which is a halo-shaped headdress worn by Russian women." Queen Alexandra passed the tiara down to her daughter-in-law, Queen Mary, who in turn gave it to her granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II.

The record describes as “a brilliant graduating diamond tiara in the Russian style, also to form a necklace.” Garrad further explained that the tiara is comprised of "a series of 61 vertical ...

The fringe-style tiara features row after row of diamonds (more than 400 stones in total), and per the royal jewelry blog, is "shaped like a kokoshnik, which is a halo-shaped headdress worn by Russian ...