{"id":307943,"date":"2026-02-20T11:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T11:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/307943\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T11:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T11:48:11","slug":"the-hectic-history-of-the-mountbatten-tiara-designed-for-an-ambassadors-wife-loved-by-a-countess-and-sold-by-a-lady","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/307943\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u2018hectic\u2019 history of the Mountbatten tiara: designed for an ambassador&#8217;s wife, loved by a countess and sold by a lady"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From here, it was later purchased by Edwina, Countess Mountbatten, in 1937, with some confusion over its origins, as the Chaumet tiara now came in a Cartier box. Nonetheless, the headpiece was soon to become one of the most worn and recognised of its time in the hands of Lady Mountbatten. An heiress in her own right, Edwina had married Lord Mountbatten in 1922, five months after their meeting. Her new husband was the son of Louis Alexander Mountbatten, Marquess of Milford Haven and Princess <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tatler.com\/topic\/victoria\" isautogenerated=\"true\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Victoria<\/a>, a granddaughter of Queen Victoria. He was uncle to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tatler.com\/topic\/the-duke-of-edinburgh\" isautogenerated=\"true\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Duke of Edinburgh<\/a> and a mentor to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tatler.com\/topic\/the-prince-of-wales\" isautogenerated=\"true\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Prince of Wales<\/a> and would later become the last Viceroy of British <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tatler.com\/topic\/india\" isautogenerated=\"true\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">India<\/a> and the first Governor General of the Dominion of India. It was during this time that Countess Mountbatten wholeheartedly devoted herself to humanitarian welfare and was frequently seen by her husband\u2019s side wearing the Mountbatten Tiara for the more formal occasions in India as well as at the Coronations of both King George VI in 1937 and Queen Elizabeth II in 1953.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From here, it was later purchased by Edwina, Countess Mountbatten, in 1937, with some confusion over its origins,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61,60,14780,80],"class_list":["post-307943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jewellery","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}