Princess Kate skipped this year's Diplomatic Corps reception, but even though fans didn't get to see the royal in a tiara on November 18, Queen Camilla treated the world to a very unexpected emerald moment. The Queen wore the Greville Emerald Kokoshnik, the same tiara Princess Eugenie wore on her 2018 wedding day—and its sudden appearance amid the scandals surrounding the York family hardly seems coincidental.
Prior to Tuesday night's reception, Princess Eugenie had been the only member of the Royal Family to ever wear the tiara publicly. According to royal jewelry expert Lauren Kiehna of The Court Jeweller, the piece was created for Dame Margaret Greville and was passed down to the Queen Mother in 1942. Queen Elizabeth inherited the tiara after her mother's death in 2002, but neither the late Queen nor her mother ever wore it publicly.
