UPDATE– In September 2017, Princess Viktoria Luise of Prussia wore the Prussian Meander Tiara at her wedding to Hereditary Prince Ferdinand of Leiningen.
kHIDd0v7px- Queen Maxima and Royal Ladies #PlatinumJubilee September 20, 2017 Official wedding pictures of Hereditary Prince Ferdinand of Leiningen and Princess Viktoria Luise of Prussia. The Meander Tiara hasn’t been seen since, but will probably worn by Princess Sophie at any upcoming grand German Royal or Noble event. The Princess is the wife and consort of Georg Friedrich, Prince of Prussia, the current head of the House of Hohenzollern and the former Prussian Throne. The Meander Tiara This tiara was originally given to Queen Elizabeth II as a gift from her mother-in-law. The Prussian Meander Tiara remained publicly unworn until it was worn by the current Princess of Prussia, born Princess Sophie of Isenburg, who wore it at her Wedding Ball in 2011. The Princess of Prussia wearing the Prussian Meander Tiara /T4CkJfSWKw- The Royal Watcher March 7, 2021
In 1965, Grand Duchess Kira lent the Meander Tiara to her daughter Princess Marie-Cécile when she married Duke Friedrich August of Oldenburg, and the Tiara was also worn by another daughter, Princess Xenia, in 1973 when she married Per-Edvard Lithander. Grand Duchess Kira wearing the Prussian Meander Tiara /YjSLUJHBzw- The Royal Watcher March 7, 2021Ī post shared by Deutsches Kaiserhaus Xenia of Prussia wearing the Prussian Meander Tiara /FIgyOuGUSa- The Royal Watcher March 7, 2021 ⠀ #GreatJewelr圜ollectors #FDNotebookĪ post shared by FD GALLERY on at 5:56am PDT Another tiara from the collection of Crown Princess Cecilie sold at Sotheby’s last year for $437,500 (image 7). ⠀ The tiara she wore for her wedding is still with the Hohenzollern family and is worn by the couple's descendants (image 6). Kira had met Anderson briefly in 1952 at the urging of her mother-in-law, Crown Princess Cecilie, who believed Anderson's claim, but Kira was not convinced, and reportedly found the woman "repellent" and "not a lady". ⠀ After the war, Kira was called upon to testify in the case of Anna Anderson, the woman who claimed to be Grand Duchess Anastasia. As a staunch opponent of the Nazi Party, Louis worked with the underground against the Nazis, and as a result, the couple was arrested and imprisoned at Dachau, but were rescued by American troops in 1945. ⠀ Kira was a great granddaughter of Tsar Alexander II, and Louis Ferdinand was a grandson of the last German Kaiser (image 3) and the pretender to the abolished German monarchy. She is wearing the Prussian Meander Tiara which was made by Koch in 1905 for her new mother-in-law, Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (image 2) when she married Wilhelm, the German Crown Prince. The most notable outing of the tiara was on top of the head of Princess Anne’s daughter, the blooming bride Zara Phillips, during her 2011 wedding to Mike Tindall.#TheCoronaDiaries_FD ⠀ Grand Duchess Kira of Russia, granddaughter of the indomitable Grand Duchess Vladimir, shown here adjusting her makeup after her wedding to Louis Ferdinand of Prussia in 1938. HM The Queen would officially give the tiara to the Princess Royal in 1972, upon her engagement to Captain Mark Phillips. The austere design of the tiara was quite befitting to the young, strong-minded princess. Princess Andrew’s tiara would then be regularly lent to her granddaughter, Princess Anne.
Princess Elizabeth never wore the jewel, as only 5 years into her marriage, she would ascend to the throne and thus meaning more grander pieces at her disposal. A meander or meandros is a decorative Greek key border design this makes the tiara fitting for a Battenberg princess who wed into the Greek Royal Family in 1903. Some people speculate that it may be the Floral Aigrette Tiara now worn by the Queen of Denmark, but the design is different. The word “meander” stems from the motifs found along the band of the tiara. An Heirloom of the Baden Royal Family, the Tiara was last worn by Princess Theodora, Margravine of Baden at the Coronation of her sister-in-law, Queen Elizabeth II, in 1953. While the bride kept the original green design for her wedding day, she's since worn the royal tiara with pearls, diamonds and turquoise stones. The Meander Tiara was a wedding gift from HRH Princess Alice of Battenberg to the then Princess Elizabeth, the bride-elect of her only son Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten, in 1947. This stunning royal wedding tiara, which was reportedly designed from an existing necklace in Thailand, boasts pear-shaped emerald stones on the top that can be swapped for other gems. With the immense collection of jewels the British Royal Family has amassed through the ages, it is no surprise that they have a meander tiara in their vaults.
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