Westminster marriage ceremony followers rejoice! We lastly know what tiara Olivia Henson is carrying as she ties the knot with Hugh Grosvenor, Duke of Westminster, at Chester Cathedral this afternoon.
And what does the bride of the nation’s richest man beneath 40 put on as she marries into the Grosvenor household, a dynasty that dates again nearly half a millennium? A bit of household historical past: the Fabergé Myrtle Leaf Tiara.
The attractive piece, says The Court docket Jeweller, was commissioned in 1906 for the marriage of Lord Hugh Grosvenor and Woman Mabel Circhton. Based on the Royal Watcher, the diamond-set tiara is ‘composed of two sprays of myrtle leaves and berries, with stalks of engraved pink gold, and leaves in a rubbed-over silver setting.’ A gesture to the Greek custom of myrtle leaves being sacred to Aphrodite, goddess of magnificence, the Fabergé tiara is a becoming selection for the bride-to-be.
Lord Hugh and Woman Mabel’s daughter-in-law, Sally Perry, wore the Myrtle Leaf tiara when she married the 4th Duke of Westminster on 11 April 1945, and the piece was donned by her successor, Viola Lyttelton throughout her marriage ceremony to Robert Grosvenor the subsequent yr. Over 80 years later, her grandson, Hugh Grosvenor, seventh Duke of Westminster will watch on as his bride, Olivia, wears the household’s favorite tiara down the aisle.
Extra lately, the Myrtle Leaf Tiara was worn by Woman Tamara Grosvenor, the Duke of Westminster’s older sister, when she married Edward van Cutsem in 2004. The late Queen Elizabeth noticed Woman Tamara carrying the Fabergé treasure of the Grosvenor vault as she walked down the aisle at Chester Cathedral 20 years in the past.