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Our Scandinavian Friends Jakob and Kaspar joined Saad (Editor of The Royal Watcher) and Sam (Editor of The Beau Monde) to discuss the 20 Royal and Noble Tiaras worn by Royal Ladies this month, for the Qatar State Visit to the United Kingdom, the Oman State Visit to Belgium, the Egyptian State Visit to Denmark, the Nobel Prize Ceremony, the Portuguese State Visit to The Netherlands, and the King’s Dinner for Nobel Laureates.
Link: https://royalwatcherblog.com/2024/12/27/royal-tiaras-of-december-2024/
Jakob is @Jakreg76 on Twitter and @187_cm on Instagram! Kaspar is @kalles_bijoux on Instagram! You can find us on social media as ‘The Royal Watcher’ [@saadsalman719 on Twitter and @the_royal_watcher on Instagram], as well as on royalwatcherblog.com, while Sam (https://thebeaumonde.org/) is @thebeaumonde.inc on Instagram.
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[Music] hello everyone and welcome back to a new
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episode of the ra waterer podcast where I'm delighted that we at Sam are joined by Jacob and Casper who are I think our
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most popular guests on this podcast and it's always a pleasure to talk to that hello hello and thank you for leing us
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join again it's so I mean this late in the year
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it's been quite a treat we've been getting all these Tiaras and Nobel prizes so we have lot to
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discuss today it's wonderful yes so I think let's start off
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with um on the next slide kind of something that was last month but I
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think can be included it was the Diplomatic reception in the UK at which Queen Camila deputed a new Tiara and
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something I think that was not the TR itself is surprise but just the fact
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that she wore it was a bigger surprise and yeah I mean she is for me she's
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Madam blue she loves blue and but I was very surprised to see I thought it
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belonged to the dutches of eding BR there's been quite a restructuring in the British vaults um this year and
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we've seen taras which have not been worn by other people just being shared around and I'm not sure that this one is
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the most kind of Regal Queen like Tiara but I think she has been a bit ill recently and this is not a bad
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no and it seems like she's very curious to to wear what she she wants to try to
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see what's will be her favorites exactly yeah but but I mean if
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she's been ill I don't know what to say is wearing this tiar uh uh a cry for
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help or something it's Dreadful I hate it's it's like going with amethyst or
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something it's the stone that gives her something you know the spiritual kind it's the ugliest
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Tiara in The Winds of Walts it's it's horrible yeah but what you do you know
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what it made me think of it's like the banad foundation and the Danish
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luomi do they have a a a a private fund or something where they can borrow some
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stuff because as we have only seen Sophie wearing it so we we like kind of thought
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it belonged to her but now suddenly the new Queen is wearing it and it's not the
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first choice as we all agree on yes all the rules are out the window I think and
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that's something I mean we kind of are in the no and we kind of accept changes but those people who've been making
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articles about this things oh how ts are born and distributed they're all kind of in chaos because everything that we knew
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about the British world wals is just kind of being turned around on his head so this is I think just the new rules
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and I there's a uh in the past the queen used to hand them out now I think
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they're just like they're in the vault whoever wants a TR just comes and gets it yeah and they probably have the big
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guns reserved for Camila no doubt but the rest Kate Sophie and Camila they're
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able to share around and but the crazy part is now that Camila she has the the
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gravel collection and she has the whatever the queen left she has the the
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biggest uh amount to wear oh yes and but the funny thing is that despite kind of
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the queen had a lot of big pieces but there's no kind of small Tiara really unless you go to like things like Kate
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and Megan wore on their wedding day and they're like smaller band get lost in her hair so this is probably like
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because of the height of this and weird frame this is probably why she even chose this in the first place it could
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be this is um the the parts of the of the tiara
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they were they're from Queen Victoria aren't they or something no that was actually something that was just kind of
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spread around social media that this was um aam Marines not just in the Tiara but in the necklace someone said that they
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were the U from The Tiara of Princess Alice of Greece that was dismantled to
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create the Queen's wedding gift and bracelet and that those aquam Marines and that Tiara were given to her by the Zar as the wedding gift but these are
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just all different cuts and shapes and and
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because I I seem to remember that that um people who uh well fans of Sophie as
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I am were were trying to to um make sense of her only having that oh I must
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be thinking about her wedding Tiara that did actually originate from Queen Victoria it's not her wedding Tiara no
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this is this wased in um Luxembourg in 2012 I
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believe
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let me ref let me rephrase the criticism of of
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The Tiara this is just ugly but Sophie's winning Tara is
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Dreadful yes okay we haven't seen a new P we saw a picture from the Diplomatic
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reception was it last year the year before but we haven't seen a new one with a close up details to see how it
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actually looks after they rebuild it or restructured it but it still oh come on
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when you see what they have in the walls it's not good enough for the Dutchess of all of edinb brgh the fact that she was
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the favorite daughter-in-law and got that thing well Sarah bought her own Tara which I think is actually one of the prettiest things the Queen ever
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bought yeah and which is actually not a high bar because the queen God bless her
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she had awful taste in jewelry
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but I think let's move on to a much nicer TR surprise with Camila debuting
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Queen Alexandra kosnik and she wore with the Queen's Fringe necklace that she wore for the
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first time in Germany last year but it's nice to see the both worn together and I believe they were last worn together in
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Bermuda in 2009 so it's been 15 years but I mean the world's changed and this
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is a lovely combination I love that Sierra I like that's a property
