PEARLS OF GREAT PRICE
The King has made it a custom to give pearls to his children as birthday gifts, so that they will each possess a well-matched string of graded pearls on coming of age, states an overseas writer. The pearls will not be strung for a number of years yet. The King chooses two pearls at a time. Queen Alexandra's famous rope of pearls was collected in a similar manner. It started with a matchless central pearl, a birthday gift from King Edward VII, when they were Prince and Princess of Wales. Further birthday contributors of "pearls of great price" on successive anniversaries included Queen Victoria, the late Tsar of Russia, the former Kaiser, the Shah of Persia, the Sultan of Turkey, the Emperor Franz Josef, the King of Italy, the King of Denmark (her father), and the King of the Hellenes (her brother). Two of the choicest of these gems, the sheen of which was unrivalled, were the gifts of the late Sir Ernest Cassel.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 49, 26 August 1940, Page 11
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168PEARLS OF GREAT PRICE Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 49, 26 August 1940, Page 11
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