Vietnamese President Tô Lâm and his wife, Ngô Phương Ly, are paying a state visit to Denmark at the invitation of King Frederik and Queen Mary. On the evening of October 19, the King and Queen hosted a state banquet at Christiansborg Palace in honour of the presidential couple. Also in attendance was Crown Prince Christian.
At the state banquet, Queen Mary wore Queen Alexandrine’s sapphire jewel in its new design for the first time. The jewel was acquired by the Royal Collection and redesigned in close collaboration with the Queen. It was originally presented as a wedding gift to the future Queen Alexandrine on the occasion of her marriage to the future King Christian X in 1898.
Since then, the jewel has been worn by several generations of the royal family. Working closely with the Royal Collection and jewellery designers Diana Holstein and Hanan Emquies, Queen Mary helped give the jewel a new, fully reversible design, allowing it to be worn as a tiara, a necklace, or a brooch.
The Russian Sapphire Tiara, as it was known before its redesign, was sold at auction in 2018. It is adorned with eight Ceylon sapphires totalling 33 carats, as well as numerous diamonds. The tiara became part of the Royal Collection in 2024.
For the gala dinner, Queen Mary also reimagined a two-piece gown by Jesper Høvring, adorned with pearls and sequins, which she first wore in 2014 at the Bambi Charity Awards in Berlin. She paired a silk satin skirt by Oscar de la Renta with an asymmetrical, pearl-embellished bodice designed by Jesper Høvring.
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