The rarely-seen Spencer tiara will appear alongside dozens of other historic headpieces in a Sotheby’s exhibition marking the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.
observed age-old tiara etiquette by not borrowing from the royal vault. Instead, she emerged from her carriage at St Paul’s Cathedral with her own family’s heirloom, the Spencer tiara, securing her 140-metre David and Elizabeth Emanuel-designed tulle veil.
The Spencer Tiara, worn by Princess Diana throughout her lifetime, will be on display at a new Sotheby’s exhibition.
A glittering burden accumulates from the frame, diamonds and sharp mechanisms allowing the headpiece to be broken down into brooches and necklaces. The dazzlingly grand 19th-century heirlooms from stately homes across the country; the Derby, Fitzwilliam, Roseberry, and Devonshire Palm and Lotus, on loan from Chatsworth, are not for the faint-hearted.
Loelia, the Duchess of Westminster, wearing the Lacloche Westminster Halo tiara, photographed by Cecil Beaton in 1930.The sparkliest gathering of tiaras in recent history was at Her Majesty’s coronation on 2 June 1953, and at least a dozen of the tiaras on display at Sotheby’s adorned aristocratic heads assembled in Westminster Abbey that day. These tiaras offer a glimpse into history.
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