On January 1, 2006, Crown Princess Mary of Denmark, 51, attends the New Year’s reception hosted by the Danish royal family at Amalienborg Palace for the first time. When she married in 2005, she officially became a royal and lived up to this requirement with her glamorous looks. Her excellent fashion sense, which is often compared to that of Catherine, Princess of Wales, 41, is coming into the spotlight with the abdication of Queen Margrethe II, 83.
Princess Mary: She is wearing her 17-year-old robe for the fifth time
Why reinvent the wheel every year when you can rely on the tried and tested? That’s probably what Princess Mary thinks when she plans her look for the New Year’s banquet. Five times she wears a burgundy velvet gown designed by Birgit Hallstein. The long-sleeved dress with a train looked completely different when it first appeared in 2007 than it did in subsequent years. While it was originally designed in the Regency style, the princess made a few stylistic changes. The round neckline, which exposed a relatively large amount of cleavage, was replaced by a boat neckline. A waist belt changed the fit of the dress, and the sleeves were also narrowed. So Mary adapted the 17-year-old gown to her progressive tastes. This also applies to the high-quality jewelry that she wears almost every year.
The Ruby Parure: Mary’s Favorite Crown Jewels
The New Year’s banquet provides an excellent opportunity to get the high-profile crown jewels out of the safe. Among them is the ruby parure. The collection consists of five main pieces that Mary likes to wear in combination or in modified form: the tiara, bracelet, necklace, earrings and pendant. Matching the pieces made in 1804, there are also other pieces of ruby jewelry in the Danish treasury that fit perfectly with them. Such as a brooch that Mary sometimes wears on her belt, neck or dress at the New Year’s banquet.
Source: kongernessamling.dk