#duchess of aosta

[isadomna]

"Be humble and charitable. Disregard human riches which by a stroke of adverse fortune can be lost from one moment to another. Love virtue and love study. They are the greatest aids in life. Learn to do good for good's sake, never for vain glory."

- Carlo Emanuele dal Pozzo to his daughter Maria Vittoria

"She has a face with pronounced and beautifully correct features, the sparkle in her eyes is special and her penetrating gaze, her voice is sweet and affectionate, and her conversation is instructive and entertaining, and her presence inspires, along with the deepest respect, the most affectionate sympathy. Although we have all heard about the great qualities that adorn her, reality exceeds our hopes and we all left captivated of what would be the Queen of Spain."

(Tiene un rostro de rasgos pronunciados y bellamente correctos, el brillo de sus ojos es especial y su mirada penetrante, su voz es dulce y cariñosa, y la conversación instructiva y amena, e inspira su presencia, al par que el más profundo respeto, la más afectuosa simpatía. Aunque todos hemos oído hablar las grandes cualidades que la adornan, la realidad supera nuestras esperanzas y todos salimos prendados de la que había de ser la Reina de España.)

- Víctor Balaguer writes about Maria Vittoria

"In Spain I only wanted one thing: to do my duty, and I will always keep a good and sad memory of her. Good, because there are very esteemed people there whom I will never forget, and sad, because Spain did not find with us the tranquility and prosperity that we wanted to give her."

(En España no deseé más que una cosa: cumplir con mi deber, y de ella conservaré siempre un bueno y un triste recuerdo. Bueno, porque hay allí personas muy estimables a las que nunca olvidaré, y triste, porque España no encontró con nosotros la tranquilidad y la prosperidad que deseábamos darle.)

- María Vittoria dal Pozzo to Spanish friend

Maria Vittoria dal Pozzo committed herself for all her life (alas short, she died at only twenty-nine years old as a result of tuberculosis) in countless works of assistance in favor of the poor and the dispossessed so much to be remembered as "The Queen of Charity".

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Prince Luigi Amedeo Giuseppe Maria Ferdinando Francesco of Savoy, Duke of the Abruzzi Margherita Maria Teresa Giovanna of Savoy, Queen consort of Italy Princess Hélène Louise Henriette, Duchess of Aosta Prince Umberto Maria Vittorio Amedeo Giuseppe of Savoy, Count of Salemi

Italian vintage postcard

[tiarascrowns]

Magnificent and Historic Natural pearl and diamond tiara/necklace

"One of the most important tiaras to appear at auction in recent years, this royal tiara dates to the second half of the 19th century. Steeped in the rich history of the House of Savoy, this tiara hails an extraordinary provenance. Likely to have been presented to Maria Vittoria dal Pozzo in 1867 as a wedding gift on the occasion of her marriage to Amedeo of Savoy, Duke of Aosta, later elected King of Spain as Amadeo I (1870- 1873), the tiara, which has remained with the family for over 150 years, is believed to have been created by Musy Padre e Figli – Court Jeweller of Turin, and one of the oldest goldsmiths in Europe.

Composed of graduated scroll motifs set with cushion-shaped, circular- and single-cut diamonds, framing eleven slightly baroque drop-shaped natural pearls, the jewel has more recently been seen worn as an elegant necklace.

The tiara is designed as a succession of eleven graduated scroll motifs, each composed of a natural pearl surrounded by old cut diamonds. The surmount rests on a detachable band composed of cluster and bar motifs set with cushion-shaped diamonds. The scroll motifs are detachable and may be adapted and worn as a necklace. The tiara, which was created by Musy, belonged to Maria Vittoria Carlotta Enrichetta Giovanna dal Pozzo della Cisterna (1847-1876), Duchess of Aosta and Queen of Spain."

Sotheby's

[tiaramania]

Any tiara predictions for all the upcoming state banquets? Hoping for Queen Fabiola’s Spanish Wedding Gift Tiara on Queen Mathilde🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼

@potofhoneypieceofstardust asked: Hello! Do you have any tiara predictions/wishlists for the upcoming state banquets?

Sorry, this is cutting it close!

Luxembourg to Belgium

Like you I really want to see Queen Fabiola's Spanish Wedding Gift Tiara. I would prefer the wreath version with aquamarines but I will take any proof that the tiara still exists and belongs to the royal family. Realistically, Queen Mathilde will probably wear the full version of the Nine Provinces Tiara.

I want Princess Astrid to wear the Savoy-Aosta Tiara because every time she wear's Queen Elisabeth's Diamond Bandeau Tiara I lose a little hope that it will remain in the main line of the family.

I'm sure Grand Duchess Maria Teresa will wear the Belgian Scroll Tiara because that's the only tiara she wears anymore and it has the Belgium connection.

Spain to the Netherlands

I want Queen Letizia to wear Queen Ena's Diamond & Pearl Tiara because she doesn't wear it enough but she will probably wear the Fleur de Lys.

