EPISODE 7 - Part II

The Cartiers and The british crown

 Francesca cartier brickell in conversation with Caroline de Guitaut

In Part II of the Royal Jewels lecture, in conversation with Caroline de Guitaut, Deputy Surveyor of the Queen’s Works of Art, we pick up where we left off - with an emerald ring that changed the course of royal history. Join us as we travel through time and generations; as an abdication of one King leads to the bejewelled coronation of another, and as a young Princess becomes a Queen. We’ll pause at royal weddings along the way (and the Cartier wedding gifts), Zoom in on an extraordinary diamond-filled royal bequest, look at the Duchess of Windsor's big cat jewels, marvel at some of the royal timepieces through time, and show how the support of many members of the royal family – from Prince Philip to Princess Margaret - was so important to the Cartiers through the debilitating years of post-war austerity.