96-year-old Queen of England died on September 8 and a national mourning will be held on the 19th.
When the queen is buried, she will wear two pieces of jewelry, one of which is her wedding ring when she is married. The queen's favorite jewelry in her life is the engagement diamond ring she wore with the wedding ring. This diamond ring comes from the queen's mother-in-law, Prince Philip 's miserable mother.
This ring is not only a symbol of long-lasting love, but is a precious gift left by Philip when he is in love, leaving behind for his lover. At the same time, it is also the mother-in-law's attention and love for his daughter-in-law.
In 1946, the 25-year-old Prince Philip was preparing to propose to the queen. He felt a little nervous - every good man who was about to get married would be full of longing for his married life.
At that time, Prince Philip's mother, Princess Alice, also learned about this. She was determined to give her future daughter-in-law a special gift. Unfortunately, Alice had already spent all her money at this time and gave her jewelry to the poor people who had difficulties in life. She could only remove the diamonds on her crown and make a ring for her prospective daughter-in-law.
Let's take a look together, what exactly happened to Prince Philip's miserable mother!
Prince Philip's mother, Princess Alice has a fairy tale-like name, and her background is like a little princess who comes out of a fairy tale, very noble.
She was born in 1885. Her mother was Princess Victoria, Hessen, and her father was Prince Louis from Fort Patton.
However, as soon as Alice was born, her parents encountered a bolt from the blue: such a beloved princess was born deaf. Compared to Alice's future experience, this natural deafness is nothing.
In order to enable Alice to learn to speak, her parents tried all kinds of tricks. With their efforts, Alice overcame the pain brought to herself by her innate language problems. Not only can she speak four languages, she also grew up to be a graceful girl. Although Alice was deaf, she had a delicate heart, and compared with the noble women around her, she was no different.
1902, 17-year-old Alice met Andrew, the prince of Greek . Andrew fell in love with Alice at first sight and asked to marry her. In this way, the princess married the prince but did not live the life in fairy tales.
First of all, Andrew was forced to go into exile overseas. He and Alice had 5 children. At this time, Prince Philip was still a little baby.
Secondly, in foreign countries, Prince Andrew gradually exposed his scumbag nature. He ignored his family and let the family fall into trouble. Moreover, even though the family was so poor that it could not be blamed, Andrew cheated on finding a lover, regardless of the life or death of his wife and five children.
Alice's mental state was not very good, and coupled with the stimulation of Andrew's cheating during marriage, Alice sometimes became mentally ill.
In short, Princess Alice has gone from a noble princess who has no fingers to a housewife in trouble, trying hard to pull up five children.
1930, Philip was only 9 years old, and Alice was sent to a mental hospital by her husband because of mental disorders. Six years later, she regained her freedom. However, she has since been away from family life and no longer lives like a normal person, but chooses to live alone.
In the difficult years, the dowry jewelry that Alice brought from her parents' home was basically pawned, and changed from elegant and noble jewelry to the money needed to maintain a normal life. In addition, Alice also gave the money from the pawn to the poor people around her. She was kind-hearted and reluctant to see others suffer.
In 1946, Alice gave Prince Philip the only two remaining crowns, hoping that her son could marry the bride smoothly. One of the crown's headdresses was a silver hollow design, inlaid with dazzling polyhedral diamonds, as elegant as a bouquet in the jungle, and the beautiful silver color was enough to illuminate the night sky.
Alice, who was in the limelight when she was young, once used this crown with silver pearl earrings and diamond rings to take portraits. Her wool curly hair is like a fine silk, highlighting the nobility of the crown.
And with the generous gift of my mother, this crown also came to Prince Philip.
Prince Philip couldn't help but feel very happy. He dismantled the crown and selected a huge and beautiful gem from the crown. With the help of jewelry merchant Anterobles, he made a brilliant diamond ring and sent it to the queen as a wedding gift.
There is also a crown, and Alice gave it to the queen as a gift for meeting. It can be said that as a mother-in-law, Alice is very generous to the queen. In order to get her son to marry a wife, she took out all the two remaining crowns under the box.
1947 On the happy day between the Queen and Prince Philip, the Queen was wearing a white wedding dress, a silver laurel on her head, and holding a white bouquet in her hands, staring at her lover affectionately. This time she stared at her life.
In the subsequent 74 years of marriage, the queen always carried this engagement ring with her, and it became a classic that will never change in her. At the same time, the queen has always been grateful for her mother-in-law's generosity to her.
In 2017, when the Queen celebrated her platinum wedding with Prince Philip, she wore this beautiful diamond ring on her hand and used it to match it with a white dress.
At the same time, everyone will also find that at the Queen's platinum wedding ceremony, the Queen continued her favorite outfit and implemented the "one diamond and one bead" jewelry model. is also inlaid with a white pearl earring on her earlobe.
This pair of pearl earrings is also one of the only two or two jewelry that the queen brought to the grave when she was buried. The Queen prefers pearls because among the gorgeous gems, it appears low-key, simple and powerful.
No matter what occasion, you can always see the queen wearing such pearl earrings. For example, in London, England in July 2017, the queen wore a beautiful green floral dress to receive guests from afar.
Light green florals have a low-key pastoral style, and she embellished a pair of simple and beautiful white pearl earrings on her earlobes, which set off a noble style.
In 2009, when the Queen took a photo with the former first lady of the United States, Michelle , she also wore a pair of round and jade-like white pearl earrings, and also paired with a white pearl necklace . The white pearls and pink fresh-style skirt were matched with a unique charm.
Perhaps for the queen, as the "girl of heaven" in the royal family, she never lacks the symbol of beauty and love, and she never lacks money, wealth and prosperity jewelry, but she does not value them much.
The beauty is easy to pass away, and jewelry will change their owners from generation to generation, but only the love and family affection that once existed will never be erased, and will always bloom naturally.
So when the burial is buried, the queen will choose to use two such jewelry as her own burial. This is also a symbol of her longing for life. Great love is silent, so touching.
