{"id":357049,"date":"2026-03-31T16:15:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T16:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/357049\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T16:15:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T16:15:20","slug":"princess-annes-favorite-tiaras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/357049\/","title":{"rendered":"Princess Anne\u2019s Favorite Tiaras"},"content":{"rendered":"

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At 75, Princess Anne has attended her fair share of events that require her to wear a tiara. Despite being the only daughter of Queen Elizabeth and only sister of King Charles, however, she has only worn five tiaras publicly during her lifetime. As a well-known outfit repeater<\/a>, it\u2019s not surprising that she\u2019s stuck to the same jewels over the decades. Here, a guide to Princess Anne\u2019s favorite jewels:<\/p>\n

1. Princess Alice\u2019s Meander Tiara\"princessGetty Images (3)<\/p>\n

L-R: 2026, 1988, and 1970.<\/p>\n

One of the Princess Royal\u2019s most frequently worn tiaras\u2014which she sported last week at the Nigerian state banquet<\/a>\u2014is her great-grandmother Princess Alice\u2019s Meander Tiara. The diamond bandeau features a geometric Greek \u201cmeander\u201d pattern and was given to Alice upon her marriage to Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark in 1903; Alice was first photographed in it in 1914 in a series of portraits.<\/p>\n

In 1947, Princess Alice\u2014the mother of Prince Philip\u2014reportedly gave the tiara to her daughter-in-law Princess Elizabeth (soon to be Queen Elizabeth), who never wore it publicly. However, starting in the late 1960s, the Meander Tiara was given to Princess Anne, who wore it frequently.<\/p>\n

\"ZaraMax Mumby\/Indigo\/\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Zara on her wedding day.<\/p>\n

In 2011, Princess Anne\u2019s daughter Zara wore the Meander Tiara at her wedding to Mike Tindall.<\/p>\n

2. Queen Mary\u2019s Fringe Tiara\"AnneEvening Standard\/\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Princess Anne on her wedding day.<\/p>\n

On the occasion of Princess Anne\u2019s 1973 wedding to Captain Mark Phillips, she borrowed Queen Mary\u2019s Fringe Tiara<\/a>, which was created by Garrard in 1919. Queen Elizabeth, too, wore the tiara on her wedding day, as did Princess Beatrice in 2020. Anne only wore this tiara once.<\/p>\n

As T&C Editor in Chief Stellene Volandes wrote<\/a>, \u201cThe Queen Mary Fringe tiara began as a necklace given to Queen Mary by Queen Victoria\u2014one of England\u2019s most beloved Queens and one half of its most enduring and love filled marriages. Mary, as was her way, transformed it into a tiara and wore it often. She was stern, but strong.\u201d<\/p>\n

She continued, \u201cAnd it was this woman\u2019s legacy that Queen Elizabeth herself chose to telegraph when she selected the Fringe to wear at her own wedding to Prince Philip in 1947. And yes it snapped the morning of (it was originally meant to be a necklace after all) but the crisis was averted and the monarchy carried on, as did this royal marriage. The Queen\u2019s daughter Princess Anne also chose to wear it to her own wedding\u2014a clear and direct line to the official love of her own parents. (Anne\u2019s marriage to Captain Mark Phillips did not have the same luck, but no matter.)\u201d<\/p>\n

3. Festoon Tiara\"princessGetty Images (2)<\/p>\n

In 2017, left, and 1974, right.<\/p>\n

Another one of Princess Anne\u2019s frequently worn tiaras is the Festoon Tiara, also called the Diamond Festoon Tiara. It was given to the Princess Royal in 1973 by the World Wide Shipping Group. The antique tiara\u2019s origins are unknown, but it has remained in Princess Anne\u2019s personal collection and she\u2019s turned to it throughout the years.<\/p>\n

4. Aquamarine Pineflower Tiara\"PhotosGetty Images (3)<\/p>\n

Anne attending state banquets in 2025, 2019, and 2015.<\/p>\n

The Cartier Aquamarine Pineflower Tiara is another tiara belonging to Anne personally. In 1948, King George VI gave his wife Queen Elizabeth (the Queen Mother) the tiara, which features aquamarines, and she wore it twice publicly. Upon her granddaughter Princess Anne\u2019s wedding, the Queen Mother gave it to her, and Anne has worn it throughout the years.<\/p>\n

In the 90s, Anne remodeled the tiara, removing the central gem to turn it into a brooch. She also removed two aquamarines; one became a pendant, which Anne wears on a string of pearls\u2014and the other became the new center of the tiara. Notably, the Cartier Aquamarine Pineflower Tiara went on display in the Cartier Exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London in 2025.<\/p>\n

5. Halo Scroll Tiara\"PrincessMirrorpix\/\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Anne in 1969.<\/p>\n

When she was younger, Princess Anne often wore the Cartier Halo Scroll tiara, a piece now perhaps best known as Kate Middleton\u2019s wedding tiara<\/a>. King George VI (then the Duke of York) purchased the tiara, made by Cartier, in 1936 as a gift for his wife. In 1944, Queen Elizabeth gave the tiara to her daughter, then-Princess Elizabeth, for her 18th birthday. The soon-to-be Queen Elizabeth II never wore the tiara in public, instead loaning it to Princess Margaret, who notably wore it at Queen Elizabeth\u2019s 1953 coronation. In 1967, Princess Anne stepped out in the tiara for the first time, but after her wedding six years later, she never wore it publicly again.<\/p>\n

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Emily Burack (she\/her) is the Deputy Digital Editor for Town & Country, where she covers entertainment, celebrities, the royals, and a wide range of other topics. Before joining T&C, she was the deputy managing editor at Hey Alma, a Jewish culture site. Follow her @emburack on Instagram, Twitter, and other social media platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"3 min read At 75, Princess Anne has attended her fair share of events that require her to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[147814,15812,188660,2117,156,2462,111,139,69,158173,188659,147813],"class_list":{"0":"post-357049","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-collection-royal-family-news","9":"tag-content-type-news-explainer","10":"tag-contentid-5dfca737-8dd1-4588-abea-dfe1881390db","11":"tag-displaytype-standard-article","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-locale-us","14":"tag-new-zealand","15":"tag-newzealand","16":"tag-nz","17":"tag-read_time-4","18":"tag-shorttitle-princess-annes-favorite-tiaras","19":"tag-subsection-heritage"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}