#county of surrey tiara

[charlotte-of-wales]

Royal Tiaras Highlights: Queen Mary’s Honeysuckle Tiara

The tiara was made by E. Wolff and Co. on a commission from Garrard, and at the request of Queen Mary of the United Kingdom in 1914. The tiara used some recycled royal diamonds, taken from the County of Surrey Tiara and the Ladies of England Tiara. It’s a very flexible piece as the central element of the tiara is able to accommodate several different stones.

In 1935, Mary gave the tiara to her new daughter-in-law, Lady Alice Montagu Douglas Scott, when she married Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester. Along with the tiara, Alice received three stones that can be used on the center of the piece: a diamond, an emerald and a kunzite. Princess Alice eventually passed on the tiara to her own daughter-in-law, Birgitte, the current Duchess of Gloucester.

[royalpain16]

QUEEN MARY’S COUNTY OF SURREY TIARA

05.15.2022 by THECOURTJEWELLER

Our May survey on the jewels that belonged to May of Teck—better known to history as Queen Mary—continues today with another wedding gift that was dismantled to make two spectacular royal tiaras.

When Princess Victoria Mary of Teck married Prince George, Duke of York in July 1893, she received a haul of wedding gift jewelry that was certainly fit for a future queen consort. Among the gifts displayed at White Lodge, her parents’ home in Richmond, was this stylized diamond floral fringe tiara. On Monday, July 3, the Earl and Countess of Lovelace had presented the tiara to Princess May and her parents at a garden party held at White Lodge. Lord Lovelace was the Lord-Lieutenant of Surrey, and the gift was offered on behalf of the people of the county (and notably, he was also the widower of Ada Lovelace, the famous computer programmer and daughter of Lord Byron).

During the presentation, the Evening Standard reported that the Duke of Teck told Lord Lovelace that the gift was “an additional testimony to the good feeling shown by the people of Surrey to members of his family.” The Duchess of Teck added that “she hoped she might add her thanks to the people of Surrey on behalf of her daughter, who would still often be seen among them.” (I find it interesting that the Duchess spoke on May’s behalf when May was standing right beside them, holding the new diamond tiara in her hands.)

Funds for the tiara (pictured above as part of an illustrated list of the wedding presents) had been collected from Surrey residents by subscription, with Lovelace’s second wife, Jane, helping to organize the effort. Contemporary newspaper reports described the tiara as designed “in the Empire style. The centre is formed of a tapering upright, two and three-quarter inches in length, with scroll sides, holding large single diamonds, and supported by a fleur-de-lis base surmounting a band of single diamonds. On each side of the centre there is an upright ray, with three important single brilliant. The same design is repeated in gradations throughout, and has an unusually graceful effort, whether worn as a tiara or as a necklace. The gift, which cost £1,200, contains over 300 brilliants, many of large size.”

Mary wore the tiara setting of the piece for a famous series of portraits taken in London by W. & D. Downey in March 1901. The photographs were taken ahead of Mary and George’s eight-month tour of the Empire, visiting all corners of the globe following the accession of King Edward VII. In the images, May still wears a dark dress and gloves, as the court was still in mourning for Queen Victoria. Indeed, an entire wardrobe of black clothing was made for her to wear on the tour.

Here’s one more photograph from the March 1901 session, showing off the design details of May’s gown quite nicely. You’ll also spot a diamond leaf brooch pinned to her bodice, and a diamond floral bracelet on her right wrist. I believe the diamond flower was later reset as part of a new pearl bracelet, now worn by the Queen.

With the dark ensemble, she wore diamonds and pearls, including the County of Surrey Tiara. Other jewels worn in this portrait session include her eleven-row pearl choker necklace, with its distinctive diamond spacer sections, and the Kapurthala Stomacher, a grand diamond ornament given to her as a wedding present by the Maharajah of Karpurthala. The choker necklace is now worn by the Duchess of Gloucester, while the stomacher was redesigned and now belongs to the Queen.

After Queen Victoria’s death in 1901, George and May had held the rather clunky title of Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York. At the end of their imperial tour in November 1901, King Edward VII offered his thanks by upgrading them to the title of Prince and Princess of Wales. The new Princess of Wales wore the necklace setting of the Surrey Tiara a few months later during her father-in-law’s 1902 coronation festivities.

In this portrait from the time of the coronation, she pairs the Surrey Necklace with two new-to-her jewels: the Love Trophy Collar (made by Garrard in 1901) and the Boucheron Loop Tiara (made in 1902 using diamonds that had been given to her by De Beers during the imperial tour). The Love Trophy Collar is still in the Buckingham Palace Vaults today, but the Boucheron Loop Tiara was later broken up (to make the Delhi Durbar Tiara).

