Most Famous Queen Elizabeth s Necklace Collection Explained

Queen Elizabeth the Second wore jewels for seventy years, but her necklace collection tells a different story than her tiaras ever could. From imperial emeralds gifted for a durbar in India to a ruby necklace she simply bought for herself in her seventies, these nine pieces trace diplomacy, inheritance, and personal taste across an entire reign.

We look at the Delhi Durbar Necklace and its emerald parure built for imperial pageantry, the South Africa Necklace gifted on her twenty first birthday, the Coronation Necklace assembled from the leftovers of older jewels, the Brazilian Aquamarine Parure sent as a coronation gift from South America, the Nizam of Hyderabad Necklace and its dismantled matching tiara, the Baring Ruby Necklace she purchased outright in 2002, the King George the Sixth Sapphire Suite given to her by her father as a wedding gift, Queen Victoria's Diamond and Pearl Necklace, and finally the Three Strand Pearl Necklace, the piece that became more recognizable than any diamond in her collection.