Jewel House
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The Jewel House is a vault housing the British Crown Jewels in the Waterloo Block at the Tower of London. It was opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1994 and refurbished in 2012. Regalia have been kept in
The Chamber of the Pyx, Westminster Abbey
A copy of the first Crown Jewels 'guidebook', c. 1690
The Jewel Room of 1868
The Imperial State Crown
Imperial State Crown
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The Imperial State Crown is the state crown of the British monarch. Based on the design of Queen Victoria's Crown of 1838, which had fallen into disrepair, it was made in 1937 for the coronation of Ki
Jewel House
…responsibilities. In 1990, the Jewel House and the Tower of London became the responsibility of the new Historic Royal Palaces agency. 1994–2011 The Imperial State Crown By the 1980s, up to 15,000 people a day were visiting the jewels, causing queues up to an hour long. The display had also begun to look old-fashioned…
Hand-coloured lithograph of Queen Victoria's Imperial State Crown
Queen Victoria depicted wearing the 1838 Imperial State Crown for her coronation portrait
Imperial State Crown, 1904
The emptied frame of Queen Victoria's Imperial State Crown