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treasures of this sort of any of the
nobility of Europe.
For her own part, the Queen of
England loves pearls best of all gems,
and her robes of state are to be loop
ed and fastened with ropes of pearls.
These are her chief pride and pleas
ure, because some of them are said
to have belonged to Mary, Queen of
Scotland. They were given her by
her husband, King Francis, who had
they from his mother, Catharine de
Medici. When Mary got into trouble
and the hands of Queen Elizabeth,
Catharine was eager to get the pearls,
but Elizabeth liked pearls, too
and secured them for pal
try price. There is no doubling their
size and splendor, for in her portrait,
the Queen of James l wears some of
them, and one, pinned in her hair,
looks about the size of sickle pear
Beside the pearls, Queen Alexandra
will wear the Kohinoor set in her
crown, and the emerald given Queen
Victoria by the Gar of Russia and
amid the priceless lace that is to form
the front of her frock will appear all
the Hannovarian diamonds set in one
dazzling stomacher.
The finest of the jewels collected by
the four Georges and William w have
been put into her crown, which is to be
made only of these stones, with the
kohinoor in the center. The remain
der are really sufficiently abundant to
serve as spangles for her whole cos
tune. The lace she is to use is from
the collection of English royalty.
Queen Victoria left to her all Queen
Anne's lace and that of King William
III, for the latter, though a war lord
and very masculine person., loved lace
like woman and spent as much as
twelve thousand dollars a year on the
laces of Italy and Belgium.
King Edwards best jewel belongs in
his crown, and is the biggest ruby on
record. 1t was given to Edward, the
Black Prince, by King Pedro of Cas-
tile. In the crown, also, is the ia
nous tear-shaped diamonds which
Anne Boleyn received from Francis
of France. In Anne's day it was worth
fifteen thousand crowns, and to-day 1t
is priceless
Many of the nobility of England,
however, have collections of precious
stones that equal, if not surpass, the
crown jewels, and at the coronation
the best in their caskets will come
forth. The Duchess of Bedford owns
the biggest bronze diamond in the
world this is being set at present in
tiara. The Duke of Hamilton, who
can't afford to keep the acres of his
paternal roof-tree in repair, and who
consequently seeks, as a rule, safer and
more comfortable shelter elsewhere,
owns diamonds of such size and such
numbers that the wife who he has
lately married could actually afford to
have an entire high neck and long
sleeved waist covered with them.
used to attend the opera with a four
inch wide belt of diamonds about her
ample waist, and every diamond in the
belt was fit to set as a solitaire.
The Duchess of Sutherland will prob
ably take the cake for her opals. Her
most treasured stone was originally
the property of the Empress Josephine,
and was known, because of its gor-
geous fire, as the Burning of Troy
Nobody knows just how Ma
poleon got this jewel, but the
story runs that he gave it to
his wife, who dated all his and
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