![]() It was only in the 1990s that things changed and the designers of the world’s most precious jewellery let their imaginations take full flight. Since high jewellery was so expensive and destined to be passed down through generation after generation, it was felt it had to be entirely classic in design. Fast-forward to Diana’s sapphire cluster and it was typical of high jewellery in the 1980s which, adds Becker, “was virtually all the three big gemstones (sapphire, ruby and emerald) framed by clusters of diamonds”. ![]() ![]() The sapphire and diamond engagement ring. Prince Albert designed a sapphire cluster brooch as a wedding gift for his young bride, Princess Victoria in 1840 (also created by Garrard). Diana selected an 18-carat ring featuring a single large oval-cut blue sapphire surrounded by 14 small white diamonds. The traditional cluster style in fact had initially gained popularity 150 years earlier thanks to another royal wedding. Prior to her marriage to Prince Charles, she often wore a gold Cartier Russian wedding ring of three yellow gold bands on the little finger of her right hand and a diamond and white gold eternity ring from the family collection on her third finger. Prince Harry was the original inheritor of his mother, Princess Diana's engagement ring, according to the Amazon Prime documentary The Diana Story.Now, the ring sits on Kate Middleton's finger. “It was totally in tune with her style, she was the ultimate Sloane Ranger at the time,” says Becker. Born into an affluent aristocratic family, Diana Spencer owned some high quality jewellery. ![]() Whatever the true reason, her choice, according to jewellery historian and author Vivienne Becker, was entirely a conventional one for the teenage aristocrat.
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