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On Friday night, Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen was glittering with jewels, together with a pair of tiaras worn by Danish princesses.
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Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary have been joined by Princess Benedikte as they hosted a conventional dinner for members of the federal government and members of the Danish and European parliaments at Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen. Queen Margrethe II of Denmark is often the host of those dinners, and he or she was initially scheduled to attend this one, however she examined optimistic for COVID on her return from Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral earlier this week.
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Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary have been elegant of their gala apparel, with Mary in a contemporary pink night robe with a one-shoulder neckline. Each wore the insignia of the Order of the Elephant. Frederik additionally wore the neck badge of the Order of the Dannebrog, whereas Mary wore her mother-in-law’s Royal Household Order. (We mentioned the British Royal Household Orders intimately right here yesterday. The women of the Danish royal household, just like the Brits, put on these household orders, as do royal girls in Sweden, Norway, Thailand, and Tonga.)
Mary additionally added some acquainted jewels: the all-diamond setting of her marriage ceremony tiara, plus her trendy diamond fringe earrings.
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Mary’s robe has been in her closet for greater than a decade. She wore it in the summertime of 2011 for the princely marriage ceremony reception in Monaco. On that event, she additionally wore her marriage ceremony tiara, pairing it with items from the Danish Ruby Parure.
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The earrings, reportedly an public sale buy, have been in Mary’s jewellery field for at the very least six years. She wore them lately in Could throughout Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s go to to Denmark.
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Right here’s one other have a look at Mary’s ensemble and jewels. She additionally wore a diamond and gold bangle on her proper wrist and rings on each palms.
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Princess Benedikte selected certainly one of her favourite colours, purple, for her gala costume for the dinner. The robe featured a light-weight purple prime with a patterned skirt in shades of purple and inexperienced. She additionally wore the insignia of the Order of the Elephant and the Order of the Dannebrog, plus her late father’s Royal Household Order.
With the robe, she wore diamonds and amethysts, together with her Floral Birthday Tiara (an eighteenth-birthday current from her mother and father, King Frederik IX and Queen Ingrid), a diamond necklace and earrings, and an amethyst brooch.
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Benedikte has one of many nicest units of amethyst jewels in any European royal assortment. She inherited the demi-parure from her mom, Queen Ingrid, in 2000. Above, she wears the necklace from the set for her sister’s Ruby Jubilee banquet in 2012.
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Benedikte additionally wore an attention-grabbing gold bracelet on her proper wrist, plus rings on each palms. I’d like to get a greater have a look at that bracelet!
