Sunday, January 13, 2013
The Württemberg Empire Tiara
Photos (clockwise from top left): tiara detail; tiara detail; Queen Pauline of Württemberg; tiara detail
Today's tiara is the first strictly historical sparkler of the year: a nineteenth-century piece from the crown jewels of the former kingdom of Württemberg. In German, it's called the "Reiches Diadem," which we'll translate here roughly as the Empire Tiara.
In 1820, the widowed King
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