All the Queen's Most Impressive Earrings

These impressive pieces were inherited by the queen's great-grandmother Princess Mary Adelaide from her aunt the Duchess of Gloucester. The original tops of the earrings were made up of a pearl surrounded by diamonds and were detachable, however Queen Mary made the separation permanent when she gave the cluster tops to her granddaughter Princess Elizabeth (now the queen.) Queen Mary had the remaining drops suspended from a pair of solitaire diamonds, which her granddaughter inherited in 1953.