Eventually, May decided to have the County of Surrey Tiara dismantled as well. In 1913, the piece was broken apart, and the diamonds were used to construct and improve other jewels. Thirteen of the largest diamonds from the Surrey Tiara, for example, were used to replace the upright pearls which had once sat atop the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland Tiara (worn here by the Queen in 2004).

[tiaramania]

Hi, I know all Van Cutsem daughter-in-laws wore tiaras but I could find out only about lady Tamara and Rose Astor's wedding tiaras. Which wedding tiaras did Rosanna Ruck-keene and Alice Hadden-Paton wore? Why does Rosanna Ruck-Keene's wedding tiara looks so similar to Princess Madeleine's wedding tiara? Are they same? How are they related to lend her tiara?

I’m afraid I don’t know anything more about Alice and Rosie’s tiaras. I would guess that they belong to their families.  Rosie’s tiara is a style called a modified fringe tiara which is a pretty common design in the late Victorian & Edwardian eras but the Swedish Modern Fringe Tiara is the only one that currently belongs to a royal.  Queen Mary had two of them (her Wedding Tiara and the County of Surrey Tiara) but she apparently wasn’t fond of the design and dismantled both of them to create other tiaras.  Most modified fringes have these thin fleur de lys-ish elements that almost don’t look like fleurs de lys anymore and the fringes have only a few diamonds spaced out instead of a solid pointy spike.  Like regular fringes they are usually convertible to necklaces.  I’ll work on getting a tiara motifs post on the modified fringes so you know what I mean because I’m bad at describing them.

Lady Tamara Grosvenor at her wedding to Edward van Cutsem in 2004 wearing the Westminster Myrtle Tiara

Rose Astor at her wedding to Hugh van Cutsem in 2005 wearing the Heathcote Tiara borrowed from her cousin, Jane Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, 28th Baroness Willoughby de Eresby

Alice Hadden-Paton at her wedding to Nicholas van Cutsem in 2009

Rosanna ‘Rosie’ Ruck-Keene at her wedding to William van Cutsem in 2013

Here’s a comparison with the Swedish Modern Fringe Tiara.  Rosie’s doesn’t wrap as far around the side of the head, has a more solid diamond base, and has spikes with three diamonds interspaced with the fleur-de-lys like elements.

A few years ago there was some discussion that the Swedish Modern Fringe Tiara might be the same as the one owned by Leonora Bennett, Countess of Tankerville (x)(x)(x) but the quality of the pictures really aren’t good enough to tell for sure and like I said is was a common design.

[normalsiim]

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[heavyarethecrowns]

The Gloucester Palmette tiara, a graduated frieze of styled honeysuckle. The central ornament is made to be separable. Made 1913/14 from diamonds taken from Queen Mary's County of Surrey tiara and was a present to the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester (Princess Alice) on their wedding. The Parure was then passed on to the current Duchess of Gloucester, Birgitte, who wears it with two different central stones: emerald (centre) and pink topaz (below)

[livinglikebritishroyalty]

𝒯𝒾𝒶𝓇𝒶 𝒯𝓊𝑒𝓈𝒹𝒶𝓎

𝒯𝒾𝒶𝓇𝒶 𝒩𝒶𝓂𝑒

The Gloucester Honeysuckle Tiara

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𝒪𝓌𝓃𝑒𝓇𝓈/𝒲𝑒𝒶𝓇𝑒𝓇𝓈:

♕ Her Majesty Queen Mary (1913-1935): Commissioned the Tiara from Garrad but was made by E. Wolff & Co. in 1913.

♕ Her Royal Highness Princess Alice The Duchess of Gloucester (1935-1972): A wedding present from her mother-in-law Her Majesty Queen Mary for her wedding to His Royal Highness Prince Henry The Duke of Gloucester. She inherited the Pink Topaz part of the tiara when Queen Mary died in 1953.

♕ Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II: Inherited the Cullinan V Brooch of the Tiara as she was the first granddaughter of Queen Mary through her father His Majesty King George VI.

♕ Her Royal Highness The Princess Margaret Countess of Snowdon: Inherited the Sapphire Brooch of the Tiara as she was the second granddaughter of Queen Mary through her father His Majesty King George VI.

♕ Her Royal Highness Birgitte The Duchess of Gloucester (1972 - Present): The Duchess inherited the The Gloucester Honeysuckle Tiara from her mother in law Her Royal Highness Princess Alice The Duchess of Gloucester. The Duchess wears the tiara with the Diamond Honeysuckle, The Pink Topaz, & an Emerald that’s surrounded by diamonds. This is the most common tiara the duchess wears out of her 6 tiaras. 

