OK, it's not actually a state event but it's as regular in the royal calendar as any official visit or gala banquet. Sweden's royals have celebrated the Nobel Prize winners at a glittering ceremony in Stockholm and packed in all the tiara surprises while they were at it. Apart from Queen Silvia. But when you've got access to some of the biggest and best jewels in Europe, who needs surprises? Settle back and enjoy some pre-Christmas sparkle with this look at the tiaras that came out to dazzle at the 2017 Nobel Prize Ceremony.
We're not done with the
surprises yet. Princess Sofia wore her wedding tiara but made us all sit up and
look by swapping the emeralds that famously top it with pearls. Yes, pearls.
We'd just seen this tiara without its green stones when Sofia removed them for
a gala dinner a few weeks ago but now she's gone full on royal with us by
popping another stone in there altogether.
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The tiara features
diamonds shaped like trees and in this incarnation it seems to have some rather
delicate pearl drops attached intermittently along the top. Swapping emeralds
for pearls is a popular royal trick with tiaras in both the modern British and Dutch
collections on constant stand by for the move, and Sofia's made a rather nifty
addition to that very exclusive club. Except the tree motif keeps it very
modern looking. A sparkling royal twist on the traditional.
Princess Madeleine,
meanwhile, chose one of the Swedish Royal Family's most famous and historic
tiaras. It's a Swedish regal staple, just not on Madeleine. The princess wore
the Amethyst tiara which never fails to wow. And though we've seen it on
Madeleine before, it was a surprise as her Nobel prize pick.
The stones in this
sparkler are said to have originated with the Empress Josephine, the great love
of Napoleon, and they came to Sweden with her granddaughter who was named in
her honour. That Josephine married the future King Oscar I of Sweden, changed
her name to Josefina and sparkled in her amethysts. At that time, they were
actually a necklace but Madeleine's mother, Silvia, turned them into a tiara
and not long afterwards gave her younger daugther the middle name of Josephine
so it's rather appropriate that this princess wore this tiara to the Nobel
ceremony.
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We've got an honourable
nod too for Princess Christina who kept the Napoleonic theme going. King Carl
XVI Gustaf's big sister wore the cut steel bandeau belonging to her royal house
and which is also believed to have first belonged to the Empress Josephine.
This sparkler, which contains no diamonds just steel which is polished and cut
to shine and then some, was also in Queen Josefina's suitcase when she arrived
in Sweden to take on her new royal role. It looks very modern on Christina and
above all, it's just great to see her looking so well after her diagnosis with
chronic lymphocytic leukaemia last year.
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