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Video: Magnificent crowns of the Miss Universe contest and their beautiful owners
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
One of the most spectacular beauty contests is the Miss Universe pageant. It is traditionally held at the end of the year. For quite a long time, it was founded by the current US President Donald Trump. The competition ends with the most exciting ceremony - when the winner is announced and a magnificent shining diamond crown is put on the head of another beauty. During the long history of the Miss Universe contest, the design of the main jewelry has changed several times. But the most unique and expensive is the first crown, which is directly related to the Russian Empire.
After a 17-year hiatus, the Miss Universe pageant was held in California in 1952. Its winner, a schoolgirl from Finland, Armi Kuusela, was presented with a truly royal gift - a crown that previously belonged to the imperial court of the Romanovs.
The history of this crown deserves special attention, it is very "offensive for the state" …
History of the Imperial Crown
This crown, made in 1884 for the wedding day of Sergei Alexandrovich, the youngest son of Alexander II, has since been included in the wedding set of brides of the reigning House of Romanov.
She crowned the head of Alexandra Feodorovna, who married Nicholas II in November 1894.
The last to wear it was the Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna in 1908, when she was married to Prince Wilhelm of Sweden.
In her memoirs, she wrote: “”.
The crown is encrusted with over 1,500 pure diamonds, with a total weight of 300 carats.
In 1926, the Bolsheviks sold this crown, believing that it had no artistic value. In 1966, a wealthy American bought it at Sotheby's. And today the crown of the brides of the House of Romanov adorns the Icon Room of the Washington Private Museum on the Hillwood estate.
Other crowns
In 1953, Frenchwoman Christian Martel received a simple bronze crown without any precious stones.
And from 1954 to 1960, the winners of the competition were awarded the Star of the Universe crown worth $ 500,000. It was made of platinum and gold and adorned with a thousand pearls, white and black.
Over the next two years, 1961 and 1962, they used a different crown with rhinestone crystals.
In 1963, especially for this competition, the famous American jewelry house Sarah Coventry made an exclusive tiara decorated with scattering of diamonds with a female silhouette in the center. This beautiful crown has served for 38 years.
From 2002 to 2007, a $ 250,000 phoenix crown shone on the heads of the winners, its shape resembling the fluffy tail of a fabulous bird. It was created by the Japanese jewelry house Mikimoto and is encrusted with 500 diamonds and 120 pearls.
In 2008, leading Vietnamese jewelers offered their own version of the crown for the competition. But this crown did not take root, the winner did not like it, and the next year it was replaced.
In 2009, Diamond Nexus Labs presented a crown based on an alloy of gold and platinum called "The Crown of the World".
By the way, the 2013 competition was held in Russia.
And since 2014, beauties have been crowned with another crown, worth $ 300,000, with its outlines reminiscent of the skyscrapers of Manhattan, made by the Czech jewelry company Diamonds International Corporation.
Its last owner is the Frenchwoman Iris Mittenar.
Splendor and splendor of imperial crowns are striking even today. Connoisseurs of beauty cannot answer the question - which one is more beautiful?
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