Wings of glory

This spectacular Valkyrie tiara made by Cartier and commissioned by the late Mary Crewe-milnes, Duchess of Roxburghe, above, will go on display when V&A Museum of Design, Dundee, opens next year. Inspired by the heroines of Der Ring des Nibelungen, Wagner’s opera cycle, it comprises 2,500 cushionshaped, single-cut, circular-cut and rose-cut diamonds, in a gold and silver frame. The ‘en tremblant’ wings move slightly.