Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #83365 in Books
• Published on: 2002-11-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 208 pages

Customer Reviews

Glamorous
what a beautiful book - glamorous exterior, glamorous interior!!
ideally displayed on one' s coffee table, an ideal gift!
The lady on the cover is the "May Queen", Italy's last Queen, born Princess Marie Josephine of Belgium, a great beauty in the pre-war period. She is remebered as the "May Queen" because her husband King Umberto II only ruled for one month in 1946.

Meylan has put together the collection of jewels of the royal houses of Russia, France, Spain, Sweden, Britain, Italy, Iran, Austria, Belgium and the Balkans. Not only the crown jewels but as well the personal jewlery of the crowned heads are described and their history traced. The pictures aren superb and the texts informative: a book to look at and to read. The book helps to understand Royal family links as the jeweleries passed through mariages from one dynasty to another.
It is a great joy to browse through this lovely book. You will enjoy it!!