Queen Mary's Jewels.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10765, 13 May 1911, Page 4 (Supplement)

Queen Mary's Jewels.

The Queen's taste in dress is very simple, quiet, pale, delicate colors being given the preference, and nothing outre or extreme being admitted, let the fashion of the moment be what it may. Although her jewellery is considerable, both in valne and quantity, Queen Mary has no very great love for precious ornaments as part of everyday attire, and the two things she wears oftenest are the diamond brooch given her by King George soon after her engagement to him, and the diamond necklace presented to her by Queen \ ictoria. One of her most valuable jewels, says the Girls' Own Paper and. Women s Magazine, is a chain of pearls presented to her as a wedding gift by the women of twenty-three English_ counties, far which seven thousand guineas were subscribed, and which is treasured by her, not for its intrinsic costliness, though that is great, but as a visible expression of the affection which is felt for lier by women of all classes.