I have no idea who inherited what from her extensive jewel collection. She may even have left some pieces to her niece Wilhelmina of the Netherlands. The antique pearl tiara was made to include at least 4 old pearls from the Orange-Nassau collection that she inherited from her father but there are several more pearls needed to create the tiara and she also had all the pearls that go on her ornate tiara.
I do not know of any picture of Wilhelmina or her cousins Zitta and Elisabeth wearing pieces that were attributed to Sophie and through her to Anna Pavlovna.
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: Princess Sophie of the Netherlands the only
: daughter of King William II of the
: Netherlands and of his wife Grand Duchess
: Anna Pavlovna of Russia was Grand Duchess of
: Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach by marriage.
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: She had an impressive collection of jewels
: (presumably inherited from her mother and
: mother-in-law, both daughters of Tsar Paul I
: of Russia)
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: From wikipedia: Princess Catherine Radziwill
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: "...[Sophie] was very different from
: her husband, and, though extremely ugly, was
: a most imposing Princess. She was clever,
: too, and upheld the reputation of the Weimar
: family. She was a Princess of the
: Netherlands by birth...and kept and
: maintained at her court the traditions in
: which she had been reared. Notwithstanding
: her want of beauty, moreover, she presented
: a splendid figure, being always
: magnificently dressed and covered with
: wonderful jewels, among which shone a parure
: of rubies and diamonds that were supposed to
: be the finest of their kind in Europe".
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: A portrait of Sophie wearing her rubies
: exists but I wonder does anyone know of a
: photograph or know what happened to her
: jewels after her death?
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