Wow, she was great with jewelry. Especially gifted in beauty.
Tell me: why don't the British wear sashes? All other European royals wear sashes on official events. (I know that Diana and Charles wore sashes in the last picture, but that's pretty much the only one.)
This undated photo shows a pearl and diamond necklace worn by Britain's Princess Diana at her last official engagement on June 3, 1997 at a performance of Swan Lake at Royal Albert Hall in London. The necklace and pair of matching earrings will be auctioned with a starting price of $500,000 by Guernsey's in New York on December 16. The necklace has 164 diamonds and five large South Sea pearls, and was created in the London workshop of Asprey and Garrard.
This undated photo shows a pearl and diamond necklace worn by Britain's Princess Diana at her last official engagement on June 3, 1997 at a performance of Swan Lake at Royal Albert Hall in London. The necklace and pair of matching earrings will be auctioned with a starting price of $500,000 by Guernsey's in New York on December 16. The necklace has 164 diamonds and five large South Sea pearls, and was created in the London workshop of Asprey and Garrard.
The Spencer tiara is owned by the head of the Spencer family. Diana was allowed to wear it by her father and her brother, but she never owned it. It, like Althorp, stays with the head of the family. It's one of two tiaras that the family currently owns (the other one is hideous), and was worn by Diana's sisters at their weddings and her sister-in-law, Victoria at her's.
Considering the bad blood between the Spencers and the Windsors, it's unlikely that William's wife will be allowed to borrow the tiara. She'll get enough tiaras from the royal family, so she won't need to borrow from her husband's uncle.
The latest photo of an oval sapphire and diamond pendant (wearing pink dress) - that pendant was part of a suite of sapphire jewelry she received as a wedding present from I believe the Saudi Arabian royal family. That suite also included what you see as a sapphire and diamond choker a few posts up - it has been reported that was actually a bracelet which she "made" into a choker.
The modern style diamond and sapphire necklace a posts above (3:43 pm) was also a fabulous wedding gift from one of the eastern royal families. I think the same is true for the necklace above.
Originally Posted by micas,Jan 7th, 2004 - 6:30 am
AND THIS SOMEONE SOMETHING. DIANA WEAR A LOT THIS SUITE OF JEWELS. IN THIS PIC YOU CAN REALISE THAT SHE IS WEARING A EARRINGS VERY LOOK ALIKE THE OTHERS SAPPHIRES EARRINGS FRON THE SUITE POST FOR MIA. BUT THIS ARE TWO SAPPHIRES AND NOT ONE.
The jewels (including the earrings that look like the sapphire set) that Diana are wearing in this picture are amethysts not sapphires. BTW, the amethyst are cabochons. There is speculation that this set was also a gift. Not sure where or when though, maybe from the Middle East.
Originally posted by micas@Jan 6th, 2004 - 6:30 am Someone met this jewel???????????
REGARDING THE RUBIES: Thanks, gals, for straightening me out about the suite of "amethysts and cabochons". I've always wondered about "those particular jewels" and their "origin". However, right now, I'd like to address Diana's wearing "rubies". She very rarely wore rubies. I think (and, I really mean "think") that Princess Anne wore this particular necklace of "rubies" which Diana is wearing in the photo with the stapless back evening gown. However, the design of this necklace is "kind of similar" to the design of the Saudi diamond and sapphire necklace which goes with the "half moon" diamond and sapphire earrings.
She waited an awful long time to wear "rubies" in public, but after her separation from PC, on a trip to Venice, she walks up the gangplank from a small motorboat (where a lot of paps are waiting for her) wearing one of the most beautiful ruby and diamond necklace I have ever seen.
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