New year receptions have also been taking place in Brussels, and this week we saw sapphires, diamonds, and pearls sparkling on Belgium\u2019s queen and crown princess at a palace reception for European dignitaries.<\/p>\n Queen Mathilde of the Belgians wore bright royal blue to greet the heads of European institutions and permanent representatives accredited to the European Union at the Royal Palace in Brussels on Tuesday. Jelka Van Duyse shares that the dress and shoes are both from Armani Priv\u00e9<\/a>, and she notes that the blue color references the symbolic color of the EU.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n With the dress, Mathilde wore a pair of gorgeous diamond and sapphire earrings, which are newer additions to her jewelry box. These feature triangular diamond studs, diamond \u201cstrings,\u201d and beautiful sapphire cabochon drops.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The earrings (and the dress and shoes) were notably worn for the welcome ceremony during the President of Italy\u2019s state visit<\/a> to Belgium back in October.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n We also got a very good look at the earrings when Princess Elisabeth borrowed them to wear for the transition of power ceremonies in Luxembourg<\/a> at the beginning of October.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Speaking of the Duchess of Brabant, Elisabeth was also present for the reception, as well as an audience with prominent EU leaders ahead of the event. The future queen, who will graduate from Harvard this spring, is beginning to take on a higher-profile role within the family. Soon, she will succeed her aunt, Princess Astrid, as the lead of Belgium\u2019s economic missions. (Queen Mathilde will take on the role until Elisabeth is ready to step in.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Elisabeth chose the same designer as her mother for the occasion, wearing a belted dress from Giorgio Armani. It\u2019s the same one she chose to wear for a reception ahead of the coronation in Britain<\/a> in May 2023.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n For Tuesday\u2019s reception, Elisabeth added additional sparkle to her ensemble with a classic pair of diamond and pearl button earrings. Queen Mathilde (and just about every royal lady in Europe) owns a similar pair, and I\u2019m not sure whether Elisabeth borrowed these from her mother or has her own version of the earrings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Speaking of Belgium\u2019s royals: before I sign off today, here\u2019s a reminder that I\u2019ll be featuring an extensive article for paid subscribers<\/a> at Hidden Gems tomorrow about a spectacular suite of diamond and aquamarine jewels that belonged to the late Queen Fabiola. The set will soon be sold at auction\u2014along with Fabiola\u2019s engagement ring. Join me at Hidden Gems tomorrow<\/a> for more!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.thecourtjeweller.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The King and Queen of the Belgians host a reception for the heads of European institutions and permanent representatives accredited to the European Union at the Royal Palace in Brussels on January 13, 2026 (BENOIT DOPPAGNE\/Belga News Agency\/Alamy) New year receptions have also been taking place in Brussels, and this week we saw sapphires, diamonds, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2237153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2237152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Sapphires-Diamonds-and-Pearls-for-the-Belgian-Royals-in-Brussels.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2237152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2237154,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237152\/revisions\/2237154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2237153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2237152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2237152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2237152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"The](\"https:\/\/www.thecourtjeweller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2026-0113-04-belgium02.jpg\")
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