It also shows that she has carefully selected her clothes to illustrate her loyalty to the King, who has wanted to bring his passion for nature and sustainability to the fore and to dial back the monarchy’s historic taste for dazzling jewellery. The Princess of Wales is already bedecked in jewels – wearing the the three-strand George VI festoon necklace and the late Princess Diana’s diamond and pearl-drop earrings – and a headpiece such as this one softens her overall look. Against her brunette hair, the silver bullion and threadwork glows – and this feels very far from a traditional flower crown. “By not following suit, it is certainly a major departure from what we were expecting.”Īnd yet the result is rather wonderful. “In 1963, Queen Elizabeth, the late Queen Mother, Princess Margaret and all the other ladies in the royal box were in diamond tiaras with no hard stones,” says jewellery expert Vincent Meylan. Unsurprisingly, jewellery watchers have been concerned the headpiece would be more festival than fabulous, and a wasted opportunity given how rarely coronations take place. The Royal Order of the Crown and Cross of Hawai'i is the first royal order of the kingdom and was established by King Kauikeaouli, styled Kamehameha III of the Kamehameha Dynasty, Royal House of Keoua Nui, July, 1848 on the advice of his Minister of Foreign Relations, the Honorable Robert Chrichton Wyllie, to install a peerage for the sovereign. It is certainly a point of difference to the 1953 coronation, where all royal women wore tiaras. For the Coronation, she has teamed up with Alexander McQueen – the brand that made the Princess of Wales and Princess Charlotte’s dresses – to create headpieces that both complement their gowns and references King Charles’ love of nature. Princess Charlotte is wearing a simpler version of her mother’s headpiece.īritish milliner Jess Collett has been working in the industry for 25 years designing headpieces for Ascot, summer weddings and formal occasions. The Princess of Wales's hair has been styled in a meticulous updo, and the leaf-like design is pinned across her head in thick rows of glowing silver foliage. The answer lies somewhere between the two: a beautiful Jess Collett x Alexander McQueen headpiece made with silver bullion, crystal and silver threadwork in three-dimensional embroidery. To tiara or not to tiara…? Speculation has been rife for days as to whether the Princess of Wales would break with tradition and wear flowers in her hair or whether she would opt for a dazzling array of diamonds like her forebears.
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