The Royalty Nerd

The Danish royal family has a very sweet, yet simple, tradition that now goes back generations: gold bracelets.

The Danes have jewels upon jewels, upon even more jewels, but the sweetest pieces in the collection are personal. The small gold bands are simple but effective, connecting royals through generations, starting with Crown Princess Margaret of Sweden.

When Margaret’s daughter, the future Queen Ingrid of Denmark turned five years old, she received a gold bracelet identical to the one worn by Margaret in the photo above.

The bracelet obviously became a sentimental piece for Ingrid, who lost her mother only five years later when she was ten because Ingrid went on to gift her own daughters their own bracelets at the age of five. All three of them, Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, Queen Anne-Marie of Greece, and Princess Benedikte of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, still wear them even now.

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The tradition has extended to their own daughters and granddaughters:

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Princess Theodora, one of Anne-Marie’s daughters, wears her bracelet above.

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Her other daughter, Princess Alexia, also wears her bracelet.

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Princesses Nathalie and Alexandra of SWB often attend royal events, and their bracelets were juuuust visible at a dinner celebrating Princess Benedikte’s 75th birthday.

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Margrethe didn’t have any daughters, but she carried on the tradition with her granddaughters. You can see the bracelets on Princess Isabella and Princess Josephine. Her third granddaughter, Princess Athena has one as well, however I’ve had a hard time finding a photo.

So if you’re looking for a cute family tradition to start, look no further than the Danes, who have created sentimental family heirlooms out of otherwise plain gold bands!