Princess Katharina Henckel von Donnersmarck’s Emerald and Diamond Tiara

Princess Katharina Henckel von Donnersmarck’s Emerald and Diamond Tiara The tiara is composed of eleven rare Colombian emerald pear-shaped drops, which are rumored to have belonged to Empress Eugenie. The tiara was commissioned around 1900 by a German prince for wife, Katharina, and was last sold at a Sotheby’s auction in Geneva for $12.7 million.

Queen Victoria’s Emerald and Diamond Tiara

Queen Victoria’s emerald and diamond tiara designed by Prince Albert in 1845. The Tiara, featuring cushion-shaped diamonds, step-cut emeralds and 19 inverted pear-shaped emeralds, was designed by Prince Albert, along with the emerald necklace, earrings and brooch, and commissioned by jeweller Joseph Kitching for £1,150 before being presented to Queen Victoria in 1845, who wrote…

Poltimore Tiara

This tiara was worn by Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon on several occasions (including her wedding)  Poltimore Tiara Designed as a graduated line of cushion-shaped and old-cut diamond clusters alternating with diamond-set scroll motifs, each surmounted by old-cut diamond terminals, to the collet-set diamond line, mounted in silver and gold, circa 1870, 19.2 cm. maximum diameter,…

Pomp and circumstance: The Cambridge Lover’s Knot tiara

The Cambridge Lover’s Knot tiara was made in the early 19th century, possibly in Germany, for Princess Augusta of Hesse Cassel, Duchess of Cambridge. It passed to her daughter, the Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg Strelitz, and her great granddaughter, Princess Jutta of Montenegro, before its sale at Christie’s in 1981.  A copy was made at…