Princess Andrew’s Meander Tiara Princess Anne The Crown Jewels Copy Fake Faux Replica Reproduction

Princess Andrew’s Meander Tiara
French c. 1900
A diamond-set tiara arranged as a stylised Greek-key pattern flanked by honeysuckle motifs and centring on a diamond surrounded by triumphal laurels. The design of the jewel is closely related to another that appears in Cartier photographic records kept in Paris. It once belonged to Princess Andrew of Greece, mother of Price Phillip, The Duke of Edinburgh. It is not known for sure who made the tiara.
This tiara was a wedding gift to then Princess Elizabeth from her mother-in-law Princess Andrew of Greece and Denmark. The Queen has never worn this item in public and it was given to Princess Anne around 1972. Princess Anne has frequently worn the tiara in public, notably during her engagement to Mark Phillips and for an official portrait marking her 50th birthday. In July 2011 the Princess Royal lent the Meander Tiara to her daughter Zara Phillips for her wedding to Mike Tindall.
Princess Andrew of Greece, mother of the Duke of Edinburgh, was born in 1885 at Windsor Castle. Born Princess Alice of Battenberg, (a granddaughter of Queen Victoria), her siblings were the 2nd Lord Milford Haven, Queen Louise of Sweden, and Lord Mountbatten of Burma. In 1903, she married Prince Andrew of Greece, one of the younger sons of King George and Queen Olga of Greece. The couple had four daughters, and a son, Prince Phillip (now the Duke of Edinburgh). Princess Andrew was exiled from Greece with her family in the 1920s, living in Paris. She suffered a nervous breakdown, and was admitted into an asylum in the 1930s, but was well enough by 1935, that she returned to live in Athens, though by then she had separated from her husband. During WWII, under Nazi occupation, Princess Andrew sheltered Jewish refugees in her house in Athens, and flew to neutral Sweden to get supplies for the Red Cross on the pretext of visiting her sister. In 1947, her son married Princess Elizabeth (now Queen Elizabeth II). In the 1950s, Princess Andrew opened an Orthodox Nursing Order, The Christian Sisterhood of Martha and Mary, shocking her mother, who exclaimed; “Who ever heard of a nun who smokes and plays canasta”. She famously wore a nun’s habit to the Coronation of her daughter in law in 1953. However, the venture eventually failed, and she had to close it down. In 1967, after a Revolution forced the Greek Royal Family out of Athens, Princess Andrew went to live with her son and daughter-in-law in Buckingham Palace, dying there in 1969. She is buried in Jerusalem.
As always this copy comes from our good friends in China at aliexpress. The store is SEP and it cost £38.33 as of December 2020. It is cubic zirconias. Its height is 4cm. It is very close to the original with a few very slight changes. Thank you to Royalty Fandom royalty.fandom.com/wiki/The_Meander_tiara and Geoffrey C Munn for help with the background.

Taken on: January 12, 2021

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