![]() ![]() The regal love of the gem, said to symbolise love and purity, dates back to 1840, when Prince Albert gave Queen Victoria a diamond and sapphire brooch to mark their wedding, a moment so touching the monarch wrote about it in her private diary remarking: ‘My dear Albert has such good taste.’ This dazzling diamond necklace was a wedding gift from the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, a man she had never met, and was by far the most magnificent of her 12,000 wedding presents. Made by Asprey, the suite comprised a huge Burmese sapphire pendant set in a jagged sunray fringe of diamonds
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