The Queen Mother's Lifelong Love of Jewellery - Friday 27th September 7pm
An illustrated talk by Jeremy Mainwaring-Burton at the Boxgrove Village Hall
Jeremy served as the Queen Mother's equerry while in the army in the late 1970's. Being interested in stones and having a degree in geology he couldn't help but notice the magnificent gems in the jewellery Her Majesty used to wear. Indeed if he admired a certain piece she would sometimes take it off and give it to him to have a closer look.
This inspired him to study gemmology and when he left the army he qualified as a Fellow of the Gemmological Association. He then spent many years as a jewellery and precious stone dealer in London's Hatton Garden.
The Queen Mother may have thought her choice of jewellery "not very great"but in fact she had so much to choose from it would be almost impossible to describe it all. So in this entertaining, illustrated talk, Jeremy concentrates on a selection of items which are of gemmological and historic interest, and have an amusing story attached.
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An illustrated talk by Jeremy Mainwaring-Burton at the Boxgrove Village Hall
Jeremy served as the Queen Mother's equerry while in the army in the late 1970's. Being interested in stones and having a degree in geology he couldn't help but notice the magnificent gems in the jewellery Her Majesty used to wear. Indeed if he admired a certain piece she would sometimes take it off and give it to him to have a closer look.
This inspired him to study gemmology and when he left the army he qualified as a Fellow of the Gemmological Association. He then spent many years as a jewellery and precious stone dealer in London's Hatton Garden.
The Queen Mother may have thought her choice of jewellery "not very great"but in fact she had so much to choose from it would be almost impossible to describe it all. So in this entertaining, illustrated talk, Jeremy concentrates on a selection of items which are of gemmological and historic interest, and have an amusing story attached.
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