Please note. Our tiaras are produced to a standard size but as they are made of copper they are flexible, this flexibility allows for adjustment to cater for varying head sizes and hair styles.

Once adjusted to the required fit the tiara can be pinned in place using the holes on each end of the frame.

Performing these two necessary simple actions will ensure that the tiara stays firmly in place for as long as required.

This is our version of the Poltimore Tiara (circlet) it’s 10cm at the tallest point. Weight - 360g

The PolitmoreTiara

The Poltimore Tiara started life as a private commission. In 1870, it was created for Florence, Lady Poltimore, wife of the second Baron Poltimore and Treasurer to Queen Victoria’s household.  

Ahead of her engagement to Lord Snowdon, Princess Margaret was looking for a special piece of jewellery for her wedding. When the Poltimore family put the Tiara up for public auction in 1959, Margaret acquired it for £5,500. 

Set with cushion shape and old-cut diamond clusters, the Tiara was typical of the  Victorian era. It also cleverly disguised the fact that the Tiara was convertible, transforming into a fringe necklace and several separate brooches.  

Princess Magaret’s marriage to Lord Snowdon was the first royal wedding to be broadcast on television, an estimated 300 million viewers around the world got to see the wedding and the Poltimore Tiara. 

This was not the tiara’s first apprearance, a few months before the royal wedding, Margaret wore the Poltimore Tiara converted into a diamond necklace for a performance at the Royal Opera House in Convent Garden. In October of the same year, she wore the necklace once again to a film premier.

Princess Margaret wore the Poltimore Tiara throughout her life, in its original form and also as a necklace and brooches. The images of Princess Margaret wearing the tiara in the 1960s with a beehive hairdo illustrate its timeless appeal.

The famous photograph of Margaret wearing the tiara in the bath was taken just a year after her wedding, The photo was not originally intended to be in the public domain but Lord Snowdon, a successful photographer who worked for The Sunday Times, Vogue and The Telegraph, kept the portrait hidden until four years after Margaret’s death in 2006. He decided to exhibit the image as part of a gallery show in London. The rest, is history.