Loan of Queen’s wedding tiara was touching gesture

IT WAS the act of a devoted granny for a beloved granddaughter whose wedding plans had been blighted by coronavirus and her father’s unsavoury connections.

To make up for the lost grandeur of a royal wedding at the Chapel Royal, St James’s Palace in May – cancelled due to the pandemic and uncertainties hanging over Prince Andrew – the Queen loaned Beatrice her own wedding tiara and one of her own jewel-encrusted Norman Hartnell gowns from the Royal Collection.

It was something extra special not given to other royal brides in recent times.they have worn tiaras of lesser significance.

Kate Middleton, a future Queen, was offered a choice of smaller, less prestigious ones, deciding on the delicate diamond Cartier Halo Tiara, for her wedding to Princewilliam.

Beatrice’s sister Eugenie kept her first choice of the Russianinspired Greville Emerald Kokoshnik for her marriage to

Jack Brooksbank, although Meghan Markle had wanted it for her wedding to Prince Harry.

For Beatrice’s hastily arranged, hideaway wedding to Edo Mapello Mozzi, the Queen showed extraordinary support and kindness by lending the exquisite Queen Mary Russian Fringe Tiara she had worn for her wedding to Prince Philip in 1947.

Created in 1919 from a diamond necklace given by Queenvictoria to Queen Mary, the Queen’s grandmother, in 1893, it carries historic interest and deep emotional attachment, suggesting that the Queen has a special bond with Beatrice.

So Beatrice, the bride who married in secret at the All Saints Chapel, near her parent’s home, had something magnificent to compensate for all she had given up.