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𝒞𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃 𝒴𝑒𝒶𝓇:

Her Majesty Queen Mary, commissioned the Tiara from Garrad but was made by E. Wolff & Co. in 1913.

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𝒟𝑒𝓈𝒾𝑔𝓃:

The tiara began as a pile of deconstructed jewels. This known of Queen Mary to was create her tiaras using deconstructed or unused jewels. Some of the jewels of the Honeysuckle Tiara were taken off of the Surrey Tiara & plus new jewels that were bought were included in the new tiara. It was made to have an Interchangeable Graduated Center element as Queen Mary was known to change the jewels of her tiaras when worn. The Frame of the Honeysuckle Tiara was made from diamonds & had palmette motifs that lead up to a large center. The center of the tiara could be the heart shaped Cullinan V Brooch, a Diamond Brooch, a Sapphire Brooch, or a Pink Topaz Brooch. Over time, the tiara has been altered which included lowering the tiara & removing some of the diamonds from the center. The tiara was passed down from Queen Mary to Princess Alice The Duchess of Gloucester & was altered once again. The center of the tiara, had a diamond honeysuckle which went along with the rest of the motifs of the tiara. The Cullinan V Brooch & Pink Topaz Brooch, were not given to Alice when she received the tiara. The Cullinan V Brooch was inherited by Queen Elizabeth, 

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𝑅𝑜𝓎𝒶𝓁 𝐸𝓋𝑒𝓃𝓉𝓈

*Note: These Events Were Not Easy To Find. There will be a lot of events not listed.*

♕ 1937: Queen Mary’s Official Portrait for the Coronation Souvenir Cigarette Cards produced for Tournament Cigarettes.

♕ 1982: Princess Alice wears the tiara for the Order of the Bath at Westminster Abbey in London.

♕ 1993: Birgitte The Duchess of Gloucester wears the tiara for The Return Banquet Given by The Agong of Malaysia at the Dorchester Hotel.

♕ 2005: Birgitte The Duchess of Gloucester wears the tiara for dinner at the Guildhall for The Norwegian State Visit in Honor of The Norwegian Royal Family.

♕ 2014: Birgitte The Duchess of Gloucester wears the tiara for The Singapore Banquet in Honor of President Tony Tan Keng Yam.

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𝐹𝓊𝓃 𝐹𝒶𝒸𝓉𝓈:

♕ Some believe that the The Gloucester Honeysuckle Tiara was one of the items that came from the estate of Tsarina Marie Feodorovna of Russia (sister of Queen Alexandra). This was believed of the tiara due to the shape of the piece that does resemble some kokoshnik-style Romanov tiaras,

♕ Some of the jewels of The Gloucester Honeysuckle Tiara come from the County of Surrey Tiara which was also used for The Girls of Great Britain and Ireland Tiara.

♕ The pink gemstone has been called a pink topaz, but it is apparently a kunzite. A Kunzite is a stone that had been discovered only a decade before the tiara was created.

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[thebritishmonarchycouk]

Queen Mary (1867-1953) when Princess of Wales 1905 . By W & D DOWNEY (ACTIVE 1855-1941) . . Photograph of Queen Mary when Princess of Wales standing & facing three-quarters right. She holds a closed fan in her hands & wears the Love Trophy Collar, together with the tiara made by Boucheron in 1902 (dismantled to make the Delhi Durbar Tiara), the County of Surrey Necklace/Tiara, dismantled in 1913-14 & the Kensington Brooch. On her satin dress she wears the Royal Family Orders of Queen Victoria & Edward VII. Her dress is sequinned with pearls on the arms. . 📷 Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2020 . . . #britishroyalty #britishmonarchy #hermajestythequeen #thequeen #monarchy #godsavethequeen #hermajesty #britishroyals #Maryofteck #queenmary #royalstyle #crownroyal #thecrown #PrincessofWales #houseofwindsor #britishroyalfamily #royalfamily #ukroyals #QueenConsort #buckinghampalace #windsorcastle #vintagephotography #BritishQueen #RoyalWindsor #London (at London, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBCwlJtDtGv/?igshid=3p5yx5ieic1j

[tiaramania]

Can you make a huge post of the tiaras collected by Queen Mary (provenance and their current owner)? That woman knows her jewels and rocks tiaras!

This is my attempt at listing all of the tiaras of Queen Mary but honestly I’m sure I’m missing some.  There are several tiaras here that we know she owned but she was never pictured in like Queen Victoria’s Sapphire Tiara.  This was a woman that reportedly wore a tiara to dinner every night so it’s very possible that there are tiaras she wore that we know nothing about.  It doesn’t include tiaras that she bought for the purpose of giving it to someone else like the Queen Mother’s Turquoise Tiara.  Technically she would have owned it for a while but it was never really intended to be hers.  Click on the name of each tiara for more information.

