Tuesday, May 21, 2013

The Flame Tiara



Photos (clockwise from top left): tiara detail; Princess Shams of Iran; tiara detail; tiara detail; tiara detail


When the last shah of Iran was crowned as the country's emperor in 1967, the ladies of the imperial family went on a tiara shopping spree. One of the tiaras commissioned especially for the occasion was this emerald and diamond piece, the tiara of Princess Shams.



Shams, who was

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