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The Royal Regalia of Kingdom of Serbia and the Kingdom of Yugoslavia
were made in 1904 for the Coronation of King Peter I. The Coronation coincided
with First Centenary of the First Serbian Uprising lead by Karageorge Petrovich.
King Peter I wanted to commemorate his Grandfather and Founder of the Dynasty
in a special way.
The architect Mihailo Valtrovich a Member of the Royal
Academy was given the task to design the insignia provided that the material
would be from the of Karageorge's canon. King Peter I favoured
the idea that the Romanians had when deciding to cast the Royal Crown for
the Coronation of King Carol I from the iron of captured Turkish canon.
The jeweler’s “Falize Freres” made the Regalia in Paris. The Coronation
Ceremony took place in Belgrade in September 1904.
The Regalia consists of: The Royal Crown, The Scepter, The Orb and Royal
Mantle.
The Crown, the Scepter and the Orb are decorated with semi-precious
stones from Serbian mines and with enamels in the national colours (red,
blue and white).
The Royal mantle is made of purplish-dark red velvet embroidered with
gold thread and lined with white ermine. It was fastened with a special
Clasp embellished with a double-headed eagle. |