Buckingham Palace yesterday announced she has chosen to wear Queen Mary’s crown for the ceremony at Westminster Abbey. While monarchs are crowned with hereditary regalia, it is customary for Queen Consorts to commission a new crown for a coronation. Having now been removed from the Tower and taken to a secret location, the crown will be re-configured by the crown jewellers, Mappin & Webb, to suit the ‘individual style’ of the Queen Consort. As a result, Queen Mary’s crown will be re-set to include the pear-shaped Cullinan III and the cushion-shaped Cullinan IV diamonds. He said: ‘In the light of the confused past history of the Koh-i-Noor diamond, the clear British title to it and the multiplicity of claims which would undoubtedly be made...
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