Where is the poltimore tiara today

You know the picture: Princess Margaret, lying in a bathtub, wearing nothing but a tiara perched upon her head. Taken by her husband, famed photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones, the photo was only released to the public in , four years after Margaret’s death. Equal parts coquettish and cheeky, it cemented the princess’s status as the royal family’s forever wild child.

(“Disobedience is my joy,” she once said about herself.) Eleven years later, the portrait was removed from public view. But the image remained ingrained in minds everywhere—so much so that The Crown included a scene about it in season three.

While the image’s shock value had much to do with, yes, the bathtub setting, its iconic status was achieved by the addition of the tiara: grand, glistening and, quite frankly, gargantuan.

The diadem has a rich history.

Princess margaret biography She even wore it before she was engaged for the state visit of the Shah of Iran in May The Princess of Wales, dressed in an elegant maroon polo neck and matching skirt, spoke to patients and staff at the Royal Marsden Hospital. Read more. And while this was unusual enough, there was another way Margaret broke with tradition.

Known as the Poltimore Tiara, it originally belonged to Lady Poltimore, the wife of the second Baron Poltimore. Made in by the House of Garrard in London, it’s the epitome of Victorian-era jewelry style: The diamond scrolls evoke flora, flowers, and nature. Lady Poltimore wore the fantastical creation, whose framework is comprised of both silver and gold metals, to the coronation of King George V in

The family put it up for auction in January There, it was purchased for 5, pounds by Princess Margaret.

Despite having access to the crown jewels (the Duchess of Cambridge, for example, wears tiaras lent to her by the queen) the then year-old wanted something she could call her own.

“It’s such a modern thing,” Sara Prentice, creative director at the House of Garrard, tells Vogue. “We’re finding more and more now that women are purchasing for themselves, but way back in , she chose it for herself. She must’ve loved it to do that.”

A year and a half later, on May 6, , Princess Margaret wore the tiara on the most important of occasions: her wedding to Antony Armstrong-Jones.

Now it was part of history.

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“It became the most-associated tiara with Princess Margaret,” says Prentice.

Her wedding was just its most public outing: In , for example, she donned it again for the shah of Iran’s state visit to the United Kingdom. And, although no tiara can exactly be deemed functional, the Poltimore Tiara’s design allowed it to have multiple uses.

It could transform into a necklace (which Margaret did in ) or, if one wished, 11 different brooches.