Princess Eugenie wore the Greville Emerald Kokoshnik Tiara with her Peter Pilotto gown for her wedding to Jack Brooksbank today.
The heirloom bandeau-style headpiece, which dates back to 1919, was the royal bride's something borrowed, on loan from her grandmother, the Queen.
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The tiara was made by Boucheron for Margaret Greville, a society host and philanthropist, in 1919 in the ‘kokoshnik’ style, which was fashionable at the time. It boasts brilliant and rose cut diamonds pavé set in platinum, with six emeralds on either side. The tiara was left by Greville to the Queen in 1942.
The bride's hair was styled in an up-do with a center part and some volume behind the tiara. She completed her wedding jewelry with a pair of diamond and emerald drop earrings, a wedding gift from the groom.
Eugenie broke from tradition in choosing not to wear a veil as she arrived for the ceremony, allowing guests and well-wishers to see the tiara clearly as she arrived.
Eugenie had initially been expected to wear the York tiara, the same headpiece worn by her mother on her wedding day. But like Meghan and Kate before her, she was loaned a piece that has not been worn recently by other royals.
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Meghan also wore a bandeau-style tiara, which she borrowed from the Queen. Hers was a diamond filigree tiara that had been made in the 1930s for Queen Mary, the Princess of Teck. The Duchess of Cambridge, meanwhile, wore the Cartier Halo Scroll tiara down the aisle to wed Prince William, which George VI commissioned from Cartier for his wife in 1936, and was later a favorite of Princess Diana.
Princess Diana broke from tradition and chose not to wear one of the Queen's tiaras, instead wearing an heirloom from her family—the Spencer Tiara.
Tamara Abraham is a UK-based journalist and the former Managing Editor at Business of Fashion. She spent six years in New York where she launched and ran the fashion and lifestyle team at Dailymail.com. Now back in her native London, she writes on fashion, lifestyle and royals for publications including Grazia, the i Paper, and of course, BAZAAR.com.
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