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Couple being married in front of a crowd of dignitaries
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FABERGÉ; WORKMASTER HENRIK WIGSTRÖM (1862-1923)

Colonnade Egg

1910

RCIN 40084

Emperor Alexander II was invested with this insignia at a ceremony at Tsarskoe Selo by a mission sent by Queen Victoria. Worn at the marriage of his daughter to the Duke of Edinburgh in 1874, it was carried at his funeral in 1881, and then returned to Queen Victoria.


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