| Show KING HAS NO cnOWN JEWELS E S Chicago Record ord Ue Spain possesses no crown jewels as do most European nations tl The last gems were stolen at a the death of Fer Ferdinand er I dinand VII TIT No 0 one knows how or by whom as the civil war had broken out and the country was in a state of chaos But even before that the splendid neck necklace necklace necklace lace of black pearls said t be bs the finest n in the world had mysteriously disappeared disappeared The last queen to wear it was Maria Luisa wife of Charles IV Even EY n the shroud of St Isidro was wa not respected li and now queens of j Spain se In have to deck themselves With their tl own jewels j wel Queen Isabel Iwa U passionately fond of precious stones s nas and still possesses a great gr at ma ly ih ib h uh she h iid has kS given away her best beet to her daughters dau I ers Th Infanta Isabel wears I on state tte t te occasions Q c iOP s the wonderful ul uld 0 0 0 The first wife of Alfonso XII had bad magnificent gems but tout at her death they were returned to the Duchess of Mont Montpensier Montpensier and are now worn by toy the prin princesses princesses of ot the Orleans family f King Al Alfonso Alfonso Alfonso fonso had also given this love of his youth many beautiful jewels and now the carved images of the Virgin of Atocha in Madrid and the Virgin del delPilar delPilar delPilar Pilar in Saragossa are adorned with these as they are also draped in her hel bridal and court vestments The pres present present I ent eat queen of Spain Spam has one of the finest p in Europe the brilliants in inthe inthe Inthe the crown are of the purest water w She possesses also a long string of wonder wonderful ful pearls her favorite stone which sets off so perfectly the toilets that she has always worn since she left off her her ner deep mourning o 0 G i iThe The queens queens eldest el test daughter the tIle Princess of Asturias Ast of ot Prince Charles of Bourbon will have bave foremost among her jewels a So necklace e e of twenty rows of pearls one row given given given en each year by her mother at her successive birthdays and a riviera riviere of brilliants one given each birthday by her aunt the Infanta Isabel Perhaps her royal highness most m st prized jewel jerel will ever eer be the betrothal bracelet given en her by her fiance the other dy day Strangely her mother is is also much attached to a bracelet that was the last gift of the late king kinS on her birthday a few days before his death In 1886 1885 S 0 S Some rO royal heirlooms passed from the royal ro al family by Intermarriage into noble poble families in the nineteenth cen can century tury tur The widow of Ferdinand VII Maria Christina a a Neapolitan NefI Bourbon brought rought with her a wonderful of opals the stone to which is attrib attributed attrIbuted an evil influence in her native land and which Is therefore called call d getta turn tura She married a commoner commoner a love match which made the consort a duke and thus the opal one day passed to the Marquesa de Campo whose life was marked with much suf fering feting rand and many reverses These fa famous famous mona opals then came into th the posses pos possession es sion slon of the late Duchess of who like her husband had risen from froma a very humble station in life to th highest dignities but the wheel of ot for tune turned and two years year s ago sh she died in very ery straitened circumstances The fate of the riviere is not known o 0 In another noble family there is a necklace that once upon a time be longed to the unfortunate queen of France Marie Antoinette and is worn by the Duchess Duch ss of Denia a lady whose first husband was a Duke of Mendina Coeli and who is famous for her pat patronage patronage patronage of art The Duchess of Albas pearls are worth a fortune and many prefer them to the necklace of the Mar Marquesa Marquesa quesa de In la Laguna that cost This Spanish lady Is quite eager for jewels and wears so many of such value that when she goes to a great court function or even to a 8 ball two guards ride at a little from her carriage The old Marquesa de la Ia Puente of the late Pre Premier Premier mier Canovas possesses the largest pearls in Europe Spanish ladles ladies all wear earrings and when a baby girl Is IB born her ears are pierced the same day dah da Spanish ladies have however the good taste not to wear many rings and If they do not possess real stones they never wear false ones |
