Diana, Princess of Wales Jewellery 2

[jcbcode99]

Originally Posted by Boris

There is no proof that it was lost.

Too true, too true! I hope they're not buried with that sapphire!! I relent and I hope that we see the sapphire again soon.

[queenofthelight]

http://s5.tinypic.com/6jn90o.jpg (1982)
http://s5.tinypic.com/2s1vpj9.jpg (1982)
http://s5.tinypic.com/osaej8.jpg (1995)
http://s5.tinypic.com/29wppw4.jpg (1991)
http://s5.tinypic.com/10qjn5z.jpg
http://s5.tinypic.com/2nuu068.jpg (1982)
http://s5.tinypic.com/sgljrp.jpg (1986)
http://s5.tinypic.com/vip2x0.jpg (1993)

Princess Diana' earrings.
http://i39.tinypic.com/2j2937c.jpg

[iakynthi]

Beautiful jewels!!I especially liked the earrings in the 2nd picture(Diana's blue eyes are glowing here)!

[Grace Angel]

Does anyone know the story of the earings that Diana wears in my profile picture? I saw them on the Diana's jewels website as aquarimarine and diamond earings, but with no background info.

[scooter]

Grace, I dont remember seeing that picture before now. Do you know where and when it was taken? It would be easier to research...

[Grace Angel]

These are the same earings as are on the Diana's jewels website- if you go on the website ( link is earlier on thread) and look at the earings, you'll find them. I'm not sure when and where this picture was taken,it's rare no info given.I found it on flickr, and that person seems no longer to be on flickr (hasn't posted pics since '05), so I can't really ask them and they don't say where they got the picture. But these are the same earings she wore with the Spencer tiara and the pale blue evening dress in the 1980s photo where her eyes are lined with blue eye shadow, which is the photo on the Diana's jewels website. I just looked on flickr, and it doesn't say where the picture was taken, but it says the year is 1996.

[jcbcode99]

Menkes has the photo you describe (blue eyeliner, aquamarine earrings) in her book

Originally Posted by queenofthelight

http://s5.tinypic.com/2s1vpj9.jpg (1982)

Those lovely sapphire earrings are reworked from the Saudi wedding gift. I believe Diana took stones from the watch to create the earrings.

[MARG]

Originally Posted by Boris

Oh my, it seems we don't have much time for understanding irony either on these Forums.

I was just refreshing my memory trawling though some older threads and I found this gem. Boris you rock! Irony . . . . is an acquired taste and sometimes leads to metaphoric outraged lynch mobs! I speak from immoderate experience.

Originally Posted by Boris

Maybe it's possible to return to a discussion of her jewels - instead of their burial places, fabricated in some psychic's mind and put into writing to be able to fill a few more pages in a book she tried to sell...

Well there is no shortage of absolute garbage by pschics etc, all legends in their own lunchtime, trying to flog off their latest bit of tatty trash but IMHO no-one is stupid enough to bury their jewellry.

As to Diana's personal jewelry? I would not be at all surprised if it wasn't already in William's possession, albeit stashed in the vault for safekeeping!

[Boris]

Thank you, MARG...!
Regarding the beautiful aquamarine and diamond earrings:
They were first seen during the Wales' tour through Germany in autumn 1987, in Munich. Their was never any info to be found about their provenance.
Speculation points towards the Gulf tour through four Middle Eastern monarchies exactly one year earlier - the Omani sapphires were first worn during the visit to Germany as well, and it's possible that the aquamarine earrings were also a gift from an Arab ruler given during the earlier tour.
The avatar picture of Diana wearing them was taken in late 1995, I believe... some evening function where Diana was accompanied by Al Fayed sr., wearing a rarely seen ice blue full-length C. Walker dress.

[iakynthi]

Thank you all for the interesting information on the sapphire earrings
About these last pictures:I really like these pearl earrings,but not this tiara.It's just too big for Diana.Of course,she looks like an angel one more time

[Grace Angel]

Originally Posted by Boris

The avatar picture of Diana wearing them was taken in late 1995, I believe... some evening function where Diana was accompanied by Al Fayed sr., wearing a rarely seen ice blue full-length C. Walker dress.

I know the dress- in Jayne Fincher's book there is a picture of it, but I think with different earings in 1996 ( the diamond ones she wore alot in the last few years of her life, the ones with the loop and with the pearl dangles).

The dress looks much like the the Catharine Walker dress she wore to the sale of her dresses pre-auction party in June 1997- I always wondered if that blue dress seen in 1997 wasn't a shorter version of the gown you are refering to. I've never seen a photo of her before the one I have on my avatar wearing that dress with these earings. Thanks so muh for the info- if anyone could post pictures of this dress ( esp. with these earings), thanks.

[Boris]

The two dresses by Catherine Walker you are referring to are indeed very similar, but not the same.
The embroidery is different, and while the 1997 short cocktail dress was in strong ice blue, the 95/96 full length dress is also in a different color, a more greenish pastel blue - in fact, exactly the color of the aquamarine earrings.

[Grace Angel]

Thanks for the info. To my knowledge no book but the Jayne Fischer book has a photo of this dress ( the one she wore with the earings), and I don't have a copy of it but I will look at the libraries copy of it and see which earings she is wearing with it. Most pictures of her in evening dress the last few years of her are widespread, but photos of that dress are rare. When's the last time she wore the earings, does anybody know- was it in this photo? It might have been.

[PrincessofEurope]

Diana's Jewels fantastic site with some pictures of jewels i had never seen before

[jcbcode99]

I never paid attention to that aquamarine and pearl bracelet--it is beautiful!

[Grace Angel]

I loved the site too- that's the first time I ever saw her in the '80s wearing the ruby loop necklace that she never wore again. It really suited her I thought. There were also other photos I had never seen on that website.

[Boris]

Ayvee's site dianasjewels.net is simply the most complete and reliable source of reference for Princess Diana's jewels.
In short, the best.

[ZUBIAUR]

Beautiful jewels:
http://i30.tinypic.com/2ir2csx.jpg
http://i29.tinypic.com/jf9t2u.jpg
http://i29.tinypic.com/1e1laq.jpg

She is stunning:
http://i29.tinypic.com/2iizcko.jpg
http://i31.tinypic.com/xf3rpf.jpg
http://i29.tinypic.com/16c8lf6.jpg
http://i30.tinypic.com/1ou3ix.jpg
http://i26.tinypic.com/o9jn15.jpg
http://i25.tinypic.com/2hzwhh.jpg
I like this necklace:
http://i31.tinypic.com/5cyf87.jpg

She was so beautiful:
http://i31.tinypic.com/1s1o4i.jpg
http://i25.tinypic.com/1h6qf9.jpg
http://i30.tinypic.com/2igkvbk.jpg
http://i31.tinypic.com/245y7pl.jpg
http://i29.tinypic.com/zwcl0j.jpg
http://i25.tinypic.com/s4wieh.jpg

[rubies]

Even though Diana only had 2 tiaras to use they were both really stunning!!!

[iowabelle]

Originally Posted by ZUBIAUR

She is stunning:
http://i29.tinypic.com/2iizcI like this necklace:
http://i31.tinypic.com/5cyf87.jpg

Did you know that she had only borrowed that necklace and it was later sold?