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Julie Biden won, get over it.

3 Mar, 18 tweets, 9 min read

#BroochWarfare So there's a current tempest in a teapot (planted by someone royal, I will bet you) involving the Duchess of Sussex wearing earrings gifted from Saudi Arabia.
thetimes.co.uk/article/meghan…

The big fly in the accusatory ointment is, the earrings aren't hers. They belong to the Crown, and were LOANED to her. Further, they weren't from anyone in particular, just the Saudi royal family.
people.com/royals/meghan-…

I suspect she was set up by QE's dresser, Angela Kelly, the same person who refused to release Meghan's wedding tiara so that Meghan could figure out her hairdo, and made THAT into a scandal. (I sense a trend.) marieclaire.co.uk/fashion/meghan…

So anyway, yeah. Scandal involving royal Saudi gifts. Y'know who wears those all the time?

Everybody.

King Faisal, back in the day, gave QE a necklace and she's worn it for ages.

She's loaned it out, too. LOANING OUT JEWELRY IS PRETTY COMMON.

If we wanna get pissy about it, QE also accepted a set of diamonds from South Africa on her 21st birthday, you know, back when Apartheid was still raging.

BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE.

The Williamson Diamond, the light pink monster in the middle of that brooch, was given to QE in 1947, by a Canadian dude named Williamson who owned a mine in Tanzania. Might as well call it slave labor back then.

There's also the entirety of the Cullinans, which Britain fought a war with the Netherlands to get hold of the mines, then kind of stole it when it was left in a London bank for a while.

There's also the aquamarine parure, a gift from Brazil for her marriage, at which time mining conditions there were about slave labor, too.

There are also the Cambridge Emeralds, which were originally won in a 'lottery' by some ancestors, and y'know, gambling is one hell of a way to cover up theft. What lottery has a couple hundred carats of emeralds as a prize??

And then we have the Grand Vladmir Tiara. Which was bought from a distant relative after the Russian Revolution, when they washed up penniless in London begging for help. There's been speculation about that deal since it happened. (Queen Mary made the deal.)

Camilla went to Saudi Arabia a couple times and got piles of swag - estimates for the ruby necklaces are $3mil each - and there was a minor scandal over it, and lots of questions about royal gifts.

Let's not forget Sophie Wessex. She accepted a convertible necklace-tiara from Bahrain, you know, where torture and sex slavery run rampant. The public complained, but she wears it anyway. The Palace didn't make a peep.

Oh, and what about Kate?

Kate wears a lot of the sapphire suite that Princess Diana owned.

It was a wedding gift to Diana, FROM SAUDI ROYALS.

Same goes for this piece. It's been re-worked but was Saudi in origin.

And Kate got a suite of jewels from Saudi Arabia for her wedding, IIRC looked like little flowers, but I can't find a photo of it now.

Anyway, in conclusion, those who live in glass palaces should keep their snide commentary to themselves.

This is another attack on Meghan, this one probably timed to get ahead of the interview coming out this weekend. I've lost a lot of respect for the royal family in the last few years and it's at a nadir after this bit of hypocrisy.

Have something nice and not Saudi. The end.

PS: There's also this, and I'll bet you it's in the Vault. Along with a lot of other stuff that was gotten the same way.
bbc.co.uk/news/resources…

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