У меня есть текст, нуждающийся в переработке. Он составлен из отрывков из разных источников. Мне нужно, чтобы ты переработал материал, сделал его более структурированным, последовательным, чтобы повествование велось последовательно, не сбивало с толку слушателя и легко воспринималось. Можно менять абзацы местами, в зависимости от смысла. Нужен пересказ своими словами. Текст должен быть написан на формальном английском языке. По возможности постарайся не сокращать текущий объем “Queen Mary of Denmark dazzled in her first appearance wearing the prestigious Pearl Poiré tiara during a gala dinner at Oslo’s Royal Palace.
Her Majestic ensemble featured the historic tiara along with a revamped Birgit Hallstein dress, showcasing elegance and royalty.
This is one of my favorite tiaras from the Danish Royal Family. I must confess, I eagerly anticipated Queen Mary’s appearance in this remarkable tiara, which has a rich history.
Firstly, this tiara is closely linked to preceding Queens of Denmark.
Denmark is perhaps one of the most tiara-rich countries in Europe, but even among their large cache of sparklers, a few tiaras stand out as particularly historically important. One of these, the Pearl Poiré Tiara, highlights the maternal heritage of the country’s monarch.
The Pearl Poire Tiara takes its name from the pear-shaped pearls that are suspended from the jewel’s arched diamond-set silver frame. (La poire is French for pear, and the Danes simply call this one the “Perlepoire Diadem.”) The tiara is thought to have been made in Berlin around the year 1825.
In May 1825, 199 years ago this month, 17-year-old Princess Louise of Prussia married her first cousin, 28-year-old Prince Frederick of the Netherlands. Louise’s father, King Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia, and Frederick’s mother, Princess Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, were siblings. They had planned a marriage for their children for years.
As a wedding present, most people believe, King Friedrich Wilhelm offered a grand tiara to his daughter. The piece also came with a matching brooch, featuring five large pearl pendants. Princess Louise wears the valuable suite of jewelry with a pearl necklace. She kept the jewels in her collection until her death in 1870.
An identical Tiara and Brooch were ordered by the King five years later when Prince Frederik’s sister, Princess Marianne, married his son, Prince Albert of Prussia. According to Jensen, Marianne’s pearl tiara was inherited by her daughter, Princess Alexandrine, who married Duke Wilhelm of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Alexandrine’s daughter, Charlotte, is the last known owner of the twin tiara; its whereabouts today are apparently a mystery. however, the second tiara’s current whereabouts are unknown.
The Pearl Poiré Tiara and the Pearl Poiré Brooch were worn by Princess Louise for a Portrait painted by Jean-Baptiste Van der Hulst in 1836 with her daughter, Princess Louise, who became the Queen of Sweden and Norway. Queen Louise was given the Pearl Poiré Brooch as a wedding gift, but she didn’t inherit the Tiara until Princess Louise’s death in 1870, though Queen Louise herself passed away just a few months later.
In 1849, Prince Frederick and Princess Louise helped to arrange a marriage between their eldest daughter, Princess Louise, and Crown Prince Charles of Sweden. It wasn’t a happy marriage. Louise was very much in love with Charles, but he reportedly didn’t find her attractive and treated her with disdain and neglect. But in 1859, when his father died, the couple became King Charles XV and Queen Louise of Sweden and Norway. They managed to have two children, but only one, Princess Lovisa, lived to adulthood.
Meanwhile, back in the Netherlands, Princess Louise became ill. In late 1870, Queen Louise traveled to be with her mother on her deathbed. Princess Louise died in December, and in her will, she left the Pearl Poiré Tiara to Queen Louise. But a bit of very bad timing intervened. Queen Louise made her way back to Stockholm, but not long after she returned, she caught pneumonia. Before the contents of her mother’s estate could be distributed, Queen Louise died, too. She never got to wear the pearl tiara, but she does appear to be wearing the matching brooch from her mother’s collection in the portrait above.
Appropriately, the tiara was subsequently given to Queen Louise’s only daughter, Princess Lovisa. Even though Lovisa was the only living child of King Charles XV, the constitution in Sweden at the time prevented her from inheriting her father’s throne. Instead, she had agreed in 1869 to a marriage with Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark. The tiara traveled with Crown Princess Lovisa to Copenhagen, and it has been in Danish hands ever since.
Frederik and Lovisa became Denmark’s king and queen in 1906. In Lovisa’s hands, the tiara became a part of a married parure, matched up with other similar pieces of pearl and diamond jewelry to make a set. A large diamond brooch with five pearl pendants had been made to match the tiara at the time of its original creation, and Lovisa inherited the brooch along with the tiara. She began wearing both pieces with a pearl and diamond necklace that she had received as a wedding gift from the Khedive of Egypt.
Two pearl pendants that were originally part of that necklace were also later turned into earrings. One more piece was also added to this “parure”–a pearl and diamond cluster brooch, which was originally the clasp of an elaborate pearl necklace. This necklace had been Lovisa’s wedding gift from Tsar Alexander III of Russia and his wife, Maria Feodorovna (born Princess Dagmar of Denmark; she was a sister of Lovisa’s husband, Frederik).
The current version of the (now) Danish tiara wandered through various Scandinavian royal owners before it found its home in Denmark.
The Pearl Poiré Tiara and the Pearl Poiré Brooch were inherited by her only daughter, the then Crown Princess Lovisa, who had brought so many jewels to Denmark that “if it was all laid out on a card table, you could not see the fabric underneath”.
The tiara became a treasured reminder of two generations of Queen Lovisa of Denmark’s family. She often paired the tiara and brooch with another jewel from her personal collection that also featured pear-shaped pearls in its design: a necklace given to her as a wedding present in 1869 by the Khedive of Egypt. Later, two of the pendants from that necklace would be fashioned into earrings, and the entire set–tiara, brooch, necklace, and earrings–is now treated as a married parure.
The Crown Princess notably wore the pieces together as a ‘married’ Parure for the Wedding of her son, Prince Carl of Denmark later King of Norway, to his cousin, Princess Maud of Wales, in 1896.
When it came time for her to make a will, Queen Lovisa decided to designate the Pearl Poire Parure as a special set for the use of future generations of the Danish royal family. She willed the jewels to the Danish Royal Property Trust, which means that they now pass from monarch to monarch, primarily for the use of the Queen of Denmark.
The next wearer of the Pearl Poiré Tiara and the Khedive of Egypt Parure was Queen Alexandrine, who notably wore the Parure for an Official Portrait and at the Wedding Ball of her son, Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark, to Princess Ingrid of Sweden at the Royal Palace of Stockholm in 1935, along with her Diamond Meander.
After the passing of Queen Alexandrine’s husband, King Christian X, in 1947, the pearls were handed over to the new Queen Ingrid of Denmark. Above, she wears the pearls for the wedding of Princess Ragnhild of Norway, King Harald’s sister, in May 1953.
Queen Ingrid wore the Pearl Poiré Tiara usually with the Khedive of Egypt Parure, like for for the Danish State Banquet at the Royal Palace of Stockholm in 1947, a State Visit to France in 1950, the Wedding of Princess Ragnhild of Norway in 1953, and a Parliament Banquet at Christiansborg Palace in 1958.
For more important occasions, Queen Ingrid often wore the Pearl Poiré Tiara with the Danish Crown Diamond Parure, like for the Swedish State Visit to Denmark in 1952, the Dutch State Visit to Denmark in 1953, the British State Visit to Denmark in 1957, and Crown Princess Margrethe’s 18th Birthday Banquet in 1958.
Before Queen Ingrid acquired the Floral Aigrette Tiara, the Pearl Poiré Tiara and the Danish Ruby Parure were her only two options for events outside of Denmark, as at the Danish Emerald Parure could not leave the country. The Pearl Poiré Tiara and the Khedive of Egypt Parure were notably worn on a State Visit to Norway in 1960, a visit to the Vatican and a State Visit to Italy in 1964, a State Visit to France in 1965, a State Visit to Belgium in 1968, and the Wedding of King Harald of Norway in 1968.
Queen Ingrid’s final appearance in the Pearl Poiré Tiara and the Khedive of Egypt Parure came at the spectacular Banquet hosted by the Shah of Iran and Empress Farah celebrating the 2500th Anniversary of the Persian Empire at Persepolis in October 1971, just a few months before the death of King Frederick IX.
Upon the accession of Queen Margrethe in 1972, Pearl Poiré Tiara, the Khedive of Egypt Parure, and the Pearl Poiré Brooch passed into the possession of the new Queen who wore them for her First Official Portraits taken just weeks after her father’s death.
As Queen Margrethe’s largest Tiara upon the time of her accession, and one of only two that she could take abroad, the Pearl Poiré Tiara was worn on all of her initial Foreign Visits.
She chose the pearls for some of the most important moments of her reign. In January 2024, after she announced her forthcoming abdication, she wore the suite for a final time during the annual New Year’s Levee at Amalienborg.
Now, the pearls have been placed at the disposal of Margrethe’s daughter-in-law, Queen Mary of Denmark.
Notably, twenty years ago at the same day, Mary Elizabeth Donaldson arrived at Copenhagen’s cathedral for her wedding to the Crown Prince of Denmark. On that day, Mary made her debut in a petite diamond tiara given to her by her parents-in-law, Queen Margrethe II and Prince Henrik. Now, exactly two decades later, Queen Mary of Denmark has made her debut in another tiara: one with major ties to the Queens of Denmark who preceded her.
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