Descendants of King George VI

Duchess of Teck’s Hoop Necklace Tiara - David Armstrong-Jones, Earl of Snowdon

Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia’s Vladimir Pearl Drop Tiara - QEII

King George IV’s Diamond Diadem - QEII

Queen Adelaide’s Hanover Fringe Tiara - QEII

Queen Alexandra’s Kokoshnik Tiara - QEII

Queen Mary’s Fringe Tiara - QEII

Queen Mary’s Girls of Great Britain & Ireland Tiara - QEII

Queen Victoria’s Oriental Circlet - QEII

Duchess of Teck’s Crescent Tiara - QEII but loaned to the Duchess of Cornwall

Queen Mary’s Delhi Durbar Tiara - QEII but loaned to the Duchess of Cornwall

Queen Mary’s Diamond Bandeau Tiara - QEII but loaned to the Duchess of Sussex

Queen Mary’s Lovers Knot Tiara - QEII but loaned to the Duchess of Cambridge

Queen Mary’s Diamond Lozenge Tiara - probably QEII, last seen on Princess Margaret

Queen Mary’s Sapphire Bandeau Tiara - probably QEII, last seen on Princess Margaret

Descendants of Princess Mary, Princess Royal, Countess of Harewood

Queen Victoria’s Sapphire Coronet - V&A Museum - the accompanying jewelry was sold at an earlier time and their whereabouts are unknown

Queen Mary’s Honeysuckle Bandeau - sold

Queen Mary’s Laurel Bandeau - unknown 

Descendants of Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester

Duchess of Teck’s Turquoise Parure Tiara - Duchess of Gloucester

Queen Mary’s Honeysuckle Tiara - Duchess of Gloucester

Queen Mary’s Iveagh Tiara - Duchess of Gloucester

Descendants of Prince George, Duke of Kent

Duchess of Cambridge’s Sapphire Parure Tiara - given to the Kents and later sold - this would have been one of the oldest parures belonging to the royal family and I’m very bitter that it was given to the Kents and that most of the parure has been sold

Duchess of Cambridge’s Sapphire Parure Necklace Tiara - made out of the necklace of the above parure after the tiara was sold, as far as I know it still belongs to the Duke and Duchess of Kent

Queen Mary’s (other) Diamond Bandeau Tiara - given to the Kents and used to create the Kent Pearl & Diamond Fringe Tiara

Other

Queen Mary’s Amethyst Tiara - lost in the wind

Queen Mary’s County of Surrey Tiara - broken up to create other tiaras

Queen Mary’s Diamond Loop Tiara - broken up to create other tiaras

Queen Mary’s Ladies of England Tiara - broken up to create other tiaras

Queen Mary’s Wedding Tiara - broken up to create other tiaras

Queen Victoria’s Regal Circlet - broken up to create Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother’s consort crown

Queen Mary’s Westminster Necklace Tiara - unknown

Queen Mary’s Honeysuckle Aigrette - unknown

Queen Mary’s Feather Aigrette - unknown

Queen Mary’s Ruby Aigrette - unknown

Queen Mary’s Forget Me Not Aigrette - unknown

Queen Mary’s Small Diamond Tiara - unknown

[tiaramania]

I've never heard of Queen Mary's Honeysuckle Tiara. Could you give us a history on it? Is it still in the Royal Family?

Queen Mary had it created from diamonds from the County of Surrey Tiara and the Ladies of England Tiara which were both wedding presents.  She gave it to Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, and the current Duchess of Gloucester still wears it today.  It’s an extremely well balanced tiara and I love the way it curves down the side of the wearers head.  Queen Mary had such a good eye for things like that.  Also it can be worn with several different center elements.  You can read more about the tiara here.

[tiaramania]

I don't know how the Royal Family does its finances, but why couldn't Prince Charles give both his daughters-in-law their own tiaras? I think he's not hurting. Also, why couldn't the Queen hint to the noble ladies all over the UK for them to band together and buy something as a wedding gift?

I’m not very knowledgeable about the British royal family’s finances either but the problem is not whether Prince Charles could afford to buy them tiaras.  It’s because it would be a public relations disaster if it was found out that he spent that much money on something seen as frivolous.  The same problem would happen if people started a collection to buy them tiaras.  There would be a million articles about how that money could be better spent, which is true.  In the past it was common to take up these kind of collections.  Queen Mary received three tiaras (Girls of Great Britain & Ireland Tiara, County of Surrey Tiara, and  Ladies of England Tiara) along with other jewels this way.  Nowadays, the collections are set up to benefit charitable causes which is good thing even if it means we see less tiaras.