This ring opens to show two portraits – a profile of Elizabeth and a Anne Boleyn. Elizabeth’s ownership of the ring is said to provide evidence that, despite her mother’s disgrace and execution, she publicly acknowledged Anne. This ring was supposedly removed from the finger of the dead queen and taken to James VI of Scotland to inform him of Elizabeth’s death. This provided him with the evidence he needed to make his preparations to travel south and accede to the English throne, thus uniting the crowns of England and Scotland. The ring bears the initial ‘E’ in table-cut diamonds and contains miniature busts of the Queen and her mother, the executed Anne Boleyn. Additional details of the ring=)Mother-of-pearl hoop, table-cut rubies, table-cut diamonds, enamel. C. 1575. ….likeness believed to be of her mother
History taken from this blog http://ringtherings.wordpress.com/2009/01/21/queen-elizabeth-1/
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