The King George VI Victorian suite and the Belgian sapphire tiara are the third and fourth most costly items of sapphire jewelry within the Royal Household, each estimated to be value £5million every in keeping with jewelry specialists at Steven Stone.
The specialists took a more in-depth have a look at the unique necklace and stated it options 18 sapphires, sat on a gradient, starting from eight to 30-carats, earlier than it was redesigned in 1952.
These big sapphires are surrounded by a halo of diamonds and linked collectively by extra single-stone diamonds, that are between 0.8ct and 1.5ct.
When Queen Elizabeth altered the necklace, she eliminated 4 of the sapphire clusters from the again and remodelled and reset one of many bigger stones from the entrance, to create a good looking pendant for the necklace which Camilla selected to not put on this night.
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