished in a referendum. The Greek people chose a republic. Constantine indicated that he accepted the will of the people on the matter, saying, “Faithful to my declaration I repeat that true normality, progress and prosperity for our country demand that national unity must come first. I pray with all my heart that future developments may justify the outcome of yesterday’s vote.” The family established themselves in a home in England, where Pavlos and his siblings were educated, and two more family members were born: Princess Theodora in 1983 and Prince Philippos in 1986. During Pavlos’s childhood, the Greek royals only set foot in Greece once, and only for a few hours, to bury Queen Friederike in 1981.
Without a throne to inherit, Crown Prince Pavlos focused on his education. He was schooled in England and the United States, earning degrees in foreign service from Georgetown University. He ultimately forged a career in investment consulting. He also undertook military training at Sandhurst, following in the footsteps of his grandfather, King Paul.
In 1992, Pavlos was one of the guests at a 40th birthday party for Philip Niarchos, son of the famous Greek shipping magnate Stavros Niarchos, in New Orleans. There, he was introduced to a young socialite, Marie-Chantal Miller. The couple’s matchmaker was the billionaire banker Alexander Papamarkou, whose father had been one King Paul’s trusted aides. Marie-Chantal later told Vanity Fair that, at least for her, the encounter was love at first sight.
Marie-Chantal (born September 17, 1968) wasn’t royal, but she came from an impressive family. Her father, Robert Warren Miller, was an American-British billionaire who gained fame after co-founding Duty Free Shops. Like King Constantine, Robert Miller was an enthusiastic sailor. Marie-Chantal’s sisters, Pia and Alexandra, had already made impressive marriages, to Christopher Getty (grandson of J. Paul) and Prince Alexander von Furstenberg (son of Diane and Egon), respectively.
Raised and educated in Hong Kong, Switzerland, and France, Marie-Chantal had moved to New York to complete high school in the 1980s. There, she met the artist Andy Warhol and began working for him at his famous “factory.” She continued her art studies briefly at New York University, but her blossoming romance with Pavlos ultimately won out over academics in the battle for her attention.
Twenty-seven-year-old Pavlos proposed to 26-year-old Marie-Chantal on a ski trip to Gstaad over the Christmas holidays in 1994, offering his fiancee a sapphire and diamond engagement ring. (Some sources report that the ring was a royal heirloom, inherited from King Paul.) King Constantine and Queen Anne-Marie officially announced the engagement in a statement released in January 1995; the King enthused, “I am over the moon about this” as he announced the upcoming wedding from his home in London. The wedding date was set for July 1995 in London. But first, Pavlos and Marie-Chantal traveled to Istanbul for a meeting with the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople. Marie-Chantal decided to convert from Roman Catholicism to her future family’s Greek Orthodox faith. The private confirmation ceremony was held in New York in May 1995.
Royals from around the world descended on London for the couple’s wedding festivities at the end of June. Pavlos’s aunt, Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, sailed to England with the Danish royals on the royal yacht, Dannebrog, in an echo of Pavlos’s mother’s arrival in Greece thirty years earlier. Margrethe and Pavlos’s grandmother, Queen Ingrid, hosted a luncheon on the day before the wedding aboard the Dannebrog, which was anchored in the River Thames near the Tower of London. Queen Elizabeth II also threw a tea for the couple at Claridge’s shortly before their big day.
Marie-Chantal’s parents also threw a lavish party for the couple on June 29, 1995, at Wrotham Park in Kent. The bash was Greek-themed, featuring blue and white decorations and tents designed to resemble the Parthenon. Flowers were flown in from Ecuador, Marie-Chantal’s mother’s home country. The royal guests, including the Duke of Edinburgh and Prince Albert of Monaco, danced until the wee hours of the morning. (Albert missed the actual wedding — his sister, Princess Stephanie, was married in Monaco on the same day.)
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| Prince Nikolaos, Princess Alexia, and Princess Irene arrive at the cathedral |
On the wedding day, 450 guests gathered at St. Sophia’s Cathedral in London for the wedding. The cathedral, located in Bayswater, was the site of many Greek royal celebrations during their various exiles. It also served as the cathedral for the entire Greek nation during the German-Italian occupation of Greece in the 1940s. Pavlos’s youngest siblings, Theodora and Philippos, were both christened in the cathedral as well. On July 1, 1995, the building held one of the largest royal gatherings in Britain in decades. The Greek royal family turned out in large numbers for the ceremony. Along with Pavlos, his parents, and his siblings, the wedding was attended by Princess Irene (Pavlos’s aunt), Lady Katherine Brandram (his great-aunt), and Princess Michael of Greece and Denmark and his wife, Marina.
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| Princess Alexandra and Angus Ogilvy arrive for the wedding |
Extended family members in attendance included Princess Georg Wilhelm of Hanover, King Michael and Queen Anne of Romania and Crown Princess Margareta, Crown Prince Alexander and Crown Princess Katherine of Yugoslavia, the Duke of Edinburgh, Queen Elizabeth II, and the Prince of Wales, as well as the Kents (Edward, Katharine, Alexandra, Angus, Michael, and Marie-Christine).
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| King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia arrive for the wedding |
Pavlos’s aunt is Queen Sofia of Spain; she attended the wedding with King Juan Carlos and their three children (plus Infanta Elena’s new husband, Jaime de Marichalar). Juan Carlos’s sisters, Infanta Pilar and Infanta Margarita, also attended with their families. Another of Pavlos’s aunts is Queen Margrethe II of Denmark; she was present with her husband, Prince Henrik, their two sons, Crown Prince Frederik and Prince Joachim, Joachim’s fiancee, Alexandra Manley, and Pavlos’s grandmother, Queen Ingrid. Princess Benedikte, Pavlos’s other maternal aunt, attended with her three children, Prince Gustav, Princess Alexandra, and Princess Nathalie.
