This one became a rabbit hole, folks. First, you start off by choosing a simple picture labeled “Queen Alexandra’s Amethyst Tiara.” Then you dig around to see where that tiara is now. Then you find some sources that say this is the same tiara worn by Queen Alexandra in the photo below, taken in 1889. Then you find other sources …

The Leeds Cartier tiara belonged to Nancy Leeds, a regular girl from Ohio who became a princess. Yes, folks, dreams really do come true. But it gets even better…because she ordered this tiara from Cartier in 1913, before marrying a prince. No one gave it to her as a wedding present and she didn’t inherit it. She bought it because …

The Aosta knots and stars tiara was created for Princess Hélène of Orléans when she married the Duke of Aosta, nephew of the king of Italy. The king and queen of Italy gave her the tiara as a wedding present in 1895. Maybe this tiara helped cheer her up—after all, she’d been in love with the Duke of Clarence (Edward …

Queen Victoria’s strawberry leaf tiara looks a bit different today than it did when Prince Albert designed it for her. Back then, the middle row of rectangular stones was actually the bottom of the tiara – and it contained rubies, not diamonds. And that’s not all. Each of the strawberry leaves and diamond points on top also had a ruby. …

The Donnersmarck tiara was made in about 1900 by the French royal jeweler Chaumet, with more than 500 carats of detachable Columbian emeralds. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Chaumet (@chaumetofficial) on Jul 28, 2019 at 5:00am PDT For awhile, there was speculation about where those emeralds came from. They were drilled and polished in India during …