Thursday, October 22, 2009

Majestic Suites Stories

crown jewels: the cameos

Joséphine moglie del re di Svezia Oscar I con il diadema di cammei ereditato dalla nonna Imperatrice dei Francesi

Premessa necessaria affinché non si dica che "non sto sulla notizia", il che facendo il lavoro che faccio, sarebbe un'assurdità. In questi giorni in Italia ed in special modo in Rome there is a concentration of royal (royal but really, why rulers seriously) even as the marriage of Charles and Diana. Last week it appeared His Serene Highness Prince Albert of Monaco for the opening of the exhibition devoted to his beloved mother and unforgotten. Around the eternal city, flash, ran after the photographers, the usual scuffles with the guards, everything normal. The only regret the lack of "girlfriend" that Charlene is performed periodically before being put back into mothballs until further notice. Following the king and queen of Jordan, Rania Abdullah and the beautiful. And as the brave son of King Hussein was involved in a series of political meetings and institutional, Rania has dedicated itself to the culture (visit the Galleria Borghese) and shopping, proving once again that it can be charming and rich, but at the same time kind and helpful people. Finally arrived in Venice yesterday the Emir of Qatar and his wife the beautiful Sheika Mozah, to sign an economic agreement. I chose not to devote to these events a specific post, but here are a few of you in the picture is always knowledgeable and current, the site Noblesses et Royauiées: Alberto ( here ), Abdallah and Rania ( here and also here), the leaders with President Napolitano ( here, she is dressed in Armani) and finally with the Emir of Qatar Ladies ( here ). Having said that we come to the history of the title and pictures.

Margaret of Connaught, wife of Crown Prince Gustav Adolf of Sweden
The casket of the Queen of Sweden is one of Europe's most spectacular and collects memories of many queens, many kingdoms and many loves. First
that, over evil, between Marseille Désirée Clary young artillery officer and a home run, which le preferisce un'aristocratica molto mondana, bellissima e molto ben introdotta nella brillante società post rivoluzione francese. Lei si consola con un altro soldato, Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte che sarà maresciallo dell’Impero, eroe di tante battaglie e poi re di Svezia, scelto dall’ultimo sovrano della dinastia Wasa priva di eredi diretti. Nel frattempo il fidanzato fedifrago, ovvero Napoleone Bonaparte, diventa Primo Console, conquista l'Europa, si proclama imperatore dei francesi, viene sconfitto a Waterloo e finisce i suoi giorni nella sperduta isola di Sant’Elena. Joséphine de Beauharnais, la donna che aveva strappato Napoleone a Désirée, viene abbandonata a sua volta e muore nel 1814, ma lascia due figli di un previous marriage, Eugene and Hortense. Eugene, beloved stepfather who adopted it and it does Viceroy of Italy (but the Congress of Vienna, the Duke of Leutchemberg declasserà single), leads to the altar the Princess Augusta Amalia of Bavaria and was born from this marriage, among others, Josephine who married in 1823, Crown Prince of Sweden, Oscar, only son, incidentally, to become Désirée, although a little reluctantly (he hates the cold and loves the social life of Paris) Queen of Sweden.


Princess Ingrid of Sweden (daughter of Margaret), later Queen of Denmark

The sovereign has forgotten the past or otherwise decide to fly, and welcomes daughter fondly as the granddaughter of the old rival. Thanks to this marriage today in the veins of the Swedish kings (and even those of kings and queens of Norway, Denmark, Belgium and Luxembourg) runs the blood of the two largest and most famous love affairs of the Emperor. And the memory of those passions is passed through the precious stones.
The dowry of the young Josephine includes in fact, as is customary at the time, a series of beautiful jewelry, some of which come directly from the chest of the former Empress of the French. The set of cameos and pearls, which consists of a tiara with attached earrings, necklace and brooch is almost certainly the created in 1809 by the Parisian jeweler Nitot (ancestor of Chaumet) for the Empress, paternal grandmother of the bride. The tiara is a particularly unusual object and elegant, consisting of a large number of cameos, surrounded by small pearls, and interspersed with a delicate floral design made of yellow gold. Between the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries the ancient greek-roman and the rage over the clothes in the Empire style became very fashionable jewelry jewelry reminiscent of the classical period, including just the cameos. Napoleon in particular has a real passion for the cameos (which he "discovered" during the Italian campaign of 1796) and even promotes a school in Paris "glyptics" soon became famous for the quality of items produced. Immediately cameos vengonmo also used by jewelers to create any great sort of ornament, sometimes fitted with simple mountings, in other cases surrounded by a circle of beads, just as in the Swedish parure.

Princesses Brigitta of Sweden and Désirée

the death of Queen Josephine joys are divided among the children and the cameo parure is assigned to Prince Eugene, but these often failing to pay the heirs various princesses and decides to offer it as a gift to Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, wife of the great-grandson Prince Gustav Adolf, and mother of the sovereign. Two sisters of King Carl XVI Gustaf, Brigitte and Desiree take the crown on the day of their wedding, but the head of Silvia Sommerlath that tiara becomes really famous cameos. The former German-Brazilian-born hostess chooses to wear it on June 19, 1976 when he marries King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden becoming queen. Four years have passed by the chance meeting at the Olympics in Monaco, but the couple had to wait for the death of Gustaf VI Adolf, the king's grandfather and predecessor. The old monarch, modern in some aspects (well-educated man and notoriously "liberal", see here ), however, was extremely conservative about the wedding gifts and his nephew and heir never would have allowed the union with a girl of middle-class origins.


The tiara gives cameos especially the dark and beautiful Sylvia, a beautiful bride as well as "Dancing Queen". The result, of course with the royal wedding, the next episode




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