Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images Soon after acquiring the tiara (and five years before the action of the Downton Abbey movie), Mary decided it needed some refashioning it also need a repair escape from Bolshevik revolutionaries can be hard on a stone. At the time, however, they needed money more than diamond and pearl tiaras, so they sold it to Queen Mary (who could never have enough). The Vladimir tiara made it out of Russia-possibly the last treasure to do so-and into the hands of the Grand Duchess Vladimir’s children by 1921. Whichever of those disguises were actually employed to save this Romanov jewel, one actually worked. Petersburg, where it would be safe during the Russian Revolution, and then secretly smuggled out of Russia-by British intelligence officers dressed as either workmen or old ladies, depending on the tale you believe. I’ve often said that the story of the Vladimir tiara is worthy of a James Bond movie. There is much cleaning and brushing up on protocol, but all efforts are rewarded by a suitably grand party, complete with tiaras.Īnd not just any tiaras-Queen Mary (the present Queen's grandmother) wears the storied Vladimir Tiara, which would go on to be among her granddaughter's favorites. Upstairs and down, the inhabitants of our favorite fictional British estate are thrown into an uproar by a visit from King George V and Queen Mary. At the center of the plot of the new Downton Abbe y movie is a royal visit.
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