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The Diamond Diedem and Queen Mary's Girls of Great Britain and Ireland Tiara.

I mean, those are the ones that we really recognise.

Yeah.

Even without realising, you know, we have them in our purse and in our pocket and we put stamps

on letters and we don't probably, most people probably don't even think about it, but there

they are and there these jewels will be for everyone to see.

And they're both, I think they're just such fascinating jewels.

I feel like I could talk about the diamond diadem literally all day.

Welcome to If Jewels Could Talk. I'm Carol Walton, the voice of jewelry, an author, broadcaster,

and the woman who initiated the role of Jewelry editor at magazines like Taffler and British Vogue.

This is a podcast for everyone. For people who do like jewellery,

for people who don't realise they like jewellery,

and anyone intrigued by fascinating facts, new ideas, and forgotten histories.

So please join me as I tell sparkly tales,

meeting all sorts of people,

delving into four centuries of jewell jewelry culture and investigate what's happening now.

This is Platinum Jubilee year for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

For anyone listening outside the UK,

what this means is that the whole nation is celebrating her 70th year on the throne.

And we're here today to talk about Her Majesty's jewels that are going to be exhibited this summer at Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace.

Now it's quite hard to talk about someone's life through their jewellery when there's quite so much of it.

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