Tiara Name: Queen Elisabeth’s Diamond Bandeau Owning Family: Belgian Royal Family Last Worn: by Elisabetta Maria Rosboch von Wolkenstein on July 5, 2014 Short History: This tiara features a diamond Art Deco design with a row of interlocking diamond shapes threaded with a small wreath of leaves at the center. It’s a low profile bandeau tiara that does have a certain amount of flexibility and can also be worn as a necklace, in a choker style. The tiara belonged to Queen Elisabeth (1876 – 1965), wife of King Albert I. Elisabeth is said to have given the tiara to her daughter-in-law, Queen Astrid (1905-1935), the first wife of Leopold III, to celebrate the birth of her third child, but Astrid tragically died not long after in a car accident. Her husband remarried, and the tiara was also worn by his second wife, Princess Lilian (1916 - 2002). The third child of Queen Astrid and King Leopold III, the one whose birth reportedly inspired the gift of this tiara to Astrid, was Prince Albert, known today as King Albert II. So it’s quite appropriate that the tiara was next given to Albert’s wife, Paola. She loaned this tiara to her daughter-in-law Mathilde to wear on her wedding day as well as her grandson Amedeo’s wife Elisabetta Maria Rosboch von Wolkenstein.
(History taken from here)