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[[Image:Richard II of England.jpg|thumb|right|150px|[[Richard II of England]] wearing a circlet.]]
A '''circlet''' is a [[crown (headgear)|crown]] with neither arches nor a [[Cap (crown)|cap]] (internal covering).
Many ancient crowns were circlet in style, notably the ''original'' [[St. Edward's Crown]], the [[coronation crown]] of English [[monarch]]s, which was destroyed by [[Oliver Cromwell]] during the [[Commonwealth of England]]. In [[fairy tale]]s, crowns often continue to be represented in circlet form.
In the twentieth century two [[United Kingdom|British]] [[consort crown]]s, the [[Crown of Queen Mary]], and the [[Crown of Queen Elizabeth]], were designed with detachable [[half-arch (crowns)|half-arches]] connected to [[Cross pattée (crown)|crosses pattee]] so that they could be worn as circlets.
Former [[Queen Consort|Queens Consort]] whose husbands had died sometimes only wore their consort crowns as circlets after his death. [[Alexandra of Denmark]] (Queen Alexandra, widow of [[Edward VII of the United Kingdom]]), [[Mary of Teck]] (Queen Mary, widow of King [[George V of the United Kingdom]]) and [[Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon]] (Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, widow of King [[George VI of the United Kingdom]]) all followed this practice.
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