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compact so well yeah it's delicious as a Fring it it's it's I like that but it's
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also very different from the one she wears around the neck uh so it's it's nice it's it's very I think um it's a
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lovely look uh I don't mind the repeat of the Gown which it's kind of similar to what she weree last year but the
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thing that I have the biggest issue with is I think from an order perspective the fact that she wears that small star of
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the order of the Garter and it's so low that did belong to Queen Victoria but Queen Victoria was short and yeah um
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this does not work with Camila I mean she deserves a bigger star she is the
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queen yeah so what were your thoughts
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on but see that she she continues to wear the earrings that you got
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from yes this was from Charles and apparently from a Tiara that belonged to her great grandmother Alice Keele which
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was dismantled to ra these earrings and that necklace she wears a so because there is quite a lot of
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earrings to to wear but she she quite often choose to wear these and I believe
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that's because she doesn't have her ears pierced and there's probably just only a few that she goes to her favorites time and
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time again but overall I I think that she um I'm I'm not that disappointed to be
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honest I think she's uh she looks good very good of her age and she's staring
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and um she needs like a uh gowns with a heavy armor in front she has a beautiful
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yeah set of breast you know but it it's it has to be carried by orders and but
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she's very good in this uh heavy Very Yes hairs it very well but can somebody
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tells me why the her guest is not wearing a tiara the is it sulana of
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guari or yes the Sha I believe is her but um I mean the qataris they'
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bought so many Tiaras in the past few years like their museum is full of them
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and sha MOA she kind of didn't wear Tiaras either she wore lots of lovely gems but not Tiaras and her
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daughter-in-law kind of seems to be following the same example this would have been the perfect occasion to wear one and it's not like don't have because
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she has shown this beautiful jewelry at the coronation at and at the funeral and
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so I really thought something would come today yes I I was a bit disappointed
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that we didn't get but I think her style is a bit more minimalist though I did love this gown she wore this weird
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leather gown on her State visit to Spain and in contrast this is just
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magnificent it's very beautiful so let's move on to the next slide
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where um all the other British royal ladies we missed Kate obviously and yeah
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um wishing her all the best at the diploma reception and this she would have been a nice addition but we saw the
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other three Royal ladies wearing the King Charles family order for the first time and then quite some usual jewelry
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choices but a bit of a mix all around as well I um I think it's beautiful that
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the dutches of cler uh has the emerald I I would I'm not a fan of these three
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hanging emeralds uh I think it's is a Mitch Match but the brooch and the earring and
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The Tiara is very nice yes it is a bit of match because she has at least three
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diamond rever and she has two actual emerald and pear necklaces this is the
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first time she's worn this combination I have to say it's not a success but I I just think that they are too big
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uh it doesn't look it doesn't it hurt my eyes oh yes it reminds me bit of Queen
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an Marie but not done as well yeah yeah because but it's different emeralds that an Marie has she can better put it off
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yes they're the same size there size difference and this doesn't work but but
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my my favorite thing one of my favorite things about Bridget uh I love her she's
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my favorite [Music] um she's fantastic but um one of my
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favorite things about her is that in spite of her age she's in her 70s now
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something turn 180 is it two years or yes 0 and years
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she but in spite of her age she's still giving us surprises she's uh trying new
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things out uh she she decided for some reason this time to have emeralds
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hanging from her pearl necklace um while we see uh other Royal ladies her age and
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much younger who always wear the same I mean you're
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right queen queen Sonia for instance we know exactly what she's going to wear um
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and we know which uh which 10 dresses she's going to choose from and um so I
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like that she's still trying things out definitely and I mean
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speak we'll get to her later but um she wore the same she had six TR appearances
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this year she wore the emeralds for two of them and the pearls for four of them and no other variety same gowns so
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you're very right about that yes and then and and another thing
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I like that she's wearing gloves oh yes think it's very classy and if I had to
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shake shake shake so many hands uh as she does I would wear gloves
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too yes yes please and then um speaking of people
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who are the same thing every time Princess Anne who's wearing her cardier aquamarine Tiara which I think is again
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one of the ugliest Tiaras in the British Ro vaults they don't doine T very well and with a gown she first wore in the
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mid 19 80s and the fact she still fits into it is it it looks very in this uh what what
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this pendant from that little pearl necklace and it it no is it
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from person uh at the banquet and she was sitting right beside the Amir and she was in all the pictures she could
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have worn something better I think she should have won the Meander uh Tiara from the grael colle we
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have we have never seen it worn properly yes she wor last in 2005 and then
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decided she's never going to borrow another [Music] 2our but this aquamarine is it tiarra is
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it made in the 50s or in 1948 it was I I find it very difficult with this
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design I'm sure it's beautiful stones and whatever but I I the setting the the it's as you said
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it's one of the ugys that have the collection and speaking of um aquam
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Marine TS we have Sophie that is Edinburgh and this is her usual Tiara