I always love Queen Maxima in Queen Emma's Sapphire Tiara so I will choose that.

For Princess Catharina Amalia I'm going with Queen Juliana's Aquamarine Tiara because I'm a little surprised she hasn't worn it yet given how fond she seems of aquamarines.

I hope we get good photos of Queen Beatrix and Princess Margriet because the focus will surely be on Amalia. For Beatrix I'm going with the Laurel Wreath Tiara and for Margriet the Sapphire Necklace Tiara.

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Her Royal Highness the Dowager Duchess of Cologne (1765-present)

Prince Louise of Norden was born in 1765, merely a year after her parents Karl Duke of Norden and Helene of Vasa had welcomed twin girls. Louise was christened as Louise Giselle Marie Helene Agnes at the Brunsbuttel Palace Chapel with Princess Adelaide of Norden, King Charles Gustaf III of Vasa, Catherine Queen of Wardenburg, and Alexander Duke of Salem as her godparents. Throughout her childhood Louise spent her time with her older sisters Maria Theresa and Paulina at Schloss Bentswich and the Brunsbuttel Palace. Louise would later be joined by two more younger sisters, Princess Elisabeth and Princess Viktoria. Louise grew up to become a skilled painter and sculptor, having converting a private sitting room in the Brunsbuttel Palace to become her art studio. The young Princess was often rebellious against her mother and heavily objected to marriage. After the death of her older sister Maria Theresa, and Paulina’s brief residence at the Portian court, Louise became one of the senior ladies at court. Louise loved the attention of being the leading lady of court and threw several balls at her father’s newly acquired summer palace, Schloss Lutzow. Louise was courted by Prince Ludwig of Lubeck and Prince Frederick of Darmstadt in 1782 but her mother rejected them and found them unsuitable. In 1782, Louise was married to Alexander Wilhelm II, Duke of Cologne. Louise initially resented her mother for this forced engagement but upon meeting Alexander Wilhelm in person before their marriage she found him agreeable. In 1783, they were married in a grand ceremony at the Cologne Palace Chapel. Louise and Alexander settled in the Cologne City Palace under the watchful eye of her mother-in-law, Mariana Dowager Duchess of Cologne, formerly Princess of Aosta. Mariana strongly disliked her daughter-in-law and openly detested her. Mariana shunned Louise from court and rarely invited her to gatherings. Louise and her husband initially had a great attraction towards each other but this dwindled away to become a relation of tolerance. Louise would give birth to 5 children who survived adulthood including Princess Helena (1783), Prince Philipp August future Duke of Cologne (1785), Prince Ludwig of Cologne (1786), Princess Amelie of Cologne future Crown Princess of Vasa (1791), and Prince Karl of Cologne (1793). Louise’s mother-in-law Mariana took Helena and Philipp to raise herself and hardly let her Louise alone with them until her death in 1786. Louise preferred to raise her children away from the splendor of the court in Cologne and purchased the Mecklenheim Castle as a retreat. Louise and her husband raised her children as devout Peterans with their daughter Helena becoming the Princess-Abbess of St.Mary in 1802. Louise often had her children dine with the children of servants and gave away their old clothes and toys to charity. Louise’s humility would lead to her son taking on these aspects of his mother when he would become Duke. In 1798, Alexander Wilhelm died and Philipp August became the new reigning Duke of Cologne. Louise was devastated from her husband and spent her mourning in the comfort of her mother Helene and her aunt Adelaide. Shortly after her husband’s death, her two youngest children Amelie and Karl who were 7 and 5 years old became sick with tuberculosis which caused Louise to become even more depressed. Louise with the help of her mother and aunt nursed the children back to health. Following this series of traumatic events Louise rarely returned to the court in Cologne and remained at the Mecklenheim Castle which she used as a dowager residence. In 1805, Louise’s eldest son, Philipp August married Princess Beatrice of Holbein at the Cologne Palace Chapel. Louise unlike her own mother-in-law, treated Beatrice with respect and loved her like her own daughter. Louise often met with Beatrice and invited her at Mecklenheim Castle. Louise was always by Beatrice’s side during her two pregnancies in 1807 and 1809 which resulted in the births of Joseph Henry Hereditary Duke of Cologne and Princess Elisabeth Charlotte. Louise also saw the marriage of her daughter Princess Amelie to Crown Prince George Adolphus of Vasa in 1808. Louise currently still resides at the Mecklenheim Castle with her youngest son Prince Karl of Cologne. Her eldest son Philipp August, his family, and her second song Prince Ludwig reside at the Cologne City Palace. 

[tiny-librarian]

Royal Birthdays for today, November 20th:

Maximinus II, Emperor of Rome, 270

Taizong of Song, Emperor of China, 939

Fasilides, Emperor of Ethiopia, 1603

Tipu Sultan, Ruler of Mysore, 1750

Margherita of Savoy, Queen of Italy, 1851

Maria Letizia Bonaparte, Duchess of Aosta, 1866

Alexandra of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, Countess of Pfeil, 1970

Sofia, Princess of Bulgaria, 1999

Umberto, Prince of Bulgaria, 1999

Theodora, Princess of Liechtenstein, 2004

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The Duchess of Aosta attends the christening of the Prince of Naples at the Quirinal Palace, 1937.

