Louise’s love pieces revealed how her husband, King Leopold I, preferred to surround his miniature portraits with brilliants. The radiance of these diamonds literally put him in a good light, and consequently enhanced his royal aura. However, one may wonder to what extent these status-affirming diamonds also conveyed genuine feelings of affection. These glorious, indestructible stones mainly illuminated Leopold himself, and not his loved Louise. Therefore, this renewed N° 49 evokes a new reality, in which Leopold, detached from his brilliance, declares his love to Louise. The brooch imagines a yet unexplored, selfless love narrative that does not succumb to regal splendour. The silver settings around Leopold’s new portrait, in which diamonds would normally be set, are thus deliberately left empty. The prongs, which would normally be shortened so they could encase the stone, retain their length and prove that not only diamonds can make one shine.