Overview
- Queen Máxima wore the Ruby Peacock tiara with the matching necklace at the Diplomatic Corps Gala at Amsterdam’s Royal Palace on Thursday, April 23.
- King Willem-Alexander used his dinner speech to urge closer international cooperation, saying conflicts cross borders and the way forward lies in working together.
- The annual gala brought about 140 foreign diplomats together with Dutch leaders under this year’s theme of politics and administration.
- The Ruby Peacock set was commissioned in 1897 by Dowager Queen Emma from Eduard Schurmann & Co using Queen Sophie’s rubies, and it comprises a tiara, a necklace, and a peacock-tail stomacher.
- After decades out of view, the parure returned in 2009 when Máxima wore it, and it now circulates across generations, with Princess Catharina-Amalia wearing the tiara at a 2024 state banquet.