#the Napoleonic amethyst tiara

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Royal Tiara Challenge 2024

Day 13 - Favorite Amethyst Tiara

The Napoleonic Amethyst Tiara

Hands down, the Swedish Napoleonic amethyst tiara is the most beautiful amethyst tiara in my opinion.

The family that currently sits on the Swedish throne has genealogical ties to Swedish kings from centuries ago, but they’re more immediately descended from French nobility. Because of this, the family’s jewel coffers are full of trinkets with connections to the French imperial court of Napoleon Bonaparte. The [tiara] from the family’s amethyst parure, is just such a piece.

The tiara actually didn’t start out as a tiara at all; in fact, it’s only been a tiara for a few decades. Instead, the piece was original a necklace made of diamonds surrounding fifteen large amethysts. The demi-parure also included drop earrings, two bracelets, and a devant de corsage. The dark purple amethysts are set in gold, while the diamonds are set in silver. Princess Christina wearing the tiara in its original state as a necklace in 1968:

The original owner of the jewels is said to have been Joséphine de Beauharnais, the first wife of Napoleon Bonaparte. Lots of royal jewels are said to have belonged to the empress, but this suite apparently actually did. Joséphine gave the amethyst parure to her daughter-in-law, Princess Augusta of Bavaria, who had married Eugène de Beauharnais in 1806. (Augusta’s father, King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria, later made the couple the Duke and Duchess of Leuchtenberg.) In turn, Augusta passed the suite along to her own daughter, Joséphine of Leuchtenberg, when she married the future King Oscar I of Sweden and Norway in 1823. - the court jeweller.com

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Through the Years → Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden (670/∞)

11 October 2022 | Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden during the state banquet at the first day of the Dutch State visit to Sweden in Stockholm, Sweden. (Photo by Patrick van Katwijk/Getty Images)

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TIARA ALERT: Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden wore the Napoleonic Amethyst Tiara for the Nobel Prize ceremony at Stockholm Concert Hall and banquet at Stockholm City Hall on 10 December 2023.

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Royal Tiara Challenge 2024: Favourite Swedish Tiara 👑

the Napoleonic Amethyst tiara

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Royal Tiara Challenge 2024: Favourite Amethyst Tiara

Napoleonic Amethyst Tiara

One of only 4 amethyst tiaras currently owned (or given exclusive access to) by a Royal Family, this Swedish one is my favourite. The tiara was first owned by Empress Josephine of France, it then made its way to Bavaria before ultimately ending up in Sweden where it has been since 1823. It was last worn in December 2023 by Crown Princess Victoria for the Nobel Ceremony.

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Royal Tiara Challenge 2024: {13/31} -> Favourite Amethyst Tiara: The Napoleonic Amethyst Parure Tiara.

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DAY 13 - Favourite Amethyst Tiara

THE NAPOLEONIC AMETHYST PARURE TIARA

The treasured amethysts found their way to Sweden upon Joséphine's marriage to the future King Oscar I in 1823. It was not until the reign of the current Queen Consort, Silvia, that the jewellery was redesigned into the transformable tiara we see today.

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Queen Silvia of Sweden wearing the Napoleonic Amethyst Tiara for the Nobel Prize award ceremony which takes place at the Stockholm Concert Hall, Sweden | December 10, 2022

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Royal Tiara Challenge: Day 13

Favorite Amethyst Tiara: The Napoleonic Amethyst Parure Tiara

There are quite a few things I actually don't like about this necklace-turned-tiara - the frame is almost always visible, it looks like it's floating over the head, and placement is tricky without making the head look flat - but those amethysts are just LUSCIOUS.

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Royal Tiara Highlights: Swedish Amethyst Tiara

This tiara is apart of a set that includes drop earrings, two bracelets, and a devant de corsage and it was initially a necklace made of diamonds surrounding fitfteen large amethysts. The dark purple amethysts are set in gold, while the diamonds are set in silver. 

The original owner of the set is believed to be Empress Joséphine of France, the first wife of Napoleon Bonaparte. Joséphine gave the parure to her daughter-in-law, Princess Augusta of Bavaria who then passed it on to her own daughter, Joséphine of Leuchtenberg, when she married the future King Oscar I of Sweden and Norway in 1823. The jewels have been in the Swedish Royal Vault ever since.

When Queen Silvia married King Carl XVI Gustaf in 1976, she realized the set needed a tiara. Since the original necklace was too heavy and uncomfortable to wear, Silvia decided to turn it into a tiara. She also altered the parure bracelets so they could be worn as necklace; all these alterations are not permanent and the set can still be worn in its original form. 

via The Court Jeweller 

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This is a based on the using food as decoration ask i sent earlier. You said that you tried to use food as an offering the dead and it made me wonder if in traditional weddings would they make offerings to the dead to honor their ancestors, ie asking for them to bless their marriage.

oooolala, I love this ask! Thank you!

Unfortunately, that is not the case for weddings. Basically - without spoiling the two events currently in the Queue or drafts - The Ionian Union has built kind of its own religion focused on, essentially, ancestor worship and continual mourning, and the religion only really applies to members of the Royal Family. This is because members of the Royal Family are not entitled to publicly practice religion, though they still want to reep the benefits of the frivolity. It is similar to Kate Middleton dressing to and evoking the likeness of Princess Di once a month for the last decade of her marriage. Dramatic, unnessasary, the only way to stay relevant, etcetc. Anyways- The literal reason that offerings are given at funerals is for a person to move on with (perishable) goods, think viking era funeral pyre. That is what Ionians are all about: the drama. After, the persons ashes are spread around the ancestral gardens (which have appeared before: see the jubilee or raheem and viola's engagement posts) to join with their loved ones for all eternity. Weddings- like funerals, developed from the lack of religion, though they're more fun, in my opinion. Ancestors are typically left to the side for the day, because for once ! the Rodchesters can celebrate ! Instead, wedding traditions include: being hosted in the evening (all the fem queens get a tiara moment!), no white gowns for the bride (with the acception of lorri, rip), wearing the same damn tiara your gran wore (napoleonic amethyst parure ftw), and not choosing your wedding venue (govt buildings only). If it makes anyone happy to know though, I was decorating the Grand Throne Room yesterday for a... *ahem* important wedding... and I included the same marigolds used in [redacted]'s funeral in [redacted]'s wedding decor as sort of a nod.

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TIARA ALERT: Queen Silvia of Sweden wore Napoleonic Amethyst Tiara for the Nobel Prize Ceremony at Stockholm Concert Hall on 10 December 2022.

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The Napoleonic Amethyst Parure https://royalwatcherblog.com/2017/04/30/swedish-royal-tiaras/#6

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Saturday Tiara!!

Hi everyone and Welcome to another Tiara Saturday!!

This week release will be a Diamond and amethyst kokoshnik Tiara, an amazing piece from circa 1808, is called the ‘Otrante’ tiara, a dukedom given under Napoleon to his Minister of Police, Joseph Fouche. As with the Bernadotte family, the Otrante family moved to Sweden, and this tiara was last seen worn by Countess Birgitta d'Otrante at the wedding of Princess Benedikte of Denmark in 1968. (Information from @tiarascrowns)

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