{"id":725527,"date":"2026-01-28T03:32:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T03:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/725527\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T03:32:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T03:32:19","slug":"queen-mary-stuns-in-heirloom-sapphire-in-estonia-for-a-special-touch-of-diplomatic-flair-during-the-state-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/725527\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen Mary stuns in heirloom sapphire in Estonia for a special touch of diplomatic flair during the state visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Queen Mary\u2019s quest to showcase heirloom jewels within the Danish<br \/>\nRoyal Collections continued in Estonia on Tuesday, as the Danish<br \/>\nqueen wore a nearly 200-year-old sapphire brooch as a spotlight<br \/>\npiece of her outfit.<\/p>\n<p>King Frederik<br \/>\nand Queen Mary arrived in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, for a<br \/>\ntwo-day state visit to the Baltic country on Tuesday morning. It\u2019s<br \/>\npart of a charm offensive in the Baltic States, which will see the<br \/>\nroyal couple also travel to Lithuania for a two-day state visit<br \/>\nbeginning Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The Danish royal couple arrived at the Town Hall Square in<br \/>\nTallinn and met with President Alar Karis and First Lady Sirje<br \/>\nKaris at the welcoming ceremony. They laid a wreath at the Monument<br \/>\nto the War of Independence and later visited the Memorial to the<br \/>\nVictims of Communism in Maarjam\u00e4e.<\/p>\n<p>King Frederik and Queen Mary then traveled to the Estonian<br \/>\nStatehood House for an official luncheon, and it was there that<br \/>\nQueen Mary revealed that she was wearing a 186-year-old sapphire<br \/>\nbrooch on her dress.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-lazyloaded=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"769\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/King-Frederik-and-Queen-Mary-in-Estonia-769x1024.jpg\" alt=\"King Frederik and Queen Mary in Estonia\" class=\"wp-image-216563\"  data-\/>King Frederik and Queen Mary<br \/>\nin Estonia Photo: Kongehuset \u00a9<\/p>\n<p>According to the Danish Royal Family\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kongehuset.dk\/en\/royal-collections\/jewellery\/the-flood-sapphire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a>, the Flood Sapphire<br \/>\nBrooch was created around 1840 for Queen Marie Sophie Frederikke,<br \/>\nconsort of King Frederik VI. It left the royal collections in 1872,<br \/>\nwhen Duchess Wilhelmine of Gl\u00fccksborg, their daughter, donated it<br \/>\nto raise money for flood relief in Lolland-Falster. Queen Louise,<br \/>\nconsort to King Christian IX would later repurchase the brooch and<br \/>\nleave it to Crown Princess Alexandrine, and afterwards it was<br \/>\nentrusted to the Danish Royal Family\u2019s jewel vault by either Queen<br \/>\nAlexandrine or Queen Ingrid.<\/p>\n<p>The Flood Sapphire is an emerald-cut sapphire surrounded by<br \/>\nsmall diamonds and encircled by 22 larger diamonds.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-lazyloaded=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"638\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Flood-Sapphire-1024x638.jpg\" alt=\"Flood Sapphire\" class=\"wp-image-216562\"  data-\/>Flood Sapphire Photo:<br \/>\nKongehuset \u00a9<\/p>\n<p>After lunch, King Frederik and Queen Mary met with Estonian<br \/>\nSpeaker of the Parliament, Lauri Hussar, at the Riigikogu. They<br \/>\nthen travelled to the Rakett69 Science Studios with the<br \/>\nPresidential Couple to meet with girls interested in the<br \/>\nsciences.<\/p>\n<p>In the evening, Queen Mary wore her <a href=\"https:\/\/royalcentral.co.uk\/features\/the-tiara-of-a-queen-the-diamond-diadem-worn-by-mary-of-denmark-for-her-wedding-198317\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\nwedding tiara<\/a> at a state banquet hosted by Estonian President<br \/>\nKaris at the St. Nicholas Church. The diamond tiara features<br \/>\nscroll, fleur-de-lys, and festoon design elements, and can be worn<br \/>\nas a necklace as well. It was a wedding gift from Queen Margrethe<br \/>\nand Prince Henrik, and the provenance has never been definitively<br \/>\nconfirmed. Queen Mary had the tiara altered in 2011 so that pearls<br \/>\ncould be attached to the fleurs-de-lys and and row of pearls could<br \/>\nbe added to the base.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-lazyloaded=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Queen-Mary-wears-her-wedding-tiara-at-Estonia-State-Banquet.png\" alt=\"Queen Mary wears her wedding tiara at Estonia State Banquet\" class=\"wp-image-216564\"  data-\/>Queen Mary wears her wedding<br \/>\ntiara at Estonia State Banquet YouTube screenshot \/ Fair<br \/>\nUse<\/p>\n<p>Since becoming Queen Consort, Queen Mary has delighted royal<br \/>\nwatchers with her penchant for digging heirlooms out of the jewel<br \/>\nvaults.<\/p>\n<p>Last fall on a <a href=\"https:\/\/royalcentral.co.uk\/europe\/denmark\/queen-mary-jewels-2-214925\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\nstate visit to Latvia<\/a>, Queen Mary wore <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kongehuset.dk\/en\/royal-collections\/jewellery\/the-pearl-poire-set\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Pearl Poire brooch and<br \/>\nearrings<\/a> that were belonged to a parure created for the wedding<br \/>\nof Princess Louise of Prussia and Prince Frederick of the<br \/>\nNetherlands in 1825.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-lazyloaded=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"542\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/King-Frederik-Queen-Mary.png\" alt=\"King Frederik, in a dark suit, and Queen Mary, in a navy dress with pearl brooch, talk to the President of Latvia\" class=\"wp-image-214927\"  data-\/>Kongehuset \u00a9\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>Their granddaughter, Princess Lovisa of Sweden, married Crown<br \/>\nPrince Frederik of Denmark in 1869, and received parts of the Pearl<br \/>\nPoire set on her wedding day and subsequent pieces later on. The<br \/>\nnewlyweds would later become King Frederik VIII and Queen Louise<br \/>\nand reigned from 1906 to 1912; the pearls became part of the jewel<br \/>\nvault and have been worn ever since.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-lazyloaded=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"487\" height=\"423\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Mary-of-Denmarkkk.png\" alt=\"Queen Mary of Denmark wears a tiara filled with stones brought back from Pompeii\" class=\"wp-image-208381\"  data-\/>Det Danske Kongehus<br \/>\nInstagram still\/ fair use<\/p>\n<p>Queen Mary also debuted a <a href=\"https:\/\/royalcentral.co.uk\/features\/queen-mary-wears-tiara-not-seen-for-over-a-century-with-a-link-to-vesuvius-208347\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n200-year-old golden tiara during a state visit to Finland last<br \/>\nMarch<\/a>; wearing a golden tiara created for Queen Caroline Amalie<br \/>\nin 1820 that features gemstones from Pompeii and Rome. Queen Mary\u2019s<br \/>\ngolden bracelet also dated back to the 1820s and featured gemstones<br \/>\nfound around Mount Vesuvius.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Queen Mary\u2019s quest to showcase heirloom jewels within the Danish Royal Collections continued in Estonia on Tuesday, as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":725528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[5105,7710,519,448],"class_list":{"0":"post-725527","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-royal","9":"tag-royal-families","10":"tag-royal-family","11":"tag-royals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115970621212106615","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=725527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/725528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}