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MARRIAGES are made in heaven, except for royal unions. These require intervention by elders. In June 1509, Prince Harry ...
Queen Mary's crown. PA Images via Getty. Similarly, the crowns of both Queen Alexandra and Queen Mary — which both held the Koh-i-Nûr diamond for their coronations in 1902 and 1911, ...
Queen Alexandra circa 1901. Hulton Archive/Getty Images After the death of her beloved husband, Prince Albert, Queen Victoria requested a lightweight crown that she could wear over her mourning ...
Queen Mary, consort of King George V, commissioned Garrard & Co. to craft the crown for her and her husband’s 1911 coronation, and the design draws inspiration from Queen Alexandra’s Crown of ...
It was later set in the Crown of Queen Alexandra and in turn was transferred to the Crown of Queen Mary in 1911. In 1937, ...
Catalogue of an exhibition of work by modern Danish artists : under the patronage of H.M. Queen Alexandra and H.R.H. The Crown Prince of Denmark, April 13 to July 7th, 1912 Smithsonian Libraries and ...
Some observers had speculated that Camilla would be crowned with the crown made for Queen Elizabeth, the queen mother, in 1937, which had the Koh-i-noor diamond as its centerpiece.