It’s based on the traditional Russian girls’ headdress favoured ... But it was in 2011 that the Halo tiara made its most prestigious outing, worn by Catherine Middleton at her wedding to ...

requesting one that resembled the heavy diamond halo-shaped tiara of her sister, the enormously wealthy Empress Marie Feodorovna of Russia's Romanov dynasty. In its original form, the crown ...

which is a halo-shaped headdress worn by Russian women." Queen Alexandra passed the tiara down to her daughter-in-law, Queen Mary, who in turn gave it to her granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II.

The fringe-style tiara features row after row of diamonds (more than 400 stones in total), and per the royal jewelry blog, is "shaped like a kokoshnik, which is a halo-shaped headdress worn by Russian ...

requesting one that mirrored the heavy diamond halo-shaped tiara of her sister, the immensely wealthy Empress Marie Feodorovna of Russia's Romanov dynasty. Originally, the crown jeweller Garrard ...