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Catherine's Jewel Vault (16/∞) ♛

↬ 'Cha Cha' Mother-of-Pearl Single Drop Earrings

Maria Black's Cha Cha Earrings have accompanied Catherine on several important engagements from foreign tours to audiences with queens since she first wore them on the Early Years Working Trip to Denmark in February 2022.

The earrings features a mother-of-pearl bead hanging from a sterling silver huggie hoop that’s plated in 22-karat gold.

The earrings have been publically worn by Catherine on a few occasions including for an audience with Queen Margrethe & Crown Princess Mary, the Platinum Jubilee Tour of Jamaica, The Big Jubilee Lunch, the Grenfell Tower Memorial Service and the Pre-Coronation visit to Soho.

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1930s/1940s Bucky and Steve Masterlist

Links Last Checked: January 31st, 2024

A Little More Light (ao3) - MacksDramaticShenanigans G, 7k

Summary: “C’mon, Stevie. There’s no way I’m lettin’ you spend the holidays all alone. Besides, Ma’s expectin’ you, and if you don’t show she’s gonna be real upset,” Bucky prods, poking his toe into Steve’s side. They’re sprawled out on Steve’s ratty old sofa, Steve perched on one end, intently focused on whatever he’s drawing in that sketchbook of his, while Bucky takes up the rest of the couch by stretching across the cushions.

Steve’s pencil stills against the page, and he sets it down, a frown tugging at the corners of his lips as he fixes a thoroughly unimpressed stare onto Bucky. “Using your Ma to guilt me into crashing your holiday celebrations is a dirty, dirty trick, Barnes.”

“How many times do I hafta tell you, you ain’t crashin’ anything. We want you there,” Bucky assures, and bends down so his head falls into Steve’s line of sight, which has dropped back down to his sketchbook. Bucky’s practically lying in his lap now, and he reaches a hand up to touch Steve’s cheek, soft and gentle. “I want you there.”

A Mother Always Knows (ao3) - readergirl1013 T, 16k

Summary: Winifred nods, a small knot of fear wending its way into her heart. He’s so…fixated on the Rogers boy. She swallows around the lump in her throat. Bucky is a good boy from an upstanding Christian family. He’s not like that. It isn’t possible - they’re raising him properly.

He’s just a confused little boy. He likes sports, and playing soldiers and cowboys with the other boys. He says all his prayers, memorized the Pater Noster, Ave Maria, and Gloria Patri, and he goes to catechism twice a week. And he’s bright, good with numbers like his father. He doesn’t try to play with his sisters’ dolls or dresses. He isn’t one of them. He can’t be.

Five times Winifred Barnes suspected her son was one of those sort, one time she knew for sure, and one more time.

Anam Cara (ao3) - Annaelle, kaiwrites, Queerily_kai M, 29k

Summary: Sarah had smiled at him and rubbed her thumb over his cheek a little. “I know that you love Bucky. I know that he’s real, and that he is your very best friend. But…” Steve had frowned in confusion a little, but had not interrupted her, because he adored his mam more than anyone else in the world, even Bucky. “…You mustn’t talk about or to him like he’s here with you in public anymore, a leanbh.”

Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen (ao3) - Laura JV (jacquez) E, 7k

Summary: Bucky Barnes and the Great Sexuality Crisis of 1938.

Carry Me Through The Pain (ao3) - LokiNeedsHugs1031 T, 2k

Summary: Pre-Serum Steve Rogers comes down with pneumonia and wonderful boyfriend Bucky takes care of him, even if it's with a fight.

Even the Darkness Has Arms (ao3) - Riprap, Riprapcap (Riprap) N/R, 15k

Summary: Bucky's in love. Steve's oblivious. You know how it goes.

fed up with hunger (ao3) - frankoceansmoonriver N/R, 10k

Summary: the one where it's 1939 and sometimes Steve thinks that having is worse than wanting.

fourth of july (ao3) - AliuIce0814 M, 7k

Summary: All of Steve's best and worst birthdays have somehow featured Bucky Barnes.

I Was Made To Love You, Darling (ao3) - MacksDramaticShenanigans G, 4k

Summary: The handprint is stark against Steve’s pale, almost translucent skin. It’s big, too, all five fingerprints wrapping around the entirety of his thin upper arm. Steve twists in front of the grimy mirror, holding his arm out at an awkward angle. He bites down on his lower lip and lifts a hand to carefully brush his long fingers over the black smudges.

His skin is buzzing, but it’s not from the marks. Nothing has happened with them since he woke up, there are no new colors dancing across his skin where they were, and he doesn’t expect there to be. Steve doesn’t know if he ever expects there to be, which is part of why he’s buzzing. Too much nervous energy coursing through his veins. He may have finally reached eighteen, but that doesn’t guarantee that he’ll ever actually find his soulmate. Or that he even has one.

Let Love Lead Us (Love is Christmas) (ao3) - Bucket_Burns G, 11k

Summary: The Christmas season will always be something special to Steve and Bucky.

Now or Never (ao3) - MoreThanSlightly (cadignan) steve/bucky/peggy E, 8k

Summary: Men are, by and large, a waste of Peggy’s time. Oh, certainly, there are a few who aren’t entirely useless, and some of them aren’t bad to look at. But she’s never been very interested in what they have to offer. She has more important things to do, like win the war.

That’s why it’s so frustrating that she can’t stop thinking about Steve. She should have better control over herself.

Steve is the only man who has ever caused her such trouble.

That is, until James Buchanan Barnes opens his mouth.

Our Beginning (ao3) - ohstars T, 167k

Summary: Set in the twentieth century, this is the story of Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes. Before they became Captain America and the Winter Solider. Before the war. Before the world put all of its weight on their shoulders.

Just two kids trying to get by in the world, and falling in love along the way.

practice makes imperfect (ao3) - wintermadethissoldier M, 3k

Summary: the one where bucky learns that steve's never kissed a girl and insists he has to practice, preferably, with bucky. 17 is an age bucky will never forget.

Sweetener (ao3) - goldheartedsky E, 5k

Summary: Bucky comes home drunk after striking out on a date.

Steve ends up being the next best thing.

That Moment Divine (ao3) - synonym4life E, 61k

Summary: “‘S okay. It don’t have to mean nothing,” Bucky said, trying to convince himself as much as Steve. “‘S just rutting. Just a bit of rutting.”

His lips were so dry, his mouth too, and his throat, but the rest of his body felt like hot languid liquid was flowing through it. Steve swallowed, licked his lips. Maybe Steve’s mouth was dry too?

One hot summer, when Bucky and Steve are fifteen, the line between their friendship and something new that Bucky can’t quite name blurs. It is only years later that the line disappears completely and Bucky can finally put a name to that something.

We Kissed Back Then (ao3) - vespertineflora T, 5k

Summary: In recovering his past, Bucky stumbles upon certain memories he once thought he'd always leave buried: like the fact that Steve and he had kissed as children, as teens, as adults... They'd been in love far longer than he'd realized.