In Short. Meghan Markle attended an event with Prince Harry in Germany. The Duchess of Sussex wore her late mother-in-law Princess Diana's Cartier watch. The timeless piece is approximately priced at Rs 16,66,519.
Meghan has been gifted several items from Diana's collection. They include Diana's butterfly earrings and gold bracelet which she wore on their Australian tour in 2018. Yet the watch is a favourite and she has been spotted wearing it often.
The duchess selected a symbolic piece of jewelry from her late mother-in-law's jewelry collection to wear during her and Harry's televised, no-holds-barred interview with Oprah in 2021. It was a diamond bracelet and, reportedly, the same one from which the couple selected stones to create Meghan's engagement ring.
Meghan Markle, wearing a $245 cream knitted vest from Los Angeles-based designer Anine Bing, added a touch of glitz to her ensemble with her late mother-in-law Princess Diana's $17,800 gold Cartier Tank watch.
When Louis Cartier designed the Tank watch in 1917, Europe was at war. It is said images of the newly introduced Renault tanks on the Western Front inspired the spare lines and proportions of the timepiece.
The Duchess of Sussex wore Princess Diana's gold Cartier watch, which was inherited by Prince Harry after his mother's death, at an event in Germany.
When Princess Diana's marriage started to unravel, she stopped wearing the Patek Philippe gold watch that Prince Charles had given to her on her 20th birthday. In its place she frequently wore a classic Cartier Tank Louis on an alligator strap, which was a gift from her father, Earl Edward John Spencer.
The Duchess of Cambridge is a lucky lady for many reasons. One being that she is now the owner of Princess Diana's most famous jewel. Originally created by British jeweller Garrard, Prince Charles chose this grand sapphire ring for his proposal to Diana in February 1981.
It looks like the tiara was only the beginning of sparkly things that Duchess of Sussex is adding to must-wear list. According to Elle UK, Prince Harry reportedly gave Meghan Markle a $20,000 bracelet on their wedding night.
"Looking at images of the huge stone, it looks as though it's around 70 carats, maybe even more." Based on the jewellery expert's estimates, Diana's legacy and the size of the stone could mean the necklace is worth a nine-figure sum. Mr Stone added: "With that in mind it could be worth up to £100,000,000 if sold today.
In the fall of 2020, Kate debuted a new pendant necklace, which appeared to use precious stones from Princess Diana's famed Saudi suite of sapphires—a gift from the Saudi royal family to the late Princess of Wales on the occasion of her wedding, featuring sapphires and diamonds designed to match her Garrard enagement ...
She famously wore the emerald ring for a birthday appearance at the Tate Gallery in July 1997. She also often wore no rings at all during that final year of her life. What is this? More than two decades later, the aquamarine ring reappeared on Prince Harry's wife, Meghan Markle.
In Spencer, Diana is horrified (though seemingly unsurprised) to discover her husband gave her the same pearl necklace he gave to his then-mistress, Camilla Parker-Bowles. There's no evidence to suggest this gift-giving snafu ever happened (or that she ate them at the dinner table).
Description. The Gold Cartier 'Love' bracelet features their signature screw motif throughout. Meghan has owned this bracelet for years and wears it on occasion.
The front and back of the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Cartier gold Tank watch. The timepiece is engraved “Stas to Jackie – 23 Feb. 63 – 2:05 am to 9:35 pm.”
“The Duke and Duchess of Sussex personally fund a private security team for their family, yet that security cannot replicate the necessary police protection needed whilst in the U.K.,” the statement said. “In the absence of such protection, Prince Harry and his family are unable to return to his home,” it said.
Metal bracelets and necklaces
“The biggest problem item is the Cartier Love bracelet. These bracelets can only be removed with a screwdriver, so they become an issue when going through security. It might be wise to put your jewelry on after screening to avoid a pat-down.”
Instead of the notion that one's finest jewelry should be saved and shown off on the most rarified occasions, the Cartier Love bracelet was designed to not be taken off on a daily basis; secured on the wearer's wrist with its very own golden screwdriver.
In 1987, Mohammed Al Fayed purchased this breathtaking Cartier panther bracelet for over $1.4 million during Sotheby's Exceptional Jewels and Precious Objects Formerly in the Collection of the Duchess of Windsor sale, along with at least 19 more of Wallis Simpson's personal jewels.
Following Diana's death in August 1997, the sapphire ring was inherited by her son Prince Harry, who eventually offered it to his older brother Prince William before he proposed to Kate Middleton with it in 2010.
The choker, originally given to Queen Mary and then inherited by Queen Elizabeth II, was gifted to Princess Diana after her wedding to Prince Charles. It was eventually returned to Queen Elizabeth upon the princess's death in 1997.
Arguably the most famous piece in Kate's jewelry collection is her sapphire and diamond engagement ring, which previously belonged to Princess Diana.
Queen Consort Camilla wears Cartier Tank Francaise Midsize Yellow Gold W50003N2 The Queen Consort seems inseparabale from her Cartier watch, which she wears daily. Her watch is Cartier Tank Francaise Midsize Yellow Gold with a black strap.
The most famous engagement ring in history
Diana chose her sapphire engagement ring from Garrard in 1981.
Naturally, being the nosy parkers that we are, we've done a bit of digging... and it seems that royal biographer, Penny Junor, has confirmed that Charles did indeed give Camilla a bracelet with a 'F' and an 'G' inscribed on it.