THE DUCHESS' JEWELS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 261, 3 November 1928, Page 4 (Supplement)

THE DUCHESS' JEWELS.

I see that the Duchesa of York has adopted the wide flat bracelet fashion, writes a correspondent. At a dance the other night she wore two bracelets on one wrist and one on the other. On her slender arms they looked very attractive, sparkling prettily in the artificial light. One bracelet, an inch and a quarter in width, was set with amethysts on a diamond ground, while the others were studded with diamond* and pearls. The Duchess has a good many amethyst ornaments. Some of them were given to her by Queen Alexandra, and others were wedding presents from the King, but she never appears, either during the day or evening without her triple rope of pearls. The dainty Duchess, by the way, promises to become quite a good speaker. Until recently she used to do no more at opening ceremonies than repeat the usual formal sentence. Now, however; she adds a few words of her own, and her voice is becoming much more steady than it used to be in public. It is a very soft, pretty voice, and in striking contrast to those of other members of the Royal Family,, because it is pitched quite high. Princess Mary's' voice is even deeper than the I'rince of Wales', and the Queen has quite a deep voice. L(JO.