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it's it's out of her the three Tiara she worn this is probably the better one
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yeah and then with um the necklace this is she's worn the earrings at the coronation and this is the first time
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she's worn the necklace it's from graph but uh it's a nice look all around
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but nothing be honest but she's and but I don't understand why they to
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out of the jewelry box or I I need some good historic pieces on her or some more
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beautiful pieces they're always like small and yeah actually Funny Sophie is the one who's usually kind of borrows
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pieces from the late Queen's collection so she usually has some interesting necklaces on this is the first time she's kind of wearing something kind of
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from her personal thing yeah yeah and maybe that's kind of a sign of things going forward that that's what she'll be
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doing and of begin that it's a gift from her husband because of
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the title or The Inheritance or something I think that's quite likely
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yeah um it kind of did appear around the same time and then another thing again from the ORD perspective brigit and
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Sophie are wearing the Stars wrong so that's on the wrong side they should be on the other side and and on the other
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hand is for the first time or so men usually wear multiple order Stars at the same time and we see um place like
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Denmark Queen Mary wears them but this is the first time that a British lady has worn both three stars at the same
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time and I must say it looks it looks
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veryy was Danish any a way so
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yes the only comment I have about Sophie is that I love that Tiara
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yes and I know a lot of people don't yes including
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me as far as kind of modern Tiaras for spare daughter-in-laws we'll get to
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the sudish one in a bit but this one is quite a nice design all things I
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think it's the best one of her three Chas she has wonn yeah I mean the best
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of a really really bad Bunch actually she the Lotus Tiara very
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well I must say she did yeah that was a success and I think before we run out of
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time because we have lots of tarot to cover let's move on to the next bit which is um Queen Camila's ladies in
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waiting I will not call them anything else and the martianz of lown were a lovely family Tiara but it was almost
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lost in the quality ladies in Waiting were very
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interesting Tiara which I'm I mean you would know it's very identical almost to Suzanne Vin's
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Tiara so that is a interesting kind of thing um the one in is that the one
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behind the lady in the yes so I have a better picture I might show you later
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but um she's I think she's aristocratic but I can't I don't where the con was
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almost identical which was a nice kind of it seems like that they agreed with the queen they always should come in with yes they
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do yeah oh yes so they don't have a uniform but they do have these pins
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which have the king and queen ciphers on them which is quite lovely and then uh in the next slide we
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see the lady Mayes of London who uh wore this Pearl and Diamond Tiara and this
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was actually her second consecutive night because the night before they had hosted the prime minister at a white
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time Tiara banquet so they got got she got married to the Lord Mir in April he
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started last month and she's already attended two Tiara's back Tiara events back to back so a good start is that a
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tiara belonging to her uh family or as her position as lady mayor I believe
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it's uh kind of something that's been loan to her as her position as lady Maris I mean I found out she follows me
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so I probably should ask um but hopefully we'll get another banquet with her and
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well they're only in position for a year so fingers crossed well until next no does she has
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some Scottish ancestors I'm thinking of a dress of the dress yeah don't know
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find out she's wearing I I'm haven't to find out much
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about her but that bro is actually something that has passed from Lady mirus to lady mirus that's something she
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post on her Instagram and plug follow her because she's actually quite interesting because she gives like
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behind the scenes look at everything we will dig into her another day
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Unfortunately they did not have second white time Tiara banquet for the Amir and it was only black TI banquet so we
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got no Tiaras on the second evening and we had the Duke of gler the doors didn't even bother and good on her she wasn't
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even going to show up for an event without any TRS and now we come to Denmark who hosted the Egyptian
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president on a state visit and it was announced kind of only two days before so very last last minute but a nice
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opportunity for us to see Tiaras and um I mean Marie and Benedict were in their
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usual I didn't have to change the descriptions from last time even for benedicta who were the same Stars the same
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Tiara and Marie looked nice but it was nice to see that both benedicta and Marie was in Denmark at that time oh
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yeah lovely now that the Dan Queen oh oh sorry the old Queen were in
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London yes it'd be nice to see her attempt St banqu with some time maybe New
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Year's yeah hopefully she'll join there it was nice to see and we had a very good terara surprise oh yes and for that
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one I think Sam let's move on to the next slide because Queen Mary has commissioned a new Tiara from the Danish
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crown jewels which they are calling the rose cut rose Rosen dadm I think is the
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Danish term it's actually called a girdle it's a belt um and it was made in the 184 40s
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the design of it so and it has never been changed uh so and it's it's not
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destroyed it's just uh they made a frame so it's possible to take the the stones
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out of the the girdle the belt and put it into um a tiara frame yes and it's a
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very um kind of interesting Tiara choice and the Diamonds as they clarify time and time again because they're Rose cut
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and they are not necessarily made to they were made to be worn as a girdle they're uh foil backed so they don't
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allow the light to shine through so that's why they look kind of more dense and don't Sparkle as much but they are
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massive diamonds and it's a lovely kind of addition they're very they're very big and we have all four all four of
