Just like Kate's wedding tiara, the Lotus Flower Tiara was originally owned by Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. It was fashioned by jewellers at Garrard from a necklace that she received as a wedding gift from her husband in 1923. She wore it low on the forehead, as was the style in the '20s. The Queen Mother then gifted the tiara to her daughter Princess Margaret in 1959.
The tiara made its next big appearance in 1993, when Margaret loaned it to Serena Stanhope on the day she married Viscount Linley and became Margaret's daughter-in-law. After Princess Margaret's death in 2002, the tiara was seemingly returned to the royal collection, allowing the Duchess of Cambridge to borrow it in 2015, when she wore it for a banquet during the state visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping.