This message #1 was written by Boffer pre-2013.

14. The Queen’s Flower Basket Brooch

   This brooch is described by Field as a “simple garden-basket shape … [with] a spray of rubies, diamond and sapphire flowers”.[1] It was presented to The Queen, when still Princess Elizabeth, by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth to mark the birth of her first son, and their first grandson, Prince Charles.[2]

   This brooch was first worn by The Queen in the first official pictures of her taken with her newly-born baby.[3] It has been worn by The Queen regularly ever since.[4]

1. Field, The Queen’s Jewels, p. 60
2. Field, The Queen’s Jewels, p. 60; Royal Collection: Dress for the Occasion: The Flower Basket Brooch
http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/microsites/dressfortheoccasion/object.asp?exhibs=BPSO2006jewellery&item=16
[Accessed 14 June 2012]
3. Royal Collection: Princess Elizabeth with infant Prince Charles, 14 December 1948 (RCIN 2999884)  http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/collection/2999884/princess-elizabeth-with-the-infant-prince-charles-14-december-1948 [Accessed 14 June 2012]
4. Young, The Queen’s Jewellery, pl. 116; Field, The Queen’s Jewels, p. 60