[gogmstuff]

ca. 1898 Duchess Hélène of Aosta, shortly after the birth of her first son. From hmn.wiki/ru/Princess_Hélène_of_Orléans 1280X1974.

[lisabrueckner]

Napoleonic room

In the room are collected works directly related to the Napoleonic period, of which Giovanni Battista Sommariva was a protagonist, at first as a man of government, and then as an art collector.

The portraits of some members of Napoleon's family are flanked by a series of prints of the Fast, in other words the story of Bonaparte's deeds in peace and war, from the first Italian campaign of 1796 to the victory of Friedland in 1807 against Tsar Alexander I of Russia.

The engravings reproduce a series of monochrome paintings created by the painter Andrea Appiani in the early nineteenth century for the Palazzo Reale in Milan, which was destroyed during the bombings of the Second World War.

From the Royal Palace of Turin comes the chest of drawers of Giuseppe Maria Bonzanigo, one of the greatest Italian cabinet-makers of the eighteenth century, built in 1789 for the apartment of the Duchess of Aosta.

The artistic taste of the Napoleonic era is reflected in the two large porcelain vases "à fuseaux" produced in Paris around 1815-1830 and decorated with motifs inspired by antiquity, echoing the models of the imperial manufacture of Sevres.

[theroyalwatcher]

Duchess of Aosta’s Musy Pearl Tiara | Queen Margherita’s Pearl Bracelet Bandeau | Queen Elisabeth of Belgium’s Diamond Bandeau | Pearl and Diamond Ivy Wreath Tiara | Queen Marie Jose’s Sapphire Necklace | Princess de Réthy’s Cartier Flower Tiara

[sonjatwogreyhounds]

Sua Altezza Reale la Duchessa Elean d'Aosta Princess Hélène of Orléans (French: Princesse Hélène Louise Henriette d'Orléans; 13 June 1871 – 21 January 1951) was a member of the deposed Orléans royal family of France and, by marriage to the head of a cadet branch of the Italian royal family, the Duchess of Aosta. the #sighthound #bulletin

[roehenstart]

Princess Irene, Duchess of Aosta.

She was the fifth child and second daughter of King Constantine I of Greece and his wife, the former Princess Sophie of Prussia. She was a member of the royal families of Greece and Italy. From 1941 to 1943 she was also officially Queen Consort of Croatia.

[isadomna]

Queen Maria Vittoria of Spain's Pearl Necklace Tiara

The headpiece belonged to the House of Savoy, and is thought to have been created by the court jeweller Musy for Maria Vittoria dal Pozzo on the occasion of her marriage in 1867 to Prince Amadeo, Duke of Aosta, the second son of King Vittorio Emanuele II of Italy.

In 1870 her husband became the King of Spain, making her Queen consort of Spain. Maria Vittoria was known to talk with everyone and was often praised for her intelligence. She developed an interest in her adopted country and spoke Spanish fluently. Maria Vittoria founded a school for the children of washerwomen and an orphanage. She also spent plenty of her private fortune on charitable donations.

The country remained unstable under their rule. They were the victims of an attempted assassination attack. In 1873 Amadeo I abdicated the Spanish throne. They were now no longer King and Queen. They returned to Italy as the Duke and Duchess of Aosta. The political upheaval, combined with the effects of three pregnancies and births, proved too much for Maria Vittoria's health. Suffering from tuberculosis, she died in 1876, in the coastal city of Sanremo. She was only 29.

Precisely what happened to the diamond and pearl tiara after Maria Vittoria's death remains unclear. The piece was almost certainly inherited by one of her three sons. Because the wife of the eldest son, the Duke of Aosta, never wore the tiara, that historians assume that it must have gone to one of her other sons, either the Count of Turin or the Duke of the Abruzzi, both of whom died without descendants. It is known that King Umberto II of Italy bought the jewel from one of his cousins to prevent this historic piece from leaving the family collection.

The jewel is composed of graduated scroll motifs set with cushion-shaped, circular- and single-cut diamonds, framing eleven slightly baroque drop-shaped natural pearls. The central pearl is supported by a rose diamond mount. The detachable base of the tiara is composed of cluster and bar motifs set with cushion-shaped diamonds. When the base is removed, the top of the tiara can be worn separately as a necklace. (x)

[royalmotherhood]

Maria Vittoria, Duchess of Aosta, nee Maria Vittoria dal Pozzo, with her eldest son, Emanuele Filiberto. 

[tiaramania]

Duchess of Aosta’s Emerald Tiara

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[thepompandcircumstance]

HRH Princess Irene of Greece and Denmark, Duchess of Aosta wearing her Diamond Lozenge Tiara. 

From 1941-1943, she was Queen consort of Croatia, a puppet state of then fascist Germany and Italy.