Queen Elizabeth II was the queen of the United Kingdom (UK) until she passed away on September 8, 2022.
Before her death, her net worth was around $600 million.
Below are the details of the most expensive belongings of late Queen Elizabeth II:
1. Art collection
Queen Elizabeth II possessed the world’s largest private art collection in the world that includes a million paintings, prints, watercolours and drawings.
Although a part of this collection belongs by the crown itself, the Queen personally owned a huge part of it, some of which were passed to her by her mother.
Her art collection includes portraits made by Michelangelo and Rembrandt and over 600 drawings by Leonardo da vinci.
2. Stamp collection
The largest and most diverse stamp collection on earth belonged to Queen Elizabeth II. She made the Royal philatelic collection famous by putting it on exhibit, and making it available for loans and charities.
In 2009, the former French president Sarkozy told her that he had started collecting stamps to give himself a calmer image. The Queen helped him by gifting him various masterpieces.
The collection grew in such a way that when King Edward VII died it comprised of 328 stamp albums called the Red Albums.
The Red Albums still contain all the stamps that King Edward VII managed to get his hands on.
3. Boring Tunnel Machine
Queen Elizabeth II was gifted a boring tunnel machine.
Like giant underground factories on rails, each of the custom-made cross rail tunnel machines had an external diameter of 7.1 meters, weighed around 1,000 tonnes and measure around 150 meters in length.
Its size is equal to 14 London buses end-to-end and a staggering 143 buses in weight.
Though the Queen doesn’t exactly own it, this may be the weirdest and most random gift she has ever gotten in her life.
4. HMY Britannia
The construction on this ship began in 1952 and was launched on April 16, 1954.
The ship travelled more than 1 million nautical miles around the globe from 1953 till it was decommissioned in 1997.
After its 43-year travel around the globe, HMY Britannia was turned into a tourist attraction and taken across various cities in the UK.
The boat had room for some of the queen’s cars and even had its own servants living quarters with laundry facilities and even a private hospital.
The ship is more like palace floating in the sea, and waiting for the Queen to show up.
The limousine, being the official state limousine for her majesty and was a present for her golden jubilee in 2002.
The car is often used during official events because it’s both bullet and bomb proof.
Another of her precious cars is a 1984 Jaguar daimler double six long-wheelbase saloon that was custom fitted with a number of exclusive features at the time.
The royal car transported eminent personalities including the Queen, princes, and princesses and was auctioned for $77,000 in 2010.
She was the biggest landowner on the planet, with her portfolio showing around 6 million acres of land or, to put it into perspective, one-sixth of the world’s non-ocean surface.
7. Jewellery
Her Majesty had one of the largest and possibly most expensive jewellery sets in the world.
Containing the famous crown jewels, this collection includes her royal crown also known as ‘Granny’s tiara’, which was one of the most expensive assets of the Queen.
Some important gifts given to the queen include the Vladamir Tiara worth close to a million pounds, the Prince Albert sapphire Brooch worth £4 million and the Cullinan Jewels thought to be worth almost £50 million.
The collection also includes the Collet diamond necklace with a unique drop shaped diamond pendant of 22.48 carats, South African necklace and matching bracelet, diamond earrings, over 200-year-old gemstones, a 23.6 carat uncut diamond from Tanzania and a marvellous black coloured snuff box decorated with diamonds.
8. Wardrobe
The queen had a unique wardrobe.
The late Queen’s wedding and coronation dresses, both designed by British couturier Norman Hartnell, and worn in 1947 and 1953 respectively, are described as a tour de force of craftsmanship.
9. Yoruba throne
Since the eleventh century, the Yoruba people of West Africa have lived in the south-western area of what is now Nigeria and the Republic of Benin.
Beadwork and royalty are closely associated in Yoruba culture, with vast quantities of beads considered a source of wealth and status.
The Queen had two tall Yoruba thrones built of wood. They feature straight arms, legs with three stretchers, and back.
They also have diamond patterns on the arms and legs and four lions on the upper surface of the gold beaded seat.
The symbolism of the interlaced motifs denotes many aspects of spiritual life including power, the past, the future and respect for ancestors and descendants.
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