The Princess of Wales is wearing "The Queen Mother's Amethyst Sautoir
Necklace" 👑
Queen Alexandra presented this pearl, diamond, and amethyst necklace to Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon as a wedding gift in 1923. Two years later, Queen Elizabeth wore it after Alexandra's death.
Let me tell you what happened in Leicester Square tonight, because it was better than the film.
The Princess of Wales has not walked a red carpet since May 2022. In between came the year the family does not discuss: the surgery, the diagnosis, the video from the garden bench, the chemotherapy, the months when the country quietly counted the days. Tonight she walked one again.
She wore purple. Deep plum, Jenny Packham, cut lower than she has ever dared, the colour of queens. Her hair was half up, so that you could see the earrings, and the earrings were Diana's pearls. At her throat, on a rope of pearls to the waist, hung an amethyst heart the size of a walnut. Queen Alexandra gave it to the Queen Mother in 1923, the year she married into the family. It has been worn through a war, an abdication and a century of clever men underestimating the women who wore it.
This morning a book went on sale calling that Queen petty and the King a lottery winner on the morning Diana died. The family's reply to a week of it has been one sentence. Tonight the future Queen answered without one: she wore the Queen Mother's heart and Diana's pearls at the same time, and let the flashbulbs do the talking.
And William. Black tie, half a step behind her on the carpet, in her light rather than his own, with the look of a man who walked behind a coffin at fifteen and has spent every year since making sure she would never be alone on a carpet, or in a hospital, or anywhere.
She looked magnificent. Not because of the dress, though it was perfect, and not because of the necklace, though it was a hundred years of the family on a single strand. She looked magnificent because she looked well, and happy, and unafraid.
The book will be in the bargain bins by Christmas. The amethyst goes back to the vault, until another woman wears it on another night for reasons nobody will need to explain. That is the difference between a family and a grievance. One of them lasts.
🇺🇳 Queen Máxima, United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Advocate for Financial Health (UNSGSA), arrives at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City to attend the 81st Session of the UN General Assembly
[PHOTOS]: His Majesty King Mswati III has arrived safely in New York where he will attend & address the 81st Session of the UN General Assembly. This year’s event is held under the theme: "Restoring trust, managing transformation: A United Nations that delivers for all".
#UNGA81
The Sovereigns of Denmark, Sweden, Belgium, The Netherlands, Spain, Jordan, Luxembourg, and Monaco led the Royal Guests and Heads of State at the Funeral of King Harald V of Norway. https://t.co/6OgmojiMh0
🔴 | Felipe VI y Doña Letizia asistirán, junto a la reina Sofía, al funeral de Estado del rey Harald V de Noruega, según ha informado el Palacio de la Zarzuela. Por este motivo, los Reyes de España se desplazarán el próximo 9 de septiembre hasta la Catedral de Oslo.
Hasta el momento han confirmado su asistencia:
🇩🇰 Los Reyes Federico y Mary de Dinamarca, acompañados por el príncipe Christian, la reina Margarita y la princesa Benedicta.
🇧🇪 Los Reyes Felipe y Matilde de Bélgica.
🇳🇱 Los Reyes Guillermo y Máxima de Holanda, en compañía de la princesa Amalia y la princesa Beatriz.
🇯🇵 Los príncipes herederos Akishino y Kiko de Japón.
🇱🇺 Los Grandes Duques de Luxemburgo, Guillermo y Sthepanie, así como Enrique.
🇲🇨 El príncipe Alberto de Mónaco.
🇱🇮 El príncipe regente Alois y la princesa Sophie.
*Faltarían por confirmar la Familia Real del Reino Unido, así como las Casas Reales árabes, que no suelen anunciar su presencia*
Revealed: every royal set to attend the funeral of King Harald V of Norway – from Queen Mary of Denmark to the Crown Prince of Japan
https://t.co/6HrxuadGoY
Crown Princess Marie-Chantal of Greece has posted a heartwarming birthday tribute to her mother-in-law, Queen Anne-Marie, to mark the matriarch’s 80th birthday
https://t.co/01EQrdnoI3
🔴🇳🇴 | El Rey Haakon VIII jura la Constitución en el Parlamento noruego. El acto ha destacado por la llamativa ausencia de la Reina Mette Marit, debido a su delicada salud por el trasplante pulmonar, y por el destacado protagonismo de la Princesa Heredera Ingrid Alexandra.
“Prometo y juro querer gobernar el Reino de Noruega de conformidad con su Constitución y sus leyes, ¡con la ayuda de Dios todopoderoso y omnisciente!".
De esta forma, el nuevo monarca da inicio formal a su reinado, bajo el mismo lema que su padre y su abuelo: “Todo por Noruega”, y con el notorio vacío de la nueva Reina consorte.