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Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (1952- ) |
King George VI of the United Kingdom (1936-1952) |
King George V of the United Kingdom (1910-1936) |
Coronation Portrait of King George V and Queen Mary. King George wears the Imperial State Crown and Queen Mary wears the crown she requested for her Coronation as Queen Consort, Queen Mary's Crown. | Queen Mary wearing her crown, The Crown of Queen Mary minus its arches, as a circlet. The Crown contains The Koh-i-Noor Diamond as well as The Cullinan IV and The Cullinan III Diamonds. |
Queen Mary wearing the Diamond Parure of Queen Alexandra without the center diamond stone. (pictured below) | King George wears the Imperial State Crown while Mary wears her Delhi Durbar Tiara |
King Edward VII of Great Britain (1901-1910) |
Queen Victoria of Great Britain (1837-1901) |
Her Majesty Queen Victoria of Great Britain The Small Diamond Crown of Queen Victoria was a miniature crown created at the request of Queen Victoria in 1870. It was perhaps the crown most associated with Queen Victoria. The crown itself is made of silver. It contains 1,187 diamonds. Diamonds, unlike coloured stones, were seen as permissible to wear in mourning. The diamonds all came from a necklace owned by Queen Victoria. | What happened to the Crown? The small diamond crown had technically belonged to Queen Victoria personally, rather than to the British Crown, and thus was not part of the British Crown Jewels. But in her will, Victoria left it to the British Crown. It was subsequently worn on occasions by the Queen consort, Alexandra of Denmark (1901-1910) and after her by the next Queen consort, Mary of Teck. After the death of Mary's husband, George V the crown ceased to be worn by her. When the new Queen consort, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon decided not to wear the small crown it was deposited into the Jewel House in the Tower of London in 1937, where it remains on permanent show. |
Painting of Queen Victoria wearing the King George Diadem | Painting of Queen Victoria wearing a Diamond Parure. |
Other British Royals |
Prince Charles of Wales | |
Prince Edward of Wales, (Later King Edward VIII of Great Britain) | Princess Royal Mary with her brother Prince Edward at the coronation of their parents in 1911. |
Princess Mary of York, Princess Royal; Daughter of King George and Mary of Teck | Princess Maud of Wales Queen consort of Norway Daughter of King Edward VII and Queen Consort Alexandra |
The crown is currently worn as a tiara by Princess Ragnhild. The diamond prongs on the tiara were originally interchangable with turquoises, and Queen Maud often wore the tiara in this version before she inherited the other turquoise tiara. More info on the tiara page. | |
Princess Maud of Wales, Queen Consort of Norway and King Haakon VII of Norway | Princess Patricia of Connaught's coronet Princess Patricia, Queen Victoria's granddaughter, wore this coronet, supplied by royal jewellers Garrard, to her uncle King Edward VII's coronation in 1902. It consist of a purple velvet cap and a hall marked silver gilt circlet with two crosses patees, two strawberry leaves and four fleurs de lys. |
Princess Alexandra, Duchess of Fife Daughter of Princess Royal, Louise of Great Britain | Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester Wife to Prince Henry of Great Britain, Duke of Gloucester |
Princess Margaret of Connaught, later Crown Princess of Sweden (L), her mother Princess Louise of Prussia, wife of the 7th son of Queen Victoria, Prince Arthur of Connaught (C), and sister Princess Patricia of Connaught | Princess Helena of Waldeck, Duchess of Albany. She married into the British Royal family and became wife to Queen Victoria's son Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany. |
Queen consort Marie of Romania born Princess Marie of Edinburgh, daughter of Prince Alfred of the United Kingdom, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha Marie was the grandchild of Queen Victoria | |
The Imperial Crown of Lady Theresa, The Marchioness of Londonderry Lady Londonderry had a real Imperial Crown surmounted by an exquisite cross in magnificent brilliants: it was an exact copy of a crown owned by Empress Maria Theresa of Austria. It was made from Lady Londonderry's own jewels; several necklaces and bracelets had been broken up to make it. Below the Imperial Crown, the Lady is also wearing the famous diamond Londonderry Tiara. | Lady Theresa, The Marchioness of Londonderry |
Daisy, Princess of Pless née Mary Theresa Olivia Cornwallis-West She was a descendant of Mary Boleyn through her daughter Catherine Carey and Sir Francis Knollys. | Consuelo Vanderbilt, Duchess of Marlborough dressed for Edward VII Coronation. Consuelo was an American born heiress of the Vanderbilt family who married Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough. |
Lord & Lady Kelvin presided over the Coronation of Edward VII in 1902. | HRH Princess Victoria's Coronet which she wore to the Coronation of King Edward VII in 1902. Above, unknown crown.. |