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The baby of the Cullinan collection is a relatively teeny, tiny pear-shaped solitaire weighing a mere 4.39 carats, which Queen Mary had set in a ring—sightings of the diamond have been rare. You ...
Cullinan V is an 18.8-carat (3.76 g) heart-shaped diamond set in the centre of a platinum brooch that formed a part of the stomacher made for Queen Mary to wear at the Delhi Durbar in 1911. The brooch was designed to show off Cullinan V and is pavé-set with a border of smaller diamonds.
Queen Camilla was crowned using Queen Mary's Crown at her coronation in May 2023. [7] Prior to the coronation the crown was partially altered. Alterations included re-setting the crown with the original Cullinan III and IV diamonds as well as adding the Cullinan V diamond as a tribute to Camilla's mother-in-law, Elizabeth II , who wore the ...
Queen Camilla was crowned using Queen Mary's Crown at her coronation with Charles III on 6 May 2023. [85] Alterations included re-setting the crown with the original Cullinan diamonds and removing four of its eight half-arches. The Cullinan V brooch replaced the Koh-i-Noor. [118]
Meanwhile, the Cullinan III and IV were set in a brooch for Queen Mary, later worn by Queen Elizabeth. (She memorably wore the luxurious brooch while celebrating her Diamond Jubilee in 2012).
It was created for King Charles II but received a major update in 1910 under the reign of King George V when the largest diamond cut from the Cullinan diamond, known as the Great star of Africa ...
In 1913, Queen Mary asked Garrard & Co. to make a copy of a tiara owned by her grandmother, Princess Augusta of Hesse-Kassel, using Queen Mary's own diamonds and pearls. French in its neo-classical design, the tiara has 19 oriental pearls suspended from lover's knot bows each centered with a large brilliant.
The crown was originally made for the 1911 coronation of Queen Mary, the consort of King George V. ... "The Cullinan Diamond must be returned to South Africa with immediate effect," activist ...