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Queen Marie-Amélie's Sapphire, Diamond, and Pearl Tiara and Parure, France (1830; made by Bapst; sapphires, pearls, diamonds). Came from Hortense de Beauharnais; may have belonged to her mother, Empress Josephine. Hortense sold them to King Louis-Philippe. His wife Queen Marie Amelie (Marie Antoinette's niece) remodeled them. Now in the Louvre.
The Alba Pearl Tiara. Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart y Silva, the 18th Duchess of Alba. Cayetana may be mostly famous for her plastic surgery and her marriages, but she also has more legitimately recognized noble titles than anyone else on earth and a diamond and pearl tiara with a serious pedigree. For her first wedding in 1947, Cayetana chose to wear Eugénie's tiara, which features laurel wreath motifs and alternating upright pearls and square-cut diamonds.