Crownprincess Cecilies
Sapphire Pendant
This wonderful pear
shaped drop sapphire got the Princess from her husband 1906. It was
made by Friedländer the courtjeweller in Berlin, she wears the
jewel on her favourite picture of the famous painter Laszlo.
In the swedish magazine
SVENSK DAMTIDNING, in the numbers of the spring 1956, some articles
about the memories of Crown Princess Cecile of Germany (1886-1954) are
on public.
The articles mention that the Crown Princess left her jewels to her
chauffeur Mr Otto Groha.
She wrote her last
wills on May 2nd 1952 and January 29th 1954. On October 21st 1955 a
law court annulled her last will.
Mr Otto Groha became
forced by the court to return back to Prince Louis Ferdinand (1907-1994)
a diamond diadem with 15 stones of 13,9 carat and about 2300 smaller
brilliants.
Other jewels belonged
to the Crown Princess which was mentioned in the articles are
* Pear shaped drop
sapphire, she got from her husband (above)
* Famous Romanov emerald worth 300.000 swedish crowns (belonged to her
mother)
* Small bow brooch of platinum and brilliants, also from her husband
source:
spsg.de/Katalog:"Eisen,Gold und bunte Steine"
Schmuck und Juwelen des Hauses Hohenzollern
- Preussen |
Jewellery and Treasures of Prussian Kings and Queens
Der Rubinschmuck der Königin
Ludovika von Preussen | Ruby-Parure Queen Elisabeth Ludovika
of Prussia
Die Mäander-Tiara Kronprinzessin
Cecilies | The Mäander-Tiara of the Prussian Crownprincess
Saphir-Diamant-Perlen-Parure
| The Sapphire-Pearl-Diamond Parure of the Prussian Queens
Kronprinzessin Cecilie
und das Saphir-Aigrette | Sapphire Head Jewel of the Prussian
Crown-princess
Kronprinzessin Cecilie und
ihr Saphir-Tropfen | Crownprincess Cecilies Sapphire Pendant
Der Faberge-Kokoschnik der Kronprinzessin
Cecilie | Crownprincess Cecilies Faberge Tiara
The bride-tiara of the of
Prussian Princess | Die Mäander-Tiara der Kronprinzessin
als Braut-Tiara
Wedding Kira Grand Duchess
of Russia and Prince Louis-Ferdinand of Prussia
Die Hochzeit von Prinz Louis-Ferdinand von Preussen und
Grossfürstin Kira