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them four of us we have seen it in Reno and they are big oh def it's a nice a
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very lovely addition to the Danish raw PS uh and and I must say that it's
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really it's nice to see that the Danish royal family or the Royal collection or
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whatever you should call it that they understand um how big how big of a thing
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this is because they they released you know they released photos and of the
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whole process and you know they answered people's
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questions on their social media accounts um for for several days
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after they're very open about it and they made a very nice presentation video
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and I also think it's quite uh up to this um um the CEO or the the leader of
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this rosenb the king's collection Thomas is he's very good yes I was going to say
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that he he he really has the finger on the pulse of what people um want to see
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yeah what and what people want to know and and I think and I think that of all
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the European royal families at the moment uh the Danish uh royal family is
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the most open about all their stuff yeah it's there
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there's nothing to hide and they use it yes and and I don't know if that's
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because um they have a very clear uh we
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know what they own and we we've known it for a very long time uh it's not like
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other royal families like the WIS and the bernad dos and the Norwegians who
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have numerous things you know just hiding hidden away in in
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foundations and boxes and everything uh that they seem afraid to um to show off
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yeah now the transparency from Denmark is so refreshing and it's I think love
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the way they kind of embrace their jewelry because a lot of the other families they have this like fear of
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media and public opinion being a whole deal about them wearing jewels and stuff but the Danes they accept this as a part
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of their role and they much rather be open about it than kind of make it a cuse comment and until a few years ago
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it was only like the rosenort castle in Copenhagen and the mpor castle that was the collection and then they got calling
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who is in Jutland under the wings so it's also when there is exhibition in
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Copenhagen can also go to Jutland and now here from the 1 of January there'll
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be a new Castle under the wings and that will actually be Chan B castle where the where the Royal um um
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official rooms are so it it promis for some better uh exhibitions and even
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because he likes to do a lot of different exhibitions this Thomas and he's very good in talking the Royals
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Into participating in it so I I look forward to this I hope it will be
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promising for us oh definitely and kind of one thing I wanted to ask you because Casper I know
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you have some Danish links and lots of good nice places has this bandel
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returned to rosenborg yet and is it returned in Bandoo form or is it going to be back in the girdle form that is
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something I talked about yesterday when I was in C Hing with my niece and we
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were I want to go and see yes I I I have to uh I I cannot give you a clear answer
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but we we did know a week before that something was
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happening because my good friend Ste was in there and he asked me oh the the the
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display is empty what is normally here and then I sent in the picture oh it's the Rosenstein girdle I'm sure she's
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doing something and then I talked to you guys and oh she must be doing a tiara or something and then after a week Max and
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that's the only reason I include that picture of Maxima and Mary looking at the Tiara because you were so
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right it's it's quite nice and she looked very nice in it um I was
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surprised that she used it that fast Queen Mary because I thought she would
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actually be wearing the I think I talked to you guys about that this uh um the
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the pearl necklace from the kiv Egypt but she
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didn't actually the earrings for that wouldn't have been a bad idea because
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her diamond earrings are actually a pretty decent size and when she deputed them a few years ago we were like godamn
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they're massive but in contrast to this diamonds and this they look absolutely
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shiny so it's it's nice it's a nice
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brooch from the U Family Foundation for yes first time that was nice to see as
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well and we also have to say that the week before she gave us another surprise
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she was wearing a piece of jewelry also from it's display at roseno but it's not
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a crown jural but it used to belong to a accst that was married to a King but she
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was it has been on display for many years but she was wearing it it was in golden amethyst and citrin and Pearls
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but it was a very nice thing to see that that Queen Mary is interested in using these things that are laying at her
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dispos what do you say disposal or yeah yes yeah and I believe that was for a statue
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unveiling a statue of contest itself so yeah she's very kind of aware of the
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history and how to tank these pieces and that's kind of all we expect from a queen exactly because this lady was
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uh from she was a normal woman that got married to a King on
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the left side I think right side and uh but she never became Queen but she
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inherited everything and she let the money go to the people making this woman
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foundation and children's orphanages and they have been selfs surveill
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uh um they have been paying everything themselves from this inheritance for more than
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12030 years that's so inspiring I I
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about the count as Dano I I didn't real I didn't realize um I
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read uh around the time of the um of the statue unveiling that she basically
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inherited all the Royal jewels that weren't in the um that weren't part of
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the crown jewels and sold it I read that too and she sold it after it was sold
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after her death but I I didn't know that either but I know that she received a
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lot of jewelry from the king um like very often yes and and of course
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there was there were um there were a few princesses alive who had some jewelry
