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On This Day

Posted by Karen on April 2, 2025, 2:34 pm

1987 - Over 2 days, Sotheby's Geneva auctioned off many jewels once belonging to Wallis, The Duchess of Windsor.The remarkable jewelry collection raised $45 million for the Pasteur Institute medical research foundation approximately seven times its pre-sale estimate.

Some of the jewelry was resold in the late 1990s/early 2000s.

Pages from the 1987 Sotherby's catalogue on the Jewels.

Re: On This Day

Posted by Hollie24 on April 2, 2025, 4:02 pm, in reply to "On This Day"

The choice of the foundation as a beneficiary was down to the monstrous Maitre Suzanne Blum, who had connections with it and who was officially an indirect beneficiary herself (we all know that unofficially she grabbed what she could and abused the Duchess). The late Duchess of Windsor probably was never aware of it and had already told long-time employees they'd be in her will. Not with Maitre Blum's claws into Wallis...

The jewels are magnificent, though.

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