Time for yet another look at the jewels from the most recent episode of Victoria! This week, Victoria and Albert argued about little Bertie’s education, and Victoria and Palmerston quarreled about Louis Kossuth. There were attempts at extramarital shenanigans, and no tiaras to speak of. Let’s have a look at the jewels we did spot in the episode.

Most of the episode took place at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight, so we had lots of daytime jewelry. My favorite was probably this amethyst-like brooch, which does seem suitably Victorian.

We also saw Victoria wearing this little floral brooch…

…and this swan brooch…

…and this one, which looks floral-y in design…

…and then the swan again…

…and then finally this interesting little gold one.

We also saw this brooch on Emma Portman, whose chief occupation this season appears to be preventing other characters from committing adultery.

And this enormous gold-framed cameo on (the fictional) Sophie Monmouth, whose chief occupation appears to be trying to commit adultery with either a foreign secretary or a footman — take your pick.

Sophie also wore this interesting set of opals, which looks awfully modern to me, or at least the necklace does.

Princess Feodora, whose characterization continues to absolutely baffle me, wore this daytime cameo…

…and this brooch, which looks like amber.

There weren’t any tiaras in this week’s dinner scenes, and I’m not sure whether to be sad or relieved about that. Victoria wore pearls and a cameo for this scene…

…and pearls and this little brooch (and a day dress???) for this dinner scene, where she flung a glass of water dramatically at Albert like she was in Dynasty, not on Masterpiece.

At least we got some interesting Hair Pearls after that brouhaha.

Feodora’s evening jewelry continues to tend toward the macabre…

…and the confusingly almost-modern.

Emma Portman’s evening jewelry looks as bored as she does, frankly.

While Sophie Monmouth’s is somewhere between ultra-demure, all flowers and seed pearls…

…and come-hither.

She’s also the only female character we saw in a third evening ensemble, with this interesting (but not particularly Victorian, I’d say) necklace and that opal brooch. Lots of evening/day jewelry crossovers here, which — eh.

What’s your take on this week’s not-so-royal jewels on Victoria? Are you happy they’re not showing off bad replicas of real jewels often, or do you wish they’d try a little more?

This week’s episode of Victoria wasn’t exactly a jewelry jubilee. With the birth of Princess Louise, and a plot that revolved around whether or not the Chartists were going to try to hurt the Queen (spoiler — they weren’t), there was little room for grand jewelry.

Instead, we got a whole lot of day jewelry, including a bunch of brooches we’ve seen Victoria wear fairly often on the show. Like this cameo…

…and this silvery filigree brooch…

…and this swan brooch, paired here with a weird necklace featuring some seed pearl drops.

We also saw Victoria wear these little pearl earrings as she fretted about her popularity in London…

…and these pearl drop earrings and interesting brooch as she fretted about it on the Isle of Wight.

We also got a brooch from the (still fictional) Sophie Monmouth.

The star of the jewelry show in this episode was really Princess Feodora. Can’t figure out quite what they’re trying to do with her, but you can all probably guess that the depiction of her character is pretty far from reality. (It is Victoria, after all!) Here, she’s in evening jewels as she rushes in while Victoria is giving birth.

The episode did give us one jewelry close-up, thought it was sadly of this production-invented necklace from Victoria’s jewelry box.

But instead of Victoria reaching for the necklace, it was Feodora. Honestly, Feo, have at it. Maybe then Victoria will grab some replicas of genuine royal jewels instead!

This Sunday, the first episode of the latest season of Victoria aired here in the States on PBS. Today, we’ve got a look at the jewels from the premiere.

A quick note: in the past, I’ve done full recaps of Victoria on the site, but I won’t be doing so this season. (The reasons are two-fold: the recaps take an incredibly long time to research and write, and not enough people have been reading them to justify the work.)

So here’s an incredibly quick rundown of the plot (such as it is) of this episode: it’s 1848, Queen Victoria is pregnant with her sixth child (Princess Louise), and King Louis-Philippe of the French has just been knocked off his throne. He arrives to seek exile in England just as the Chartists are organizing a petition, making life complicated for Victoria and Albert and the prime minister (Lord John Russell) and the foreign secretary (Lord Palmerston). There’s also a new (fictional) Mistress of the Robes at court, the Duchess of Monmouth. Oh, and Victoria’s (real) half-sister, Princess Feodora of Leiningen, although the series makes it seem like the two barely know each other, when the real sisters corresponded throughout their lives.

As far as the jewels go, we’ve got some interesting pieces. One of the first jewelry shots is this overhead view of the replica of the George IV Diamond Diadem. Note that the production version appears to have been made as a circle rather than a slight oval — no wonder it doesn’t fit very well on a human head!

We see Victoria wearing the diadem at court with an invented suite of diamond and emerald jewelry. Based on promotional photos, it looks like this suite was made to “coordinate” with the production’s most successful replica, the Diamond and Emerald Tiara (which does not appear in this episode, sadly). Too bad they didn’t just replicate the actual suite of jewels that goes along with that tiara — especially as they’re on view at Kensington Palace right now for all to see!

Anyway, back to the diadem: it makes an appearance on one more character in the episode, little Princess Vicky. Little Prince Bertie refuses to try it on, saying that “crowns are for girls.” The show does seem to be sort of depicting real life here — Bertie apparently thought for years that his sister was going to be the monarch, not him.

At that court reception, we see Emma Portman in these jewels…

…and the invented new Mistress of the Robes, the Duchess of Monmouth, in these jewels. (In 1848, the Duchess of Sutherland was the real Mistress of the Robes.)

We also got a bit of daytime jewelry, all production-invented. This cameo brooch featured in multiple scenes.

This delicate little leaf brooch also made a lengthy appearance.

And we also saw this silvery little oval brooch with what appears to be filigree-style detail.

We also got a day brooch on Emma Portman…

…and an opalescent day brooch on Sophie Monmouth.

The episode also features tiaras and jewels for a reception held in honor of King Louis-Philippe. Victoria wears all production-invented jewels here, including a tiara, necklace, brooch, and another necklace in her hair.

Here’s a better look at her necklace. (Doesn’t improve much on closer view, I’m afraid.)

We also got a sad little tiara on Emma Portman, combined with gold-toned jewels…

…as well as these on Sophie Monmouth. The jewels aren’t impressive, but there is at least a little continuity here: Sophie explains that her brooch was a gift from the Queen, and it was indeed worn by Victoria last season.

One more little bit of reception jewelry from the episode: this is Princess Feodora, who is presented in the show as a sinister stranger. She wears a non-descript necklace and brooch to play the piano for the deposed French king.