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that they sold and that were were bought by Queen Louise yeah but besides that
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everything seems to have uh been sold by by her estate yes and it seems like that they
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didn't want to buy anything that was given to her because he was not
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looked woman she was not uh it was with the old
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side they looked at her yes yeah and I one of the jewels that
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Queen Louise did buy was the broch that Mary wearing so yeah in 1881 I think after this uh Kina
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or I believe yes one of them she bought three pieces from that
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oan the earrings on this BR yeah love um lovely kind of gesture from
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Queen Mary and as we'll discuss she's been really the winner of this year's PR appearances yes
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we've been very pleasantly surprised I think I expected good things from Mary it's been a bit slow but it's been a
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nice year for her yeah I'm I'm quite excited to see what she will wear for the new year banket so yes a bit of a
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preview today a milenberg museum they posted the ring the earrings from the diamond peror and the
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pearls and so maybe that's a sign of something that she's going to wear oh I
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didn't see that yet oh that's exciting cool they do they did give us a bit of a preview with this Bandoo so you never
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know everyone keep an eye on their page yeah and then we move on to the next
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page H Sam see another Tiara that we got in the same couple days Queen matild they wore
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the wolfers necklace Tiara from a state visit from the Sultan of Oman and I mean all these uh European
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countries have been hosting a lot of Middle Eastern Royals and this is we got a nice exchange of orders and queen
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matild looks quite Regal despite the small Tiara yes he
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does I'm I must say that the wolfers uh it's
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quite a small necklace but it looks bigger as a tiara or Matilda manages to
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make it look bigger as a tiara um and I'm quite fond of it actually
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yes I like her earrings they are quite uh it's substantial yes I believe there's
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something she I my personal belief is she got them as a 20th anniversary gift
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and this was the day before they celebrate their silver wedding anniversary so maybe she's gone some
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nice je resar problem so no party no they were
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working I do like we talked about her dress at another occasion that that the
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the arms is like a panel but I was so surprised to see that you see this skin
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in front of her it that was a little surprising for me
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it's a bit unusual for matilde's own like personal fashion as well not just for guest but M herself doesn't really
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we upside that and originally this cape was actually um the Gown by Nan I
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believe is just plain and she made the of adding this glittery Cape which I
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think is a nice over yeah and the sultan Aban he looks so
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Regal with this his costume and the the turban and and and the Belgian order
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definitely and I believe that is the traditional turban is that color and it suits perfectly with Belgian order so
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yeah does his wife is really nice too and she was all to show me but she didn't come for the visit which was a
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bit of a disappointment but is he has been on other um like public things in
32:58
Europe uh or and in England when there was something but I never seen him with his wife yes they um even when Philipe
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and Matilda visited Oman few years ago she hosted them separately but she didn't appear with her frostman in any
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official way okay it's like what they did in Morocco many years ago yes so she's not the queen she just she I
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believe her official ttle is actually first lady okay it's interesting there kind of I'm
33:27
sure they are all the way up 100% with women rights there
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yeah the next slide and we got the Dutch hosting the
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president of Portugal and this was uh again one of those things later in the
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year nice to see Amalia with them but in this slide we'll talk first about Maxima and we're wearing the rubies which is
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quite lovely I love that that is
33:59
but I'm less of a fan of that g yeah and and the most amazing thing to
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be said about that very lovely peror is that it has a matching uh fan oh
34:16
yes but has she ever yeah she she had it in uh for
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called phets Wedding she had the uh actually that was not um the match
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fan that was another diamond and crusted fan that in the colle more than one Diamond than one oh I know you love fans
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Jacob that's fantastic the Dutch collection is full of Wonders so they have actually a couple
34:42
of diamond cryst fans but they do love to play around with it and I mean the Gown is awful but
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the jewels more than make up for it and it works very well with the collar of the Portuguese order that
34:56
Maxim and then it was nice to see that a a chrome princess was attending oh yes and I think we'll move
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on to next slide to see the jewels in order but Amalia uh has really been kind
35:09
of stepping up she attended one state visit earlier this year and now she's at
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another state visit and Sam if we move on to the next slide we'll see Amalia
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wearing um the diamond star Tiara which is what her mother wore in her wedding Den which was Amalia's first official
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Tiara as an adult and she looks really lovely in it and she I always liked her
35:32
but she lost a lot of weight yes much more
35:38
confident recently than she has been in the past and it's been nice to see her kind of having that kind of glow and
35:44
being able to carry herself very well maybe she's some Bulgarian son or
35:54
something what did you say Jacob you have to listen to the episode too
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yes yeah I think overall from it's very nice to see a Crown Princess attending a
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banquet because we have she has a lot of peers her age and as you've just seen on last couple of slides none of them do
36:16
attend these Banquets so for her to be stepping up and doing the sorts of things and we know she loves jewels and
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she never misses an opportunity to dress up so it's lovely to see her taking her duties so well
36:29
definitely The Tiara I'm not a fan of but she wears it so well that I didn't
36:35
mind I think it's a very sweet Tiara actually but
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yeah one thing to be said about the Amalia is that we we we uh we see so so
36:49
many discussions and point of views on the uh all the different forums and chat rooms and whatever about start Tiaras
36:57
and this and that and what's appropriate for younger ladies and older ladies and
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Amalia she just she wears what she wants she doesn't care if it's too big or too
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small or she just
