Equally magnificent as the jewels are the histories that belong to each tiara, or `fender bender’ as Theresa, Marchioness of Londonderry fondly referred to hers links of london bracelets. Lady Londonderry, in fact, spent the better half of the Coronation of Edward VII trying to get her family heirlooms out of the facilities at Westminster Abbey, where she had dropped them. Pity, too, the poor Duke of Portland, who in 1920 sat on the valuable Portland diamonds as he tried to talk to his beloved wife while she was dressing for dinner links of london bangles. `Naturally, the tiara was broken to bits,’ he wrote in his diary, `while the lower part of my poor person resembled the diamond mines of Golconda.’
Part of the allure of this show, therefore, is the access to celebrity and royalty. But what is more intriguing and touching is how many tiaras were not made for status, but were tokens of love between men and women, fathers and daughters, and brides and grooms links of london sale. Prince Albert designed at least four tiaras for Queen Victoria, which she could not bear to wear after his death; Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother loved the diamond wild-rose tiara her father gave her when she married the Duke of York. Even Posh Spice had one made for her wedding to footballer David Beckham links of london earrings.
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