Shortly after Kate and William became engaged, it was reported that Kate had made slight modifications to the iconic blue stone. "'Then one day that ring will be sat on the throne of England.'" It's believed that Kate altered the ring-slightly. "Harry said to him: 'Wouldn’t it be fitting if she had mummy’s ring?'" Burrell recalled. More than a decade later, though, Harry reportedly offered the ring to William, so he could use it to propose to Kate. "So I went to the safe and gave Harry Diana’s engagement ring." " 'I remember when I held mummy's hand when I was a small boy and that ring always hurt me because it was so big,'" Burrell recalled in the 2017 Amazon documentary The Diana Story. In 1997, after Diana passed away, it was reported that she had stipulated in her will that her sons would inherit nearly all of her jewelry “so that their wives may, in due course, have it or use it.” As a result, Prince William inherited a Cartier watch owned by his mother, while Harry received her engagement ring, according to her former butler Paul Burrell. But it originally belonged to Prince Harry.
"It was my way of making sure 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." It was only right the two were put together," William told ITV. "It's my mother's engagement ring and it's very special to me, as Kate is very special to me now as well.
"I literally would not let it go, everywhere I went I was keeping hold of it because I knew this thing, if it disappeared, I would be in a lot of trouble."Ī few weeks later, on November 16, 2010, the pair announced the big news-and Kate showed off the 12-carat sapphire ring. "And when deciding where best to propose to Catherine, I could think of no more fitting place than Kenya to get down on one knee." But he wasn't always sure that moment would be so magical: "I had been carrying around with me in my rucksack for about three weeks before ," William revealed in the couple's first interview after becoming engaged. "The African continent holds a very special place in my heart, it is the place my father took my brother and me shortly after our mother died," William said at an event earlier this year. In October 2010, William popped the question to his then-girlfriend Kate Middleton while on vacation in Mount Kenya. (In the decades since, Queen Elizabeth II has been spotted wearing the blingy brooch on several occasions, including to William's christening.) While no one knows for sure, some believe Diana chose the blue bauble because it reminded her of her mother's engagement ring, while others insist she picked it because it had the biggest stone. "She found she loved it so much that she decided to wear it on her wedding day as her something blue on the front of her dress," Garrard's current creative director, Sara Prentice, told Vogue. Instead, he let Diana pick her own ring from a selection of designs by Garrard, the then crown jeweler.įrom those, Diana picked the sapphire-and-diamond cluster Marguerite ring, which was inspired by a sapphire-and-diamond brooch Prince Albert had asked Garrard to create as a present for his future wife, Queen Victoria, in 1840. " Perhaps that was in part because he proposed without an engagement ring. "I remember thinking, this is a joke, and I said ‘Yeah, OK,’ and laughed. “He said ‘Will you marry me?’ and I laughed," Diana told journalist Andrew Morton while being interviewed for her biography Diana: Her True Story. On February 6, 1981, Charles popped the question during a private dinner at Buckingham Palace.
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