An Art Deco ruby and diamond bangle, ordered by the Duke of Windsor from Cartier ... to $2.19 million), it said. The Duchess's collection of designer jewels was first offered at auction at ...

And, looking through the jewelry history books, I reminded myself that two of the most fearless collectors of the 20th century, the Duchess of Windsor and Millicent Rogers, both had some serious ...

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By then she was already director of Cartier Jewelry ... Duke of Windsor walked in the door. The first three-dimensional Cartier Panthère was created in 1948 for his wife, the Duchess of Windsor ...

It was a scandal of major proportion," said Phillip Baty, the owner of the Duchess of Windsor Museum in Baltimore.For the past 20 years, Baty's love of history, art, English royalty and Baltimore ...

A number of art world pundits had gleefully been ... jewelry auction ever to appear on the market: The Jewels of the Duchess of Windsor. It was a major coup for Sotheby’s in the eternal battle ...

Known for their tendencies towards splendour and excess, the Duke of Windsor and his wife, Wallis Simpson, were used to living the high life – a habit that extended to the duchess' extensive ... with ...

A set of jewels once owned by American socialite Wallis Simpson — the woman who wooed King Edward VIII from the British throne and became the Duchess of Windsor — fetched nearly $12.5 million ...

She can recount those pangs of regret in detail as she lists the jewels that got away: the Duchess of Windsor’s Cartier Flamingo brooch, Diana Vreeland’s Schlumberger, so much of Liz Taylor ...

The Duke and Duchess of Windsor’s ... ‘going strong’ with the glamorous art expert for a year, and the pair took a right regal tour around the gardens at Chelsea on Monday, joining the likes of Lady ...