November 2013

Flashback Friday: A Video Treat, Plus a Programming Note

Next week is a holiday week in my part of the world (Happy Thanksgiving, American readers!), and I'm making it a holiday week for the bl...

The Rosenborg Kokoshnik Tiara Designed in the shape inspired by traditional Russian kokoshnik headdresses , this tiara features a swagged ga...

Best in Regular Stuff Crown Princess Victoria Mathilde at a couple palace events and visiting a hospital; Kate out and about at a charity; M...

Everybody is everywhere right now - your typical November surge in events, just before the holidays. Today's installment of Traveling wi...

We've been voting on different categories of tiaras all year - broad groups, ones commonly seen in today's grand tiara collections -...

Crown Princess Victoria's 18th Birthday Tiara By now, we’ve seen Crown Princess Victoria in a wide array of Swedish tiaras, but she star...

Since we're inching closer to the sparklefest of the Nobel Prizes in Sweden in December, and since I'm still thinking about Crown Pr...

Best of the Week The Benelux Queens Our newest pair of sovereign couples take the cake this week, as the Belgians paid a quick (super quic...

So many Princess Alexandras out there - today's about the one in Denmark, the one that used to be married to Prince Joachim and is now k...

The Prussian Meander Tiara The Prussian Meander Tiara was made by German court jewellers Koch in 1905 as a wedding gift for Duchess Cecilie ...

Now that we've reached November ( how did we get this far along in the year, ugh), weddings are getting a little more sparse - but fear...

Well, At Least You Showed Up Princess Letizia Letizia visits a residence for the elderly, attends an awards ceremony and an anniversary part...

Older tiaras are grand - the history of these things is part of the draw, really, at least for me - but we need some recognition for the peo...