On the last day of their state visit, Charles and Camilla took the train to Hamburg; a detail of the king’s wife’s appearance stood out next to her hat.

The king’s wife, Camilla, dressed in a reserved but royal blue for the trip from Berlin to Hamburg and several appointments in the Hanseatic city. She under a coat she wore a dress of the same tone. Outside, when it rained, she too wore black leather gloves and an opulent hat with a fur brim. On her coat, the 75-year-old wore a strikingly brilliant brooch set with a large sapphire surrounded by twelve diamonds. A piece with a special meaning.

Because as the British royal reporter Richard Palmer writes on Twitter and also reports the British newspaper “Daily Mail”, the brooch comes from Queen Victoria’s jeweler. Her husband, Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, gave it to her as a wedding gift in 1840. Victoria, former Queen of the United Kingdom, lived from 1819 to 1901. She was the great-great-grandmother of Queen Elizabeth II, who died in September 2022 The choice was made, but probably not by one of the two women of the jewel, but by the donor, the German Prince Albert. Perhaps a token of gratitude to the host country, where Camilla and Charles were visiting for three days.

It is said that Queen Victoria wore the brooch very often and was very taken with it. She has made the jewel a crown relic so that it will always be passed down to the next queen or king consort. Queen Elizabeth II also wore the brooch from time to time.

After two days in Berlin, including a state banquet and a speech in the Bundestag, King Charles III. and the king’s wife, Camilla, wrapped up their first foreign trip as a royal couple on Friday afternoon in Hamburg.