Not all royal jewels are inherited from former queens or tokens of love from parents or partners. In 1942, Dame Margaret Greville bequeathed her impressive collection of jewels to her close friend the Queen Mother, and many of the pieces became popular with both the Queen Mother and the queen. This pair of earrings is thought to have been designed to show off as many different modern cuts of diamond as possible and was among the wedding presents given to the queen by her parents when she married in 1947. Each earring has 16 diamonds including pear-shaped pendants suspended from a stem of half-moon-, trapeze-, square-, baguette-, baton-, and emerald-cut stones.