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yes and she's a future Queen She no one can tell her what to do so no
37:21
exactly we like her we do and then um in the next slide we'll see another State
37:27
banquet which did not have a tiara but and with lazia that is kind of expected
37:32
they went on a state visit to Italy and the Gown itself was not that well but we see Letizia and phpp walking up the
37:39
stairs of the Coronel and that is such a Regal shot and only would have been so
37:45
it's not a funeral I know the but she do you wear
37:52
the bracelets from hoan yes the bulgary diamond bracelets
37:57
made made by Queen enaf when she dismantled her crown when they went into Exile she was like I don't need a crown
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anymore she dismantled made these stunning bracelets and these are kind of some of laia's favorite jewels and very
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fitting to her bulgar in Italy yeah it's a good Amish that's kind I
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think all we can say about this look we can move on yeah and then we got the Nobel prizes in Sweden and for the first
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time in many years a full family turnout minus princess CHR cha but just loving to see the king and
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queen with all their children and in-laws all together yes and they look
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stunning I wish they'd release a better version of this group photo because uh
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for those of people seeing it on YouTube and other platforms it is a really horrible quality image it and it could
38:52
be so much better but it's nice to see kind of the hierarch respected and Victoria with the king and queen and
38:58
everyone else standing behind them but I mean medene she was so
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beautiful definitely she has a whole slide dedicated to her but let's move first talk about in the next slide
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Sylvia and Victoria who I was surprised to see because she
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does repeat GS but this one is almost a decade old and I think I believe one of
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you suggested that it may be because they're in a bit of mourning for princess brigita and that she repeated
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this with the lenberg sapphir which are as glorious as ever but she looked
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beautiful and she turns 81 now yes
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yes but absolutely Regal and Crown Princess wore the bot
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and Fringe Tiara which is one of my favorites on her and she wore the earrings of the pink topaz peror for the
39:54
first time and that is what I'm writing about for Sylvia's birthday now next week so um very fitting that she decid
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to debut because I've beening that Victoria would wear this at the nobels for I think since 2015 and she finally
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made though I wish you wore the necklace as well that was yeah but they are not that
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big fans of necklace these years no yes Jacob and I have had that discussion
40:21
many and and we I've talked about it with Sam as well it's the burnard seems
40:28
the Bernard dos especially but it's a trend all over Europe they seem allergic
40:34
to uh necklaces and if they wear a necklace it's it's most often one of the
40:41
the Diamond Rivers yeah and I have a very big
40:46
expectation for Queen Mary this uh first of January this is the first time she as
40:52
a queen will attend the new y Gala and she should she has not been wearing a full Pera yet
41:01
yes I think I think I wrote it in one of our chats that I think that the days of
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the of the full peror are um are over I
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know but I was sick that day yeah no I think that with the
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today's static it's um it's too it's seen as too much well fashion is
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cyclical so you know we will come back and and I mean I mean um I I was talking
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to another friend of mine uh about the the Rivier C situation in Sweden um
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Queen Lise for instance she she had the habit of wearing uh I think it was three
41:49
Rivier at the same time uh and they were one of them was the longest one and and
41:55
it often had the big um I think it's called the Vasa diamond or something
42:02
yes and we've we never see see see the
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current crop of of Bernard dos do that I think we've seen silia wear
42:15
to sometimes yes not since the mid 2000s though no uh and it's and it's such a
42:23
shame I mean they don't really have that many uh non Rivier necklaces but they
42:29
have a few that they could make use of they do have more than a couple other
42:36
countries yeah I mean they have the uh the the King Edward uh Ruby Tiara that
42:44
can be made into neace they have the processional necklace they have the
42:51
top yes and they did add earrings to the emerald set so
42:59
yeah yeah and and I wonder if they could if they wanted to if they could turn the
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um is it amethyst the the the the circlet into a
43:13
necklace again if they wanted to yes because it was original necklace
43:20
and two bracelet wasn't it yes yes and even the amethyst and that um bracelet
43:27
necklace those are pretty large too but they don't even wear that no
43:32
exactly so like you've been saying the epidemic of no necklaces has been quite
43:40
bad so uh Victoria's gown this is by I will not pronounce the name of the
43:46
designer Jacob but you can the one uh and I mean I know you have U
43:54
mixed feelings on his designs for Victor there are rather nice but there's always
44:01
something that's a bit off yeah he um but he's apparently a new
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favorite of hers because he's made so many dresses for her in the last one or two
44:17
years um and he's one of the best friends of one of of a stylist and that
44:22
must have played into um yeah yeah and the funniest thing about uh him being
44:29
the new Royal uh designer is that I mean he became famous for doing
44:36
impersonations of Queen Sylvia as a drag or yes yes yes youever
44:45
seos if you've seen a Swedish drag queen doke Sylvia it's kav and he started
44:52
doing it in the 70s and the bernad Dos loved it
44:57
um and so they started going to his shows the drag shows publicly and he was
45:03
invited to perform at Roy ro royal gas and everything
45:09
andun and it's I mean it's they did so you know during the 70s the 80s which
45:17
weren't really you know the high it wasn't really the best age for
45:22
for for uh gay visibility and it's uh that I mean
45:29
that we've seen so many of of the Royals who have gone to the drag shows and they
45:36
are very open about it so um yes and it's I think it's
45:42
played into the visibility of of uh the Swedish gay movements um which have
45:49
always had the support of the royal family here you also see like that they
45:55
are very welcome as guests with apartment and if they have a Absolut
46:01
yeah and then we had Princess Sophia who's wearing Jacob's favorite
46:10
Tiara it's everybody's favorite Tiara you see it so often I know she's warned for the past
46:17
27 appearances since 2017 and I mean that's got to be kind of
46:24
a record there but this time with Blue London Topaz and she had earrings and a
46:31
brooch and the bracelet apparently is the most expensive piece out of that entire ensemble and that's probably
46:37
where all the budget went to but a nice given it's she's in deep
46:44
maternity yeah the the the ring she's wearing a ring as well yes uh the ring
46:50
and the earrings are just they were custom made
46:56
for her but it's they're go they're they are just
47:01
alone um and they're going to be sold oh if I got that right and then the
47:11
brooch was also custom made for her but I think she's keeping that one okay or
47:18
if it was the other way around I can't remember I'm sorry I remember correctly what order
47:26
you have is that what's gonna happen it's like princess Maria who has this uh French Sapphire
47:34
ter at her disposal from a company that she helped
47:39
uh design it you remember that yes it's like a fashion now that they have
47:46
these companies making for can do that for the spare
47:53
Royals in that sense because they don't necessarily have that much public scrutiny on them nice jewels kind of
48:00
capitalize on it without it harming any the brooch is interesting it looks like a snowflake
48:07
and it's the same design as her Tiara I wouldn't say I'm a fan but it's nice to
48:12
see some inclusion in a jewelry collection I I must say that like The
48:18
Tiara um there's something in the design that makes it look cheap yeah yes
