WITH A SPARKLING JEWELLERY COLLECTION THE PLATINUM QUEEN THE STORIES BEHIND SOME OF THE MOST PRECIOUS ROYAL PIECES
She has become known as the Platinum Queen – in honour, of course, of her Platinum Jubilee as she celebrates 70 years on the throne. But as we exclusively show you over the next 12 pages, Her Majesty has had a long-standing association with platinum – jewellery, that is – for many years. Many items in the royal jewellery collection are made of the precious metal and she’s worn them in public and private during her long life and reign. And for 40 years or more they have also been loaned to younger generations of royal women, from the Princess of Wales, the Princess Royal and the Countess of Wessex to the Duchess of Cambridge and Princess Eugenie.
There are 100 days to go until the country celebrates the Queen’s reign with a glittering four-day party beginning on Thursday 2 June with Trooping the Colour and ending on the Sunday with the Big Jubilee Lunch. So when better to take you through some of the platinum pieces in her collection and the stories behind them…
BECOMING QUEEN
When the Queen descended the steps of the BOAC Argonaut Atalanta at London Airport on 7 February 1952, the day after the death of her beloved father George VI, she was naturally in full mourning. Pinned to her lapel was a diamond, platinum
