Celebs in Tiaras!

A Cleopatra-style headdress featuring a hooded cobra. I am not sure who the actress is.

A Thai headdress on an actress who I also don't know. If you know who she is, leave a comment and I can put her name in here.

Singer Katy Perry in a medieval-style crown and earring set.

Supermodel Karen Elson wearing a silver and black hair wrestlingh.

British Royal Crowns!

The Imperial State crown, with the Cullinan II in front and the Black Prince's Ruby.

The crown of Mary of Modena. It now has paste replacements for the diamonds.

Mary of Modena's diadem. It also has paste replacements for the diamonds.

The Prince of Wales gold crown. Prince Charles wore this when he was invested as Prince of Wales.

Queen Mary's Crown. There are paste replacements for the Koh-i-Noor which used to sit in the front cross and the diamond at the top cross.

The heavy St. Edward's crown that British sovereigns wear at their coronations.

Bold Diamond Tiaras

A Chaumet diamond tiara, with a central element of a fleur-de-lis.

A diamond Russian tiara-bandeau, dating from 1910.

A simple, emerald-cut diamond tiara.

A diamond and platinum mesh tiara.

A diamond necklace/tiara combination.

The parure of Queen Therese of Bavaria, made of diamonds and rubies.

Pearl, diamond, and sapphire kokoshnik-style tiara of Princess Marie-Louise of Great Britain.

A Romanov diamond tiara.

The Orange Royal Family

These pictures are from my own collection of postcards, magazines, and postage stamps.

The Crown Prince and Princess of the Netherlands.

Princess Maxima and Prince Willem-Alexander making ice cream cones.

Princess Maxima in a formal portrait marking her 40th birthday.

Princess Maxima wearing a diamond and emerald demi-paure.

Maxima at 40. She is originally from Argentina, and has mastered the Dutch language  since her marriage to the Crown Prince.

Maxima stepping out of gilded horse-drawn coach.

Crown Princess Maxima in a beautiful formal portrait.

Maxima wearing a string of diamonds as a tiara, and she has pinned diamond stars from another tiara to her blue sash.

Maxima in a large diamond tiara.

A dutch magazine marking Maxima's 40th birthday.

Stamps from the Netherlands Antilles marking the silver jubilee of Queen Beatrix II of the Netherlands.

The three daughters of the Crown Prince and Princess.

Pearl and Diamond Diadems

The grand pearl and diamond diadem of the Empress Eugenie of France, the last Empress or Queen of France, who died in 1920.

A large Russian aigrette-style tiara, with tall, feather-like diamond tendrils coming out  of the tiara base. Large brioche diamonds dangle from each tendril.

A diamond and pearl tiara that also converts into a necklace

A diamond and pearl tiara originally belonging to Princess Marina, the Duchess of Kent. It  is now in the collection of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent.

An oriental pearl and diamond Russian diadem, which went up for auction when the Communist party of Russia auctioned off the Tsarist Crown Jewels.

An oriental pearl, button pearl, and diamond tiara. I saw this tiara in a fashion shoot in a magazine, and it was placed far back on the model's head around a low bun.

Star Tiaras

 By far, my most favorite emblem in jewelry is stars, specifically diamond stars. The Empress Elisabeth of Austria-Hungary, in the 1800's, would wear several diamond stars pinned in her long, wavy brown hair. Nearly every European royal family has diamond star brooches in its collection, but it is the diamond star Tiara which seemed to be more popular in Tsarist Russia than anywhere else.

A beautiful 5 star tiara, with a white pearl at each center. Most Star tiaras are simple in design like this, with the stars sometimes set on springs so that they move with the wearer.

A simple, many-pointed star tiara, where the star can be removed from the tiara base and worn as a brooch.

A large 5-star tiara, with the stars resting on an intricate, Celtic-inspired diamond base.

Floral and Leafy Diadems

A maple leaf mourning tiara in blackened, pierced metal.

A diamond floral tiara.

A diamond leaf wreath, similar to the one worn by the Crown Princess Mathilde of Belgium.

A large sapphire and diamond floral tiara.

An asymmetrical floral diamond tiara.

A diamond rose tiara, similar to the one worn by Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother on her wedding day to King George VI.

A floral tiara, where the elements are set en tremblant, meaning that with every move of the wearer, they shake and move.

A diamond ivy leaf tiara.

A diamond lily aigrette tiara.

A diamond oak leaf wreath tiara, with diamond and pearl acorns.