With the help of a committee organized by Lady Greville, Garrard was commissioned to create a diamond tiara as a wedding present for the future Queen Mary in 1893. She later gave it as a wedding present to her granddaughter’s wedding, the future Queen Elizabeth II.
The tiara is described to be a “a diamond festoon-and-scroll design surmounted by nine large oriental pearls on diamond spikes and set on a bandeau base of alternate round and lozenge collets between two plain bands of diamonds" by Leslie Field.
Queen Elizabeth II originally wore the tiara without the base or without the pearls, and it appears on her portraits in many Commonwealth currencies.
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