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I think the reason that it 2015 looked best is also that it her hair was not swiped to the side as she often does but centered.
I think the reason that it 2015 looked best is also that it her hair was not swiped to the side as she often does but centered.
This is an amazing tiara, but you are right, it only works for Maxima if the hair does not have a side parting or a sideways bias.
Me thinking - this is a great tiara for PCA. It was great for Beatrix when she was Queen - and CA is resembling her grandmother.
Does anyone recognise the earrings that Queen Maxima wore at the start of the Korean state visit? Have we seen them before?
https://editorial01.shutterstock.com/wm-preview-1500/14254114bd/59c0e89b/Shutterstock_14254114bd.jpg
Are those the diamond and sapphire earrings that were worn to the Investiture ceremony in the Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam?
https://www.thecourtjeweller.com/2021/09/queen-maximas-stunning-sapphire-tiara.html
I believe she first wore them during the dinner with the government in the Hall of Knights, shortly before her wedding.
https://www.anpfoto.nl/downloadpicturepreview.pp?pictureid=302107952
They belong to Pss Beatrix and were made of pieces of Queen Wilhelmina's broken up Amsterdam parure. There is a longer version too.
https://www.modekoninginmaxima.nl/maximas-saffieren-oorhangers/ (number 4)
All four granddaughters of Wilhelmina received sapphire earrings that were made from this parure. Máxima wore Pss Margriet's earrings from this parure during the inauguration, as shown by An Ard Ri above. I imagine these earrings can be shortened too. So she may indeed be wearing that, though it makes more sense to wear her mother-in-law's version.
Margriet's lower sapphire is more a circle while the one of Beatrix is more oval shaped. In the pictures of Máxima today it is difficult to pinpoint which of these shapes the lower part have.
That probably makes her #1 in number of tiara appearances in 2023 among the royal ladies, doesn't it?
Máxima: 8
Camilla: 6
Mary: 6
Margrethe: 5
Silvia: 5
Sonja: 5
Victoria: 5
I read that the problem with these big brooches/stomachers is that they are rather heavy. Without any additional support they may rip apart a dress. That is why the Queen tends to attach them to something else than her dress alone. But it is a stomacher and it is worn on the stomach this time.
Sapphires and diamonds for Maxima for the recording of the Christmas Music Gala 2023 in Bussum today, December 14:
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