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Sign up for The Court Jeweller Newsletter The Court Jeweller Sparkling Royal Jewels From Around the World 04.11.2025 by thecourtjeweller // Leave a Comment the world learned of the passing of Prince Andreas the head of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha we’ve got a look at a special suite of jewelry treasured by his grandmother and now worn by his daughter-in-law but his allegiance to Germany and its right-wing leaders made him an enemy during the world wars Andreas’s parents divorced when he was still a toddler He moved with his mother from Germany to New Orleans where he spent the better part of his childhood he spent more time in Germany with his paternal grandmother where he fell in love with Carin Dabelstein and married her in 1971 They had three children together in a marriage that lasted until Carin’s passing in 2023 after living for many years with multiple sclerosis Andreas’s distant father succeeded to the headship of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Andreas inherited the job of managing the family’s estates which included real estate holdings as well as farms and forests He proved himself to be a capable shepherd of the family assets rebuilding their fortune after years of mismanagement and neglect He worked as the administrator of the family foundations until 2012 Prince Andreas is survived by his three children—Princess Stephanie and her husband Princess Kelly; and Prince Alexander—as well as three grandchildren He was also the godfather of Princess Madeleine of Sweden the daughter of his cousin and close friend the family has managed to retain a few pieces of important jewelry that belonged to Andreas’s grandmother Among the collection is a parure of diamond and turquoise jewelry that includes a tiara Victoria Adelheid wears parts of the suite in a formal portrait open diadem that fit well with the piled-up hairstyles of the turn of the 20th century Victoria Adelheid continued to wear her turquoises even as hairstyling fashions changed she’s wearing the complete parure of turquoises on the right side of a group photograph taken at a gala celebrating the upcoming wedding of her daughter (They are the parents of the present King of Sweden.) That tiara remains with the Swedish royal family today the diamond and turquoise suite has primarily been worn by Prince Andreas’s daughter-in-law She’s often one of the most vibrant figures at family weddings and celebrations because she pairs the turquoises and the purple and green sash of the family order with gowns in bright shades of blue she wears an electric blue dress with the jewels and decoration at the wedding of Princess Madeleine of Sweden in June 2013 Kelly opted to wear just the tiara from the turquoise suite pairing it with a small pair of pearl drop earrings The large size of the tiara’s frame is clearer in these modern photos One of Kelly’s most successful outings in the turquoises came in April 2016 when she joined Andreas and Hubertus for a banquet in Stockholm celebrating King Carl XVI Gustaf’s 70th birthday she wore a navy dress with an off-the-shoulder neckline and she was able to leave the show-stealing order sash at home she wears a medal given to guests to commemorate their attendance at the royal birthday celebration Kelly wore both the tiara and the necklace from the turquoise set The tiara is placed in a more halo-like position in her hair She sensibly wore just a pair of small diamond earrings instead of the large turquoise earrings from the suite One of the most recent appearances of the turquoises came in June 2022, when Kelly wore them to attend the wedding of Prince Gustav of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg and Carina Axelsson in Germany Kelly matched the color of her gown to the turquoises themselves she opted to wear just the tiara and necklace from the suite and the same small diamond stud earrings I think an updo is the best way to showcase this particular sparkler Before I go today, a scheduling note: because I’m still traveling, there will not be a new article posted at Hidden Gems tomorrow I do have a roundup of bonus content scheduled here for you all to enjoy while you wait for more sparkle Categories // germany Enter your name and email address below to subscribe to our weekly newsletter Sign up for my new subscriber-supported community, Hidden Gems, delivered directly to you each Saturday! Copyright © 2025 THE COURT JEWELLER LLC I think my father’s silence – about nearly everything – was a consequence of trauma just over a month after my wife Kathy and I were married. My parents were German Jewish Holocaust survivors They fled Germany after Hitler came to power but many of my relatives remained and were murdered My parents told my siblings and me almost nothing about their early lives Kathy and I joined our daughter Sarah and her family