Queens and tiaras on show at London Platinum Jubilee exhibitions

LONDON, Could 27 (Reuters) – Royal portraits and dazzling tiaras go on show at Sotheby’s in London this weekend as a part of celebrations to mark Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee.

The public sale home is holding a month-long programme of occasions, exhibitions and auctions to mark the event. 4 days of official celebrations for the historic event start on June 2.

At Sotheby’s, artworks together with the Armada Portrait of Elizabeth I, commemorating the failed invasion of England by the Spanish Armada in 1588, and Andy Warhol’s 1985 portray of Elizabeth II, can be on present alongside depictions of different feminine monarchs reminiscent of Mary Queen of Scots and Queen Victoria.

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“We have managed to collect portraits from personal collections and a public assortment of the seven queens regnant,” Francis Christie, deputy chairman of Sotheby’s UK and Eire, informed Reuters.

A 7-day countdown to the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee is displayed on the display screen at Piccadilly Circus in London, Britain, Could 27, 2022. REUTERS/John Sibley

“The superb factor about seeing all these queens collectively in a single room just isn’t solely do you see a kind of temporary artwork historical past lesson from Queen Elizabeth I as much as Queen Elizabeth II and the way clearly inventive fashion has modified. However you additionally see the trail in how a monarch’s picture of themselves has modified.”

Guests will even have the ability to view books and manuscripts such because the demise warrant of the seventh Earl of Northumberland, signed by Elizabeth I and sealed along with her privy seal. Additionally on show is a finely certain coronation Bible for Elizabeth II, certainly one of 25 Bibles used on the June 2 1953 ceremony to mark her ascension to the throne.

Close by greater than 40 tiaras are on present in a separate exhibition, together with the Spencer Tiara worn by the late Princess Diana on her marriage ceremony day.

Others embrace an 1830s diamond tiara designed as a wreath of diamond-set leaves in a nod to historical Roman designs in addition to a twentieth century turquoise cabochon and diamond tiara by Van Cleef & Arpels.