Tiara

When troubled former US president Donald Trump visited the UK in 2019, senior women in the royal family dusted off their tiaras and sashes, but during this week’s visit from President Joe Biden, the jewellery vaults remain locked.At the…

Your embossed invitation from Smythson stationery is certainly in the mail, so it’s time to think like Catherine, Princess of Wales and plan your outfit for the coronation of King Charles III on May 6. That means finding a tiara, unless…

Camilla avoided political scandal by sticking to the family sapphires. Her next big jewellery challenge will be whether she commissions a consort crown for the coronation, following in the footsteps of the Queen Mother in 1937 or borrow…

A tiara is never worn casually. Unlike a necklace or bracelet, which can be little more than a simple rope or chain offhandedly draped around the neck or wrist, diadems are, by definition, grand. The early Greeks replaced laurel and olive…