Royal bling: The Vladimir Tiara

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Royal jewelry and especially tiara's mostly have a wonderful and sometimes
surprising history. In this blogpost we take a closer look to the Vladimir Tiara.

The Grand Duchess Vladimir Tiara, sometimes the Diamond and Pearl Tiara,
was bought, along with a diamond rivière, by Queen Mary from
Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna of Russia, mother of the
Duchess of Kent, in 1921 for a price of £28,000. 


Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna and her mother

Source picture: Wikipedia


The grand duchess, known after her marriage as Princess Nicholas of Greece,
inherited it from her mother, Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna, who received it
as a wedding gift from her husband in 1874. It originally had 15 large drop
pearls, and was made by the jeweller Carl Edvard Bolin at a cost of
48,200 rubles.


Princess Mary of Teck wearing the Vladimir Tiara.

More about Princess Mary of Teck on this link.

Source picture: Wikipedia


During the Russian Revolution in 1917, the tiara was hidden with other jewels
somewhere in Vladimir Palace in Petrograd, and later saved from Soviet Russia
by Albert Stopford, a British art dealer and secret agent. 

In the years to follow, Princess Nicholas sold pieces of jewellery from her
collection to support her exiled family and various charities.

Queen Mary had the tiara altered to accommodate 15 of the Cambridge
cabochon emeralds. The original drop pearls can easily be replaced as an
alternative to the emeralds. Elizabeth II inherited the tiara directly from
her grandmother in 1953. 

It is almost exclusively worn together with the Cambridge and Delhi Durbar
parures, also containing large emeralds. Elizabeth wore the tiara in her official
portrait as Queen of Canada as none of the Commonwealth realms besides the
United Kingdom have their own crown jewels.




👉 More Royal Bling? Read also the blogpost about the 
Girls of Great Britain and Ireland Tiara on this link. 

Location: Verenigd Koninkrijk

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