“As Philip was marrying a future monarch, the engagement ring he chose needed to be a significant piece. His mother Princess Alice came to his rescue and gave him one of the tiaras that she had received as a wedding present half a century earlier. It was a diamond-and-aquamarine tiara given to Alice by Tsar Nicholas I and Tsarina Alexandra of Russia. Alexandra was Alice’s aunt; Nicholas was a first cousin of the groom, Prince Andrew.
The tiara was dismantled to make the three-carat solitaire with five smaller diamonds on either side set in platinum. Philip designed it himself with jeweller Philip Antrobus.”
Prince Philip Revealed by Ingrid Seward
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