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#MeghansImpact - The Duchess of Sussex started the cooking/baking trend in the British Royal Family.

The Patiala Necklace

This massive bib-like Art Deco necklace featuring five rows of diamond-encrusted platinum chains and over-sized gems was created by Cartier for Maharaja Bhupinder Singh of Patiala in 1928. Weighing almost a 1000 carats, made of platinum and studded with over 2,000 diamonds - including the world's seventh largest DeBeers diamond - is probably one of the most expensive pieces of jewelry ever made.

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Royal Crown - The Great Imperial Crown of Russia . The Great Imperial Crown made in 1762 for the coronation of Empress Catherine the Great of Russia by the court jeweler J.Pauzie represents the height of creative imagination, lavish beauty and skilled workmanship. It is adorned with five thousand diamonds arranged in a splendid pattern of laurel wreaths and oak branches. The glitter of the diamonds is enhanced by two rows of gleaming pearls and the crown is topped by a huge red spinel, the second largest in the world . . . #royalcrown #royaljewelry #royalhistory #imperialcrown #empresscatherine #catherinethegreat #russianimperial https://www.instagram.com/p/B0F6IltHpNY/?igshid=1suj43aes85bp

Royal Crown - The Imperial Crown of Holy Roman Empire . Also called Crown Of Charlemagne, created in the 10th century for coronations of the Holy Roman emperors. Although made for Otto the Great (912–973), it was named for Charlemagne, the first Holy Roman Emperor . The crown is made of eight round-topped plaques of gold hinged together and kept rigid by an interior ring of iron; it is decorated with jewels and enamel in the Byzantine style. It was designed to surmount or incorporate a mitre, which was worn with the points at the sides, and therefore is crossed only by a single arch, from front to back . In the 11th century the present arch, with its cresting of small round-topped plaques, replaced the original, and a jeweled cross, meant originally to hang upon the breast, was fastened to the front plate of the crown. The rim was adorned with side pendants that have been lost . . . #royalcrown #royaljewelry #royalhistory #holyromanemperor #imperialcrown #byzantinestyle #charlemagne https://www.instagram.com/p/B0F331wH3Ad/?igshid=koi1wb8dkvpj

Royal Crown - The Imperial Crown of Brazil . The Imperial Crown of Brazil, also knows as the Crown of Dom Pedro II, was the crown made for the second Brazilian Emperor, Pedro II which was created by the goldsmith Carlos Martin in Rio de Janeiro for Dom Pedro II’s coronation on July 18, 1841 . The Crown’s frame is made of quality 18 karat gold. The Crown is set with 639 precious stones (all diamonds), and 77 pearls of 8 millimeters each. This Crown weights 1,9 kilograms, has a diameter of 205 millimeters and is 31 centimeters high. It is considered one of the most splendid works of Brazilian jewelry . . . #royalcrown #royaljewelry #royalhistory #brazilianemperor #dompedrobrazil #dompedroii #imperialcrown https://www.instagram.com/p/B0F28pbncu2/?igshid=55qmt1mdghb6