48:27
it's a Christmas Tiera it's a lot of small Christmas trees
48:32
yes it's a nice Tia if this is the only one you're going to wear but I think we
48:38
and collectively I think all of Swedish media decided against it because on the day of the nobels I was looking at
48:45
through the main sites and everyone was like why is Sophia wearing that same Tiara and as we was see in a few slides
48:52
I think all the criticism worked because she has changed it but first we're going to talk about in the next slide who I
48:58
think was the star of the entire show Princess meline and
49:03
um she wore this stunning gown I believe it was F
49:09
eluri and she really she knows how to carry jewels and she wears them well her hair
49:16
is always perfect unlike her sister and but this is just a stunning look all
49:21
around would have been Lovelier with a necklace but we should be happy with what we got she looks so stunning and
49:28
that is my favorite Sierra yeah she wears it so well the con bracelet is also a old family Alum
49:38
yes from the um B family if I believe and she wears the bro and the
49:45
earrings from the emerald set for the first time
49:50
yes for her first Tiara Nobel prizes in couple years this was a nice comeback
49:57
it is
50:03
yeah um then we move on to the final event of the Nobel festivities the king's dinner for the Nobel laurates
50:09
where we had Queen Sylvia and CR Victoria wearing their usual nine prong
50:15
Laurel wreath the diamond rever nothing new nothing string and that bro princess
50:20
sabilla which Jacob spotted a last year's Nobel dinner and he said that she's going to wear it all the time now
50:26
and he's been prooved correct as she has wor great Jacob when will you find
50:33
something new I'm doing my best but it's um it's
50:40
part of her uh usual uh uniform now I
50:45
it's it's not a bad roach to wear but I mean come on and I must say that it it's I like
50:53
the brooch it's very nice but it's it it doesn't match anything else she's
51:00
wearing yes no I like the history of the Tiara but I think it should be made into
51:06
Anish again I I agree with you I'm not a fan of this TR anymore but about this
51:13
bro Jacob do you remember what stone it is was it opal or was it a gate or you
51:20
know I think everyone has been saying that it's an opal and I have no idea I
51:25
can recognize that so you are the original expert so we all
51:30
refer to you you the one who found
51:37
it but I mean big diamond reviewers on both of them but as you said there's no
51:43
variety there they all kind just into each other and then we move on to the
51:49
more exciting tars of the evening uh on Sophia and mine and Princess Sophia wore
51:54
new Tiara after 27 appearances for the aquamarines and I think she looks lovely
51:59
in them even though I'm not a fan of her hairstyle no but it was lovely to see on
52:04
her but it's her own earrings isn't it actually uh I did not even pay
52:11
attention to the earrings but they do look very similar something princess sabilla wore in the 30s so they very M
52:17
might because she also has a set of acarines to put in her own wedding Tiara
52:23
doesn't see yes but these are not those ear remember corre no okay but the
52:28
brooch she's wearing is something that she's loan from Queen Sylvia it's a plain Diamond Bar brooch but she
52:34
actually she has a really good broch kind of selection all the time even but we all kind of ignore that because she
52:39
wears the same Tiara over and over and over again so but it's beautiful this
52:46
I she does have you ever seen it at Silvera have we no because it still belongs to the King's sister and until
52:53
we know any better yeah I think still because she respect that while the other ladies are happy to have a new
52:59
TR I I I must say that I as much as I like wearing the Tiara and I think she
53:05
wears it well um it I think she wore it
53:11
with the wrong dress I agree because it the the the stones looks a bit washed
53:20
out um in comparison to the Blue Dress yeah okay yeah
53:28
good it needed something much more solid of show off the which are
53:36
really and then we had prin princess meline wearing the cut steel Tiara for
53:41
the first time and she wears it very well but I have to say I just like the dress and the hairstyle it just for both
53:49
of them I think they were so excited with the new tiaras that they kind of ignored the rest of the look and just
53:55
doesn't like yeah it's bow appearance like her other B was what earrings is Metaline
54:03
wearing the vosa ones I which are her favorites yeah yes I was guessing so
54:11
much because it was difficult for me to see on the I was zooming in on the picture also W for wedd yes she did yes
54:21
I think personally that the Vasa earrings should be reserved for the
54:27
queen yeah I
54:33
agree yes they are they were um H let's see they belonged to at least
54:42
queen fredri or maybe her mother-in-law uh Queen Sophia
54:47
Magdalene um and they went they were part of the jewels that she and her
54:54
husband uh to with them abroad when they were deposed and banished in
55:02
1809 and then their grand daughter uh who became queen of Saxony Queen
55:10
carola uh when her cousin uh Victoria of of Bon when she
55:18
married the future Gustav the 5th uh in
55:23
1880 something uh gave them uh these uh
55:29
earrings because she wanted um her her cousin to have some brings
55:38
some family diamonds back to to Sweden beautiful and and actually her her I've
55:46
read that uh when her parents married um they um he gave his future Bri he
55:55
gave his bride a big casket of diamonds and other
56:02
jewelry um and these are what's left because unfortunately unfortunately
56:10
uh in the book I read unfortunately the the author um believes that most of it
56:17
was destroyed uh when dren was bombed in
56:22
1945 oh um so at least we have these hearings yes and as and you are correct
56:30
they are probably the oldest uh they are the oldest ver pieces of Jewelry in the Royal
56:37
collection that we can uh whose age we can verify there are some theories that
56:43
the buttons some of the buttons in the button tis uh belong to Queen Louisa ulria or
56:50
maybe even her mother who was the queen of Prussia or something yeah uh but we
56:58
don't really know such fascinating histories but I agree with Jacob and that these should be reserved for the
57:05
queen and the so the diamonds in these are very unique the bigger one that
57:10
Queen Sylvia has does where are the Carl Johan earrings and um those are kind
57:16
have a certain thing but these ones are just more historic in that sense and I believe Victoria only worn them once or
57:22
twice mine worn them almost all its time and I mean Victoria said in the documentary uh the Royal jewelry
57:30
documentary that she's afraid to wear them and she she even said that
57:36
um she had never worn them before but uh our friend Sarah could very uh quickly
57:43
um prove that she has in fact worn them but Victoria is afraid to wear them
57:50
because they are so old um but mine wears them all the time
57:58
yeah there is actually something um we said last year when mine wore the topass
58:03
earrings for the first time at the Jubilee banquet that Victoria in sence
58:08
has mine try out the new jewels that she wants to wear and then Victoria starts wearing them the next year and they
58:14
became her like regulars so it's one of those things where they have a very interesting sisterly relationship with
58:20
mine kind of debiting the more historic and bigger pieces first I don't know if
58:25
it's it's uh that V you know that melin isn't afraid to ask if she can if she
58:31
can wear them while Victoria is more you know uh more afraid to ask or if um you
58:39
know um VI Madeline just picks whatever she wants and then Victoria discovers
58:46
them when when a sister wears them and she realizes oh I could have worn that
58:51
too and that's kind of how it was when the conal tiara with the Opera Marines
58:57
the topazes very interesting and then I
59:03
think we are at the last slide after this which was U just looking at the
59:11
lady whose name you guys told me about she's a lovely Professor the wife of Nobel Laur and she wore a couple of
59:17
interesting pias during the festivities and it was a nice kind of look at that
59:23
yeah we in Natasha staler um again Natasha
59:30
staler I think I don't know how it's pronounced but but she's um she's married to uh Rudy no something rivkin
59:40
who was uh who was one of the Noel laurates and she
59:46
wore one Tiara for the Nobel for the Noel banquet another Tiara for the
59:52
king's dinner and from what I've read there was another lady who we could see
1:00:00
dur yes it was her daughter and she was also wearing a tiara yes she wore
1:00:06
thisara at the um Nobel prizes and then so the mother and daughter switch to
1:00:15
off wasn't she wearing the same dress it was also a red one the day
1:00:20
before or could be another one I believe she was actually the same
1:00:28
dress so all right but I mean often they
1:00:34
participating P yes now the nobels are over they'd have no need for other gowns so it's
1:00:41
good thing to kind of wear the same thing over and I mean Daisy could wear
1:00:46
her red f ftin dress for two decades um so I'm I'm sure that Natasha
1:00:54
could uh be allowed to wear her dress a few more times actually no um she did
