All the Queen's Most Impressive Earrings

Much of the queen's jewelry collection is courtesy of her grandmother Queen Mary, who did a fair bit of tinkering with these impressive diamond studs. Originally, the centerpieces were a pair of diamond solitaires that Mary received as a wedding present from Sir William Mackinnon, but she later had them replaced with a different pair of cushion-cut solitaire diamonds that were a wedding gift from the Bombay Presidency. The surrounds are made up of tiny milligrain and pavé diamonds, and the current queen inherited them upon her grandmother's passing in 1953.