The story behind Queen Maxima's legendary diamond tiara:
This wasn't the Stuart Diamond's first trip to the U.K.: Queen Juliana also wore it on her state visit in 1972. If you're wondering why it's caused such a stir, the diamond has quite the—starting with Queen Mary II's order that it not be cut into two diamonds, as was common practice at the time, but maintain its full size, when she and her husband King William III purchased it in 1690.
Alas, the diamond would only be in Queen Mary II's possession for a few years: She died from smallpox in 1694, and upon her husband's death in 1702, it was returned to the Netherlands, as it was thought to once be the property of the House of Orange. It wasn't long, though, before it returned to England, when the French army invaded the country, leading its owner, Prince Willem V, to seek asylum in the U.K., where he and his wife were informed that it was 39.75 carats.
Now that the tiara is in the hands of the Queen of the Netherlands—who is the Netherlands' first queen consort to have been born as a commoner, as well as outside of Europe—Queen Maxima has been putting it to good use; she also wore it this past May, on a visit to Luxembourg. (Though that's not to say she's forgotten the rest of her extensive collection: Later that month, she
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