1:01:00
wear a red fur trim dress but that was damask with patterns on it on day one
1:01:05
which is very much like Daisy's address and this one I'm sending you guys a picture again but this one is plain silk
1:01:11
so oh okay but a beautiful detail about this
1:01:18
picture is actually the old picture in the background of Crown Princess
1:01:23
Margaretta of Sweden with Theif tiara on her chest and the coral Tiara in her
1:01:29
hair yes and then we have her aquam Marine tiar worn by Sophia and her
1:01:35
Laural wath one worn by Victoria so yes very nice to see kind of all those links
1:01:41
being represented I do love that P and I think after this one we can move
1:01:47
towards the end Sam with this photo
1:01:53
um some of the most T moments we've gotten we've had a new king and queen in
1:01:59
Denmark a new king and queen in Malaysia a jubilee in Jordan a lot of Royal State visits we had the Japanese in the UK the
1:02:06
luxembourg's in Belgium the Spanish and the Netherlands we had the Danes in Sweden and Norway and a bunch of really
1:02:13
nice kind of tiar debuts as well we had the kiv on princess Theodora Queen Mary
1:02:18
were three new Tiaras and really embraced it and a lot of the other ladies brought out their big guns so
1:02:25
what was kind of your favorite standard moment of
1:02:31
2024 well I think mine was marrying the emeralds and the
1:02:36
pearls and um just because obviously she's the new Queen now and she's embracing the
1:02:43
the new crown jewels that she has access to and Camila in the kosnik because we
1:02:50
haven't seen that in years and that was a nice surprise oh I have so many
1:02:56
so difficult to choose but I I agree Mary and and the
1:03:02
emeralds especially tiar I was not a big fan on the necklace
1:03:08
on that gown but and then also when Mary was wearing the pearls in no way yes
1:03:14
that was a very successful and of course a new TI yes Mary's really the winner of The
1:03:21
Tiara Stakes she's had six Tiara appearances this year seven if you count that video of her trying on the Bandoo
1:03:28
and it's been for a new Queen she's only has one left that she has left de so far
1:03:35
I'm think she's been quite a success is especially after Queen Daisy wearing
1:03:41
the pearls for like the past two years consecutively like yeah but I can't wait
1:03:47
for her to to to wear the flower tiar too that's I really can't wait to see
1:03:52
her like put it back on a proper frame I one we have I've been hoping for ever
1:03:58
since I love when green mcgr is wearing it in the three parts but when we went to see it in the exhibition and to know
1:04:06
that it's made in the 1850s it was gorgeous and remember how we was uh
1:04:11
stamping on the floor make it move M it was it
1:04:19
was I saw it being warned by Queen margara but when we went to the exhibition the next day it was not on
1:04:25
display there so I got to see it on the real deal which I think is probably a bit more special but I did miss out on
1:04:31
that on Dr Blan and the picture was lovely but I'm pretty sure the real Tiara is something else and actually
1:04:38
we'll probably discuss this when she wears it but I have a feeling that she they do need a smaller Tiara option and
1:04:44
now that she has the bandel but she can't really wear that abroad in that sense I have a feeling she might wear
1:04:50
just one of the sections of the floral Tiara as a smaller Tiara option and that might become kind of new go-to
1:04:57
thing because those are substantial in
1:05:02
themselves yeah it's an interesting thought I never I didn't think of that I just wanted as a big one I can cannot
1:05:09
settle for L let's see hoping at New Year she wears
1:05:14
the big floral Tia of all of the elements with the crown jewels per and
1:05:20
that's what she goes with that would be fine yeah it would be exciting to see what she choose
1:05:25
definitely and I think my favorite moment was um probably Maxima and the full Stewart that was a nice
1:05:33
appearance um after Mary I'd say the emeralds were top but Maximo was nice
1:05:38
kind of standout thing what about you Jacob well
1:05:43
um being a bit biased I must say that I
1:05:49
I um I really like the uh splendor of the
1:05:56
Danish State visit to Sweden oh they really they really went
1:06:03
uh over you know they they all the stops there uh I hope to see more of these you
1:06:11
know receptions uh receiving the guests by out by the
1:06:16
Sea uh um and I was also uh quite
1:06:22
impressed about how the Swedish social media accounts handled the state visit
1:06:27
we got to see uh a lot more than we usually get to see and it was also it
1:06:36
was also very very nice and a nice change to see so much uh of the state
1:06:42
visits on TV oh yes and that's thing in
1:06:48
Sweden uh but besides that uh I I I like The Bling blingos of
1:06:57
the new king of Malaysia and I was very happy to see
1:07:04
masako uh wear a tiara again
1:07:10
yeaha um she she looks she I mean she
1:07:15
dresses very conservatively uh but she's a very beautiful lady and she wears jewelry
1:07:23
very well when she does it yeah oh so and she's also she also seems
1:07:30
very very sweet oh yes I hope they will come on a
1:07:35
state visit to Denmark hopefully I think it might take
1:07:41
a couple years and we actually may see a Danish State visit to Japan probably sooner than that because it has been a
1:07:47
bit of a while I can cope with that yes I I I I I I mean I did see
1:07:56
when in was it 90 or 91 or something when the uh uh old Emperor and Empress
1:08:03
came to Copenhagen yes 9 89 yes I was um
1:08:10
by accident um it was 98 actually was it that late oh yes it was because
1:08:17
Alexandre was there as well um and I did see uh and that was in you know in the
1:08:24
old days before sec and everything yeah so I've been within
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maybe 2 meters of Emperor what was his name
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akahito and and mishiko it was um they
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were they were very very tiny but they were very very
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Imperial they were actually visiting a older home in my city but I wasn't there
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no but if they come to Copenhagen we will be there Casper won't we oh
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definitely long as it's not January oh God I'll be there even if
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it's January that was cold wasn't it
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Sam speaking of January it's a nice way to end things do you either of you plan
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to go see the first New Year's of the new king and queen or is it too cold and too far away to make the journey I could
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I could um I could live with the cold and it's always cold uh but but
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um you're not allowed uh you're not allowed close enough to see
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anything sad because it's not the it's not that many years ago when the when
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the uh crowd were really really close yeah um but now you're pushed back to
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the statue in the middle yes so it's not actually worth going it's like going to
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Stockholm watching something with that distance it's not normally that there such a distance in Denmark but that's
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what they have for the new year I don't know why no and you can also see I mean
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the crowds uh have been getting smaller uh every year because you don't see
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anything I know actually have an idea if you guys
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are willing for it I might try to get media accreditation and then you might get to stand with the media would any of
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you be up for that God no I'm I'm working I'm working New Year
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Eve I'm working New Year day just have to stand there I expect no pictures just
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enjoy it would be nice but but as as we talked about earlier before we started I'm I'm away for the new year
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so I think I'll be home on the second or the third I'm not sure yet but but normally would be something I would say
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yes to next year yeah maybe the rawal water
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can be useful for something yes yes please well anyway it's been lovely to
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chat with you both today and I'm so glad join us on a Monday evening it's really
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an honor to all of you it's always a pleasure yeah we hope to come back on
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the podcast and talk about the New Year's tra in a few weeks yeah fantastic