Kate chose to wear Diana's earrings, which she often does at grand events, including Trooping The Colour during the late Queen's Platinum Jubilee. The drop earrings feature two blue sapphires, each of which is encircled by a diamond halo.
The Princess of Wales wore a pair of pearl and diamond earrings that had once belonged to Prince William's mother. The Collingwood jewellery were gifted to then-Lady Diana ahead of her wedding to Charles and then handed to Kate after her marriage to William.
The finishing touch paid tribute to another royal woman: Queen Elizabeth II. Kate wore the Bahrain Pearl Drop Earrings, the same family heirlooms she wore to Her Majesty's state funeral in September.
Princess Kate, 41, wore two special pieces of jewelry from the royal vault for the banquet that evening — Queen Mary's Lover's Knot tiara and Queen Elizabeth's Greville Chandelier earrings.
Camilla Parker-Bowles went to the races wearing a brooch given to her by her husband - which he had previously given to Diana, Princess of Wales. The diamond Prince of Wales feathers brooch was modified by Diana to be worn as a necklace. Find this Pin and more on Queen Camilla by Maureen Hart.
The yellow gold band has not one but three diamonds: a central rock of three carats from Botswana, where the couple had holidayed together, and two diamonds on either side from Princess Diana's collection. Markle showed off the ring at Kensington Palace when the pair announced their engagement in 2017.
After the princess' death, most of her personal jewelry was inherited by her two sons Princes William and Harry, with pieces loaned to her during her lifetime being returned to Queen Elizabeth II, where they are most likely to have been inherited by King Charles in 2022.
Perhaps the most famous piece of jewelry Kate inherited from Princess Diana is this sapphire engagement ring. The ring was created by British jeweler Garrard and chosen by Prince Charles for his proposal to Diana in 1981.
Princess Kate arrived at Westminster Abbey in the Bahrain Pearl Drop Earrings and four strand pearl choker with center diamond clasp, both from the Queen's personal collection.
Royal expert Katie Nicholl explained that, again, in typical royal fashion, “there is a hierarchy in all of this,” she says. “The Queen Consort, really, gets first choice of the Queen's jewelry. And after that is Princess of Wales, of course, Kate.
If tradition prevails, most of the Queen's personal jewels will be passed on to King Charles III and Queen Camilla. It is speculated that Catherine, Princess of Wales will also receive some of the jewels as she will eventually be Queen.
Pearl earrings and necklaces are the way that the queen splits the difference between the formality and mystique of monarchy, and by wearing pearls, even on the days when she's going to a horse show, or spending time outside on the Balmoral estate, she's keeping up old-school etiquette while still seeming somewhat ...
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For the occasion, she styled them as they were designed to be worn proving she knows left from right in earrings. Astute royal jewelry watchers noted at the time, Kate switched out the round South Sea pearls Diana had on the jewels for oblong pearls from Diana's Collingwood pearl set.
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Camilla doesn't have pierced ears, so she didn't wear the coordinating Coronation Earrings. Instead, she wore a pair of diamond drop earrings from her own collection.
Camilla wore many pieces of jewelry to accompany her all-black mourning look, but it was the brooch placed on her dress—a diamond and sapphire heart-shaped piece—that stood out. The brooch was a gift to Queen Victoria by some of her grandchildren for her Diamond Jubilee in 1897.
The Duchess of Sussex, 41, accessorized with a special jewelry at the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II on Monday morning: pearl and diamond drop earrings given to her by the late monarch. Meghan joined the rest of the royal family in mourning the Queen, who "peacefully" died at age 96 on Sept. 8.
Attending the state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II, Kate Middleton wore a necklace which was once borrowed by Princess Diana and worn by the Queen. The new Princess of Wales was seen wearing the four-strand pearl choker which also featured a diamond clasp, in what appeared to be a subtle tribute to the late monarch.
'” According to Burrell, Harry wanted the ring because it represented a fond memory from his childhood. After Harry received the iconic jewel, Burrell remembers that William was happy for his brother because he's “not materialistic, so he didn't look for the flashiest jewel in mummy's collection."
It is said Meghan Markle now owns the impressive aquamarine ring, which adds to her collection of other jewellery gifted to her by Harry from Princess Diana's royal jewellery collection.
As for why the Queen left Meghan out of her inheritance, Radar Online's source speculated that it could be due to either “practicality” or Harry and Meghan's drama with the British royal family in the years leading up to the Queen's death.
After Diana's tragic death at the age of 36 in a 1997 Paris car crash, her jewelry was inherited by her two sons, Prince William and Prince Harry. The glittering pieces collected by Diana throughout her married life held enormous sentimental value to both the princess and the princes.
The ring reportedly was found in the wreckage of the Mercedes and given to Diana's sisters when they came to Paris to accompany her body back to England.
Diana was wearing a ring given to her by Dodi Fayed when she died. It was a £3,000 Bulgari yellow gold band with diamonds. The diamond band set in yellow gold was not an engagement ring and was worn on the fourth finger of her right hand, where her butler Paul Burrell advised her to wear it.