Overview
- The Princess of Wales wore the seldom-seen Strathmore Rose Tiara at a Buckingham Palace state banquet for South Korea in November 2023.
- The Queen Mother received the diamond floral piece with five roses as a 1923 wedding gift from the Earl of Strathmore and was last photographed in it in the 1930s, according to The Court Jeweller.
- The appearance was the tiara’s first public outing in roughly a century, making Kate only the second person publicly to wear it and marking just the fourth tiara of her royal life.
- Queen Elizabeth II never wore the heirloom during her reign, and the jewel is part of the royal collection typically held in the vaults.
- This week’s retrospectives emphasize expert readings that cast the choice as a tribute to King Charles and a signal of continuity, with any involvement by the King described as interpretation rather than a palace-confirmed fact.