THE BRACELET THAT CHARMED MONARCHS
QUEEN Victoria’s Bracelet, made with large diamonds, was originally designed for her in 1838 when she was 19. She wore it for the formal set of photographs, taken by Alexander Bassano, to commemorate her Golden Jubilee in 1887.
It then passed to her daughter-in-law Queen Alexandra, who wore it to her coronation at Westminster Abbey in 1902. It was bequeathed to Queen Mary, and then to her daughter-in-law, Elizabeth, who wore it for a portrait taken in 1948. When our current Queen inherited the bracelet, she also chose to wear it at her most formal events, including a state visit to Germany in 1965, a visit to Malta in 1967, a state visit to Germany in 1978, and a state banquet in 2012.