Unless you've been living under a rock for the last week you should know Kate Middleton is pregnant with baby royal number 2. It's lovely news so I decided the best Thursday throwback I could do this week is the Princess Diana/ Kate engagement ring.
The ring belonged to Diana, princess of Wales, Prince Williams mother.
It consists of 14 solitaire diamonds surrounding a 12-carat oval blue Ceylon sapphire set in 18-karat white gold. It was made by Garrard and unusually for a royal ring was part of the Garrard catalogue and not a one of a kind piece. Diana picked it because she liked it and she wanted a ring with a sapphire. This ring just appealed to her.
When Princess Diana divorced Prince Charles the ring came back to Charles and was put away. After her death in 1997 in a car accident in Paris, Prince William and Prince Harry where allowed to pick pieces from their mother's collections. William picked a £18,000 yellow gold Cartier Tank Francaise watch and Harry picked his mother's engagement ring. They eventually swapped mementoes and that is how William came to own the ring he proposed to Kate with.
It was in October 2010 that William proposed on a 24 hour stop over in a remote Cabin in Kenya. The cabin is one of Williams favourite places to stay and is as basic as it comes, it doesn't even have electricity. After proposing their said to have enjoyed a glass of champagne from a box outside acting as a fridge, then sat back to enjoy it beside a roaring fire.
William is quoted as saying ‘It’s very special to me. As Kate’s very special to me now, it was right to put the two together,’ he said. ‘It was my way of making sure my mother didn’t miss out on today and the excitement, and the fact that we’re going to spend the rest of our lives together.’
The rings value just sky rocketed up to £300,000 from it's original value of £28,000 when it was brought for Princess Diana in 1981, the new value is as a result of the announcement of Kate's pregnancy.
This pregnancy will be the young couples second child and I'd like to say congratulation to them both.
The ring belonged to Diana, princess of Wales, Prince Williams mother.
It consists of 14 solitaire diamonds surrounding a 12-carat oval blue Ceylon sapphire set in 18-karat white gold. It was made by Garrard and unusually for a royal ring was part of the Garrard catalogue and not a one of a kind piece. Diana picked it because she liked it and she wanted a ring with a sapphire. This ring just appealed to her.
When Princess Diana divorced Prince Charles the ring came back to Charles and was put away. After her death in 1997 in a car accident in Paris, Prince William and Prince Harry where allowed to pick pieces from their mother's collections. William picked a £18,000 yellow gold Cartier Tank Francaise watch and Harry picked his mother's engagement ring. They eventually swapped mementoes and that is how William came to own the ring he proposed to Kate with.
It was in October 2010 that William proposed on a 24 hour stop over in a remote Cabin in Kenya. The cabin is one of Williams favourite places to stay and is as basic as it comes, it doesn't even have electricity. After proposing their said to have enjoyed a glass of champagne from a box outside acting as a fridge, then sat back to enjoy it beside a roaring fire.
William is quoted as saying ‘It’s very special to me. As Kate’s very special to me now, it was right to put the two together,’ he said. ‘It was my way of making sure my mother didn’t miss out on today and the excitement, and the fact that we’re going to spend the rest of our lives together.’
The rings value just sky rocketed up to £300,000 from it's original value of £28,000 when it was brought for Princess Diana in 1981, the new value is as a result of the announcement of Kate's pregnancy.
This pregnancy will be the young couples second child and I'd like to say congratulation to them both.
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