Brooch of Royal tours and Harry’s wedding

THE BROOCH worn by the Queen at yesterday’s service was the one she often wore for engagements with her husband in the early years of her reign.

The diamond and pearl brooch was inherited from her grandmother Queen Mary in 1953, and had been a wedding gift to Mary from the town of Richmond, SouthWest London, in 1893.

Called the Richmond Brooch, and made by jewellers Hunt and Roskell, it was originally set with two pearls, a round one in the centre and a drop – but the Queen removed the drop for the service.

During her tour of Australia with the Duke in 1954, the Queen wore the brooch for the opening of parliament in New South Wales, pairing it with Queen Mary’s Lover’s Knot Tiara and Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee Necklace.

More recently, the Queen wore the brooch for Harry ry and Meghan’s wed--ding in 2018.

The central element of the bride’s tiara that day was the County of Lincoln Brooch, another of Mary’s wedding presents.

The Queen wore the brooch in November 2014 for the annual Festival tiloff Remembrance at the Royal Albert Ha Hall. She also wore he her triple strand p pearl necklace for yesterday’s service –a main stay of her wardrobe for many State and less f formal occasions. The Duke of Edinburgh’s bu close friend, Lad Lady Penny Knatchbull, Count Countess of Burma, wore a traditional t diti mourning diamond fern brooch at the service.