On 30 November, the prominent auction house Sotheby’s shall auction the jewelry belonged to Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor and wife of Edward VIII, who renounced his throne to England to marry her. During their scandalous affair and glad years of wedding, the duke used to build a gift to the Duchess of fabulous jewelry as a sign of his love and devotion. Winds jewelry shall be auctioned were portion of a larger group that was sold, again at Sotheby’s in 1987 for £ 30 million to a private collector, whose auction house declined to reveal the identity.
These specimens, some designed by the pair themselves and made by Cartier, which is expected to gather bids for 3 million pounds, are the jewelry that says the love saga of the couple.
Among these we have a diamond bracelet designed by Cartier in 1935, a favourite of the duchess, with 9 crosses of valuable stones each with an inscription that recalls the most significant events in the life of the pair, including the attempted assassination of the Duke Windsor.
A pin-heart with diamonds, emeralds and rubies made in 1957 to mark the twentieth anniversary of the couple’s marriage, a bracelet of onyx and diamonds shaped like a panther, a gold cigarette case with carved map of Europe’ s Africa North with the places visited by the regal Highnesses, indicated by a gem or a diamond. The emphasize of the group is delineated by a flamingo-shaped brooch made of diamonds, rubies, emeralds and sapphires that have a cost beginning auction of one million and five hundred pounds.