for a roots trip to Germany I uncovered the profound struggles my family endured as Holocaust victims I have been seeking German citizenship since Trump was elected in 2016 The Los Angeles German consulate needed my father’s birth certificate when my father’s citizenship was revoked because he was a Jew they took the trouble to cancel the revocation These modifications are handwritten on the document itself so someone took the trouble to find my father’s birth certificate to revoke his citizenship Then someone else (the handwriting is quite different) took the trouble to find it again and cancel that revocation. who presided when I had the honor of signing the “Golden Book” in Gotha’s city hall had just gained 30% of the vote in the most recent national elections and I think one reason for the warm welcome was to push back against the AfD Uwe told us the party is most popular among young people. I am still trying to process our time in Gotha but two of his younger brothers were murdered by the Nazis When the Nazis tried to remove him from his school The archivist and historian told us this was very rare German non-Jews seldom protested mistreatment of the Jews My grandfather’s tombstone is blank – Hitler youth pried off the metal letters. Uwe promised he would see to it that the letters would be restored We saw the tombstones of all my father’s people who died before the Holocaust Those who didn’t are buried in exile or were incinerated in Auschwitz. We saw my grandfather’s house and clinic—still quite impressive His wife’s family owned the even more handsome estate up the street. We called her “Granny Philadelphia” to distinguish her from my other grandmother Granny Philadelphia would visit occasionally from Philadelphia She had a strong German accent which sounded sinister because of the World War II movies we all saw in the 1950s and 60s She clearly did not know how to interact with American children My mother did not hide her disdain for her. she and her parents hid Jews in their house before they escaped and she herself escaped with her two nieces in 1939. and my father found a nursing home for her in Syracuse My parents had me play my clarinet for her in the nursing home and I didn’t think it was a very nice place. The rabbi mispronounced her name at her funeral. she might have had a privileged life in Gotha – both her family She was forced to flee her home and spend the next 30 years in a strange country but I can imagine that she was very lonely. The Germans commemorate some of the Jews displaced and/or murdered during the Holocaust with what are called Stolpersteine – Stumbling Stones Here is the Stolpersteine that commemorates my great uncle Walter Ruppel in the sidewalk outside the school where he taught He was arrested in 1938 and sent to Buchenwald He was deported in 1944 to Auschwitz in Poland I have asked Uwe to begin the process of creating a Stolpersteine for my grandmother To mark the highlight of Thuringia Day in Gotha Haack and Heidi – From Gotha into the World" by Anna Neuhaus and Amelie Befeldt will be shown again on MDR television on Saturday Created in 2021 for the MDR series "Der Osten – Entdecke wo du lebst" the film tells the story of the global reach of publishing houses founded in Gotha cartographers who worked here and books published here The Perthes family wrote publishing history in Gotha Justus Perthes founded a publishing house here in 1785 which made the royal seat the centre of geography in the 19th and 20th centuries whose Haack World Atlas could be found in nearly every household the Friedrich Andreas Perthes publishing house no longer existed Its founder in 1822 was Friedrich Christoph Perthes And his son Andreas continued to run the publishing house but the publishing house's most famous product is still known throughout the world today – the Heidi books by Johanna Spyri The first editions of the Swiss national treasure were published in Gotha they began their media triumph around the globe – as books the Gotha Perthes Collection is one of the largest and most beautiful map publishing archives in Europe with 185,000 maps the Perthes Forum in Gotha stores the history of discovery and cartography of the world maps tell of the colonisation of entire continents This unique archive harbours world knowledge and is alive today as a place of research and science You are in the news section of the Gotha Research Library Further news, press releases and current topics can be found on the "News" pages of the University of Erfurt Opening hours Find us Information material A-Z About the library Contact persons Publications Event calendar Newsletter Blog University of Erfurt | Gotha Research LibraryCG1 – Gotha Research Library Friedenstein CastleSchlossplatz 199867 Gotha bibliothek.gotha@uni-erfurt.de +49 361 737-5540 University of Erfurt (Campus) Nordhäuser Str Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page.