Queen Camilla Pays Tribute to This Royal Family Member With 145-Year-Old Heirloom Brooch on Easter Sunday
The historic piece has become a favorite of Camilla’s in the past few years.

- Queen Camilla made an appearance St. George’s Chapel on April 5 to celebrate Easter Sunday alongside her husband, King Charles, and the rest of the royal family.
- For the occasion, Camilla wore a brooch that dates back 145 years to 1881 and is fashioned with topaz and diamonds.
- The heirloom brooch once belonged to the Queen Mother before it was passed down to her eldest daughter, Queen Elizabeth.
For her Easter Sunday appearance alongside King Charles and the rest of the royal family, Queen Camilla chose an heirloom brooch that honored the Queen Mother.
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On April 5, Camilla paired her red wool crepe Fiona Clare coatdress, Philip Treacy hat, and Dior handbag with the spritely-named Raspberry Pip Brooch, which Queen Elizabeth’s mother the Queen Mother inherited from her own mother, the Countess of Strathmore.
Per Tatler, the Raspberry Pip Brooch is fashioned in the form of a Georgian cross set with topaz and diamonds and dates back to the 19th century, with Town and Country citing 1881 as the date of its origin. The Queen Mother—who inherited the brooch in 1938—eventually passed it down to her eldest daughter, Queen Elizabeth, and Camilla now wears it on occasion.
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The outlet reported that neither the Queen Mother nor Queen Elizabeth is ever believed to have worn this particular brooch in public. That said, it has become a favorite of Camilla’s, who has worn the piece on a number of occasions, including on Christmas Day 2023, while visiting the Vatican last year, and to the annual Royal Ascot in June.
According to the Crown Chronicles, the brooch may have gotten its name because of its shape, “which some observers liken to the delicate structure of a raspberry seed.”
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Kate Middleton, clad this year in a cream Self-Portrait mididress, also reached for heirloom jewelry on Easter Sunday. The Princess of Wales wore one of her favorite pairs of earrings, Queen Elizabeth’s Bahrain Pearl Drop earrings, which were given to the then-Princess Elizabeth as a wedding present when she married Prince Philip in 1947.