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Her maternal grandmother, Queen Olga of Greece, was also a Russian Grand Duchess by birth with her own magnificent jewellery collection.
As she was growing up, it was a Romanov family tradition to give girls two diamonds a year for birthdays and name days until they reached adulthood. By the time she was sixteen, Olga already had 26 diamonds that she could sew in to her Kokoshnik, the traditional Russian court headdress. Queen Olga Of Greece, Russian Crown Jewels, Romanov Jewellery, Russian Tiara, Russian Crown, Romanov Jewels, Prince Paul, Autumn Princess, King George I

Designed as twenty-six graduated cushion-cut diamonds, mounted in gold and silver, circa 1860, currently 38.0 cm long, in red leather Cartier case. Typical with jewellery from the time, the old mine cuts are mounted onto a silver backing to improve the stones colour.

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