DOM LOUISE TIARA

In 1886, French Princess Amélie of Orléans married Prince Royal Dom Carlos, Duke of Braganza and the heir to the Portuguese throne.
To commemorate the event,Princess Amelia's future father-in-law King Luís I, gifted
her this beautiful tirara, which became one of the favourite tiaras of the princess and the grandest piece of jewellery of the Portuguese royal family.
It has been commisioned from the Official Goldsmith of the Brazilian Imperial House and the Official Jewellers to the Portuguese Crown- Leitão & Irmão.
The tiara features more than 100 high quality diamonds set in silver and gold with a lily flower inspired design.Queen Maria Pia, Princess Amelia's mother in law, gifted her a matching diamond necklace,which mirrored the diamond tiara.Unfortunately the Portuguese monarchy was overthrown,making Queen Amelia
the last queen of Portuguese,and the royal family went into ex ile.
While on e xile, the queen wore the tiara to the wedding of her niece and nephew, Princess Anne of Orléans and Prince Amedeo of Savoy Aosta in 1927.
Following the passing away of Queen Amelia, the tiara was returned back to Portuguese,and was passed down to her godson, Duarte Pio, the current Duke of Braganza . But it took another 50 years from Queen Amelia's passing away,for the tiara to make a
grand appearance,and this grand piece remaind hidden till then.In 1995 the duke married the Portuguese bissness woman, Isabel Inês Castro Curvelo de Herédia , and the tiara of choice of the new duchess was non other than the Dom Louise tiara.
Even though the Portuguese royal family is cosidered as semi-official royals, they do
attend ceremonial events,and maintain close relationships with the european royal families.For those important events the duchess is required to wear tiaras, but her tiara of choice has mostly been limited to the smaller tiaras of the collection.
Other than on her wedding day,the duchess has worn the Dom Louise tiara only on official portraits until 2017, were she wore it for theDutch State Banquet.

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