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Queen Elizabethwore a beloved brooch on Friday that has rich ties to royal history.
Though her great-grandmother preferred to wear the trio all at once in a cascade,Queen Elizabethfavors wearing them one at a time, often during daytime events.
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Previously, the monarch brought out this particular brooch for a personally momentous occasion on Sept. 9, 2015, when she surpassed Victoria herself as Britain’s longest-reigning monarch. This choice, wrote theExpress, “meant the trio of jewels will forever be associated with long-serving queens.”
Queen Elizabeth at Princess Diana’s funeral.Jeff Overs/BBC News & Current Affairs via Getty
Queen Elizabethhas also chosen to wear one of the bows for more somber occasions, including the 1997 funeral ofPrincess Diana, after the Princess of Wales died in a car crash in Paris.
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And this coming September will mark 35 years since the Queen loaned the piece toSarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York. Then a newlywed, the Duchess donned the sparkler as a collar accent at the Braemar Gathering, an annual sporting competition in the Scottish Highlands that became one of the reigning monarch’s official patronages during the reign of Queen Victoria.
Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York on the cover of PEOPLE.David Burton
The Duchess of York spoke exclusively to PEOPLE forthis week’s cover storyandreflectingon her “brave” friend Diana. The Duchess also touched on another prominent royal woman who often borrows some of the Queen’s most cherished jewels:Kate Middleton.
“If [Diana] were sitting with me right now, I know she would say, ‘I am so proud of both of my boys and the wonderful wives they have chosen,'” the Duchess told PEOPLE.
She also noted, “And she would be just like me,obsessed with her grandchildren. Because that’s what she loved.”
source: people.com
