Jewels: Diamond Medallion Brooch

During the Belgian state visit to Lithuania this week (October 2022) Mathilde was seen wearing a beautiful new brooch. 

 

New to her collection that is, because it wasn't made yesterday. The medallion style diamond brooch has a central sapphire and dates from around 1910. 

It was sold at auction at Sotheby's London in 2018. Designed as a ribbon bow with suspending laurel wreaths and set with rose diamonds and an oval sapphire, it is signed Confalonieri, in a case stamped Confalonieri.

This brooch is the latest in a series of new jewellery acquisitions for Queen Mathilde (and no doubt for her daughters, and one day also for her daughters-in-law) that was long overdue. For twenty years Mathilde had been repeating the same meagre jewellery set, the poorest of all royal courts.

So glad the royal family is finally investing in a larger collection. Now let's hope for a family foundation that keeps all these baubles safely together for the good of generations to come!

In 2023 Crown Princess Elisabeth wore this brooch for the first time.