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By Marie Claire
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Before her royal wedding to Prince Harry, Meghan Markle asked to wear a different tiara than the one she ended up wearing to the big event, but the queen said no.
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According to royal historian Robert Lacey, the queen had a very good reason for rejecting the first request.
The history of Meghan Markle’s wedding tiara is infamous, as it follows royal wedding tradition. Different versions of the story have been told, but some basic facts have remained fairly consistent. Basically, Meghan originally wanted to wear a different tiara than the one we all saw adorning her head during the royal wedding, but Queen Elizabeth vetoed her first choice.
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“Without confirming the palace, but not denying it, we were told that the Queen felt she had to say ‘no’ to Meghan’s first choice, a beautiful emerald headdress that was said to ‘come from Russia.’
“This was a code for a sensitive origin, which means that the treasure was one of those that had come into the hands of Windsor through ‘undefined’, not to say doubtful channels, and for an undisclosed price, after the Russian Revolution.
There was a scandal attached. For this reason, the emerald tiara was rarely, if ever, on public display and it would not do the palace or Meghan herself any good that spring if the newspapers began to speculate which Princess Tsrist had worn the tiara and how she had been assassinated. “.
“Unfortunately, Harry’s ignorance of both history and family tradition meant that he did not understand this subtlety,” writes Lacey.
And so the Tiaragate plot continues to thicken.
