The Edwardians: Age of Elegance is a new exhibition opening at The King’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace on Friday, 11 April. The exhibition includes the Dagmar Necklace, one of Alexandra’s 1863 wedding gifts. Her father, King Frederik VII of Denmark, gave his daughter the necklace when she married the Prince of Wales.
The cross is a replica of a twelfth century cross that was buried in 1212 with Queen Dagmar, and reportedly the cross on the necklace has a fragment of wood from the True Cross, as well as a scrape of silk from King Canute’s grave.
