The Princess of Wales is back with a stunning heirloom accessory!
Tuesday night, the Princess of Wales attended the Diplomatic Reception at Buckingham Palace along with Prince William, King Charles, and Queen Consort Camilla. Every year, the royals host the event, inviting hundreds of diplomats to the State Rooms of the palace.
The Lotus Flower Tiara was on display on Catherine, 40, for the first time since 2015. She previously wore the sparkler to the state banquet for Chinese President Xi Jinping in 2015 as well as the 2013 diplomatic reception at Buckingham Palace.
According to The Court Jeweller, the Queen Mother used a necklace that had been a wedding present from her husband, the future King George VI, to make the Lotus Flower Tiara. The piece was later worn by their daughter Princess Margaret, who later loaned it to Serena Stanhope when she wed Margaret’s son in 1993.
The tiara was worn by Princess Catherine with a red Jenny Packham gown, a blue sash, and her yellow Royal Family Order.
She finished off her ensemble with a pair of Queen Elizabeth II-owned earrings.
At the reception, Queen Consort Camilla made an appearance wearing Queen Elizabeth II’s Belgian Sapphire Tiara.
In 2020 and 2021, the Diplomatic Reception was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The U.K.’s Foreign Secretary advised Queen Elizabeth, who passed away in September, to postpone the reception that was set to take place on March 2 at Windsor Castle because of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine in February 2022.
Just two weeks after Catherine made her tiara debut as the Princess of Wales, she attended the glitzy reception. Princess Catherine wore a white Jenny Packham gown and Queen Mary’s Lover’s Knot tiara to a state dinner honoring South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on November 22.
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The tiara was a favorite of Princess Diana, her mother-in-law, and featured pearls dangling from diamond knots. The headpiece was initially ordered from the jeweler Garrard by Queen Mary in either 1913 or 1914, according to the Court Jeweller, who claims that it is more than a century old. It is a copy of a tiara that Princess Augusta of Hesse, the Duchess of Cambridge, Mary’s grandmother, once wore.
The Queen’s bracelet and Princess Diana’s former mother-in-law Princess Diana’s earrings helped the Princess to complete her ensemble.
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Before the state banquet last month, Catherine hadn’t worn a tiara in three years. In December 2019, she wore the Lover’s Knot tiara, the Nizam of Hyderabad necklace, and a navy velvet gown with long sleeves by Alexander McQueen (the designer of her wedding dress), which was her most recent outing in such a headpiece.