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| King Carl XVI Gustaf, Queen Silvia, and Crown Princess Victoria arrive at the cathedral |
Numerous monarchs, both reigning and non, were in attendance as well. King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia of Sweden attended with Crown Princess Victoria. Grand Duke Jean and Grand Duchess Josephine-Charlotte of Luxembourg were there with Hereditary Grand Duke Henri, Hereditary Grand Duchess Maria Teresa, and Prince Guillaume. The Prince of Orange represented the Netherlands, and Prince Laurent stood in for his father, the King of the Belgians.
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| The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester take their seats in the cathedral |
Prince Hans-Adam II of Lichtenstein was there, as was the Aga Khan IV and King Hussein and Queen Noor of Jordan (with Prince Hassan and Princess Sarvath). Farah Pahlavi, widow of the last Shah of Iran, was present with her four children and her daughter-in-law. Pretenders from Italy, Bulgaria, and Portugal were on the guest list, too, as were the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, the Queen Mother, and Lord and Lady Romsey. (The Queen Mum decided not to attend the wedding in person, instead watching a broadcast on screens set up Hampton Court Palace with more than 800 other guests who wouldn’t fit in the cathedral.)
When Marie-Chantal arrived at the cathedral with her father, she was clad in a remarkable silk gown trimmed with twelve different kinds of lace. The dress was made for her by Valentino, who also designed the dresses worn by her bridesmaids, Princess Theodora, Lady Alexandra Knatchbull, Marietta Chandris, and Isabel Getty.
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| Marie-Chantal walks down the aisle of the cathedral |
Marie-Chantal wore a long veil of Chantilly lace that was secured by the Antique Corsage Tiara, on loan from her mother-in-law, Queen Anne-Marie.
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| Prince Nikolaos holds crowns over the heads of the bride and groom |
Following Greek Orthodox tradition, no words were spoken by the bride and groom during the ceremony. (For this reason, the couple apparently had to have a small English-language civil ceremony to make their marriage fully legal in England.) They stood beneath heavy gold wedding crowns, held aloft by a series of crown bearers: Prince Nikolaos of Greece and Denmark (the groom’s brother), Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark (his first cousin), the Prince of Asturias (his first cousin), Prince Gustav of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (his first cousin), Prince Guillaime of Luxembourg, the Prince of Orange, Prince Kardam of Bulgaria, and the bride’s brothers-in-law, Christopher Getty and Prince Alexander von Furstenburg.
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| The couple walks around the table as rose petals fall from above |
Thousands of Greeks watched live on television as the couple were showered with rose petals during the ceremony. (The Danish royal family’s personal florist was responsible for the flowers in the cathedral.) The coverage of the wedding irked many in Greece, as did the presence of several Greek politicians at the ceremony. Prime Minister Papandreou declared that lawmakers supporting the monarchy should resign.
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| Crown Prince Pavlos and King Constantine greet members of the public gathered outside the cathedral |
Ultimately, though, the public reaction to the wedding in Greece was reportedly relatively minor, though opinion polls registered a small uptick in support for the monarchy. A small group gathered near the cathedral in London, waving Greek flags and cheering for the newlyweds.
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| King Constantine and Queen Anne-Marie during the wedding ceremony |
As the ceremony concluded, we got a good look at some of the jewels worn by the royal guests. Queen Anne-Marie wore pearls and diamonds, including her diamond swan brooch and the diamond cross pendant she wore on her own wedding day in 1964.
Queen Elizabeth II wore one of the diamond and pearl brooches she inherited from her grandmother, Queen Mary: the Kensington Bow Brooch. Grand Duchess Josephine-Charlotte of Luxembourg also wore pearls, as did Queen Silvia of Sweden, who wore the pearl necklace that had belonged to her late mother-in-law, Princess Sibylla.
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| Queen Ingrid and King Constantine at the wedding reception (Sean Dempsey/PA Images/Alamy) |
Queen Ingrid of Denmark wore the Diamond Daisy Brooch, a jewel made using diamonds that belonged to her British mother, Margaret of Connaught. The brooch now belongs to her daughter Queen Margrethe II of Denmark.
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| Queen Noor, Queen Sofia, and King Juan Carlos after the ceremony |
Queen Noor of Jordan and Queen Sofia of Spain both wore floral brooches.
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| Queen Ingrid, King Constantine, Queen Anne-Marie, Crown Prince Pavlos, Marie-Chantal, and the Millers at Hampton Court Palace for the wedding reception (Sean Dempsey/PA Images/Alamy) |
After the guests departed from the cathedral, they headed to Hampton Court Palace, which had been made available to the couple for their afternoon reception. The event was coordinated by another royal cousin, Lady Elizabeth Anson. Hello! reported that more than a thousand guests ate lobster and sipped champagne at the reception. According to New York Magazine, the combined cost of the Wrotham Park gala and the Hampton Court palace was in the neighborhood of five million dollars.
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| Pavlos and Marie-Chantal attend a gala banquet for Queen Margrethe II’s Ruby Jubilee in Denmark, January 2012 (Chris Jackson/Getty Images) |
Twenty-five years after the wedding, Crown Prince Pavlos and Princess Marie-Chantal aren’t any closer to the Greek throne, though members of the former family have been allowed in recent years to return to live in their native country. (Also — Marie-Chantal has gotten to wear the grand diamond tiara that belonged to Queen Sophie.) The couple have five children — Princess Maria-Olympia, Prince Constantine-Alexios, Prince Achileas-Andreas, Prince Odysseas-Kimon, and Prince Aristidis-Stavros — and have divided their time largely between New York and London. Pavlos has continued to work in the world of investments, while Marie-Chantal is the owner of a successful children’s clothing brand.
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