[snowflake2428]

Just my opinion as a female: The tiara is hideous. While all of the other “royals” are dripping in diamonds Victoria is wearing pearls and cameos in yellow gold. It looks cheap.

[agere_contra]

You know, you’re right. Either gold doesn’t work on TV or (more likely) it just doesn’t work with white.

Gold with an ivory dress would have been better, I guess.

[Cincinna]

I believe the Cameo Tiara was worn by her mother, at her wedding to her father, exactly 34 years ago to the day.

[La Lydia]

The tiara is a family heirloom and there was much speculation as to which of the Swedish crown's tiaras she would wear. Her mother and two of her aunts wore the one she chose. It came into the family from Queen Hortense of Holldand, daughter of Napoleon's Empress Josephine, when Queen Hortense’s niece, Princess Josephina of Leuchtenberg, married the future King Oscar I of Norway and Sweden. (father of the famous sardine King Oscar.)

"The color of this historical bridal tiara is very special; it's white: it consists of pearls, heightened with 7 cameo's who depict mythological figures. In the centre there's the crowning of love (mother and child), to where portrait-cameos of a man and a woman aim their sight. On the backside portrait-cameo's are interchanged with a godess who has a putti on her lap (caretaker) and a man with a staff (guard)."

I think it is sweet that she chose the one her mother wore. But her family has another one I think is more stunning, the Braganza tiara.

[Mentat]

The reason she wore that particular tiara is that it was a present from Napoleon of France to Desiree Clary, who was to become queen of the first Bernadotte king in Sweden in 1814. Thus, it is worn largely for historic reasons rather than estetic.