As we’ve seen over the past few weeks, the Duchess of Cambridge’s jewelry box is brimming with jewels set with precious and semi-precious stones. But she’s also been loaned several pieces of jewelry by her grandmother-in-law, Queen Elizabeth II. Today’s diamond chandelier earrings are among those borrowed jewels.
Kate first wore the earrings during the Cambridges’ 2011 visit to Los Angeles. During that event, the press revealed that the earrings were on loan from the Queen, something later confirmed to royal blogger Anna by Richard Palmer of the Express. The earrings feature delicate diamonds in a chandelier design surrounding a large pear-shaped diamond.
We saw the earrings on Kate for a second time as she arrived for the 2013 diplomatic reception at Buckingham Palace, and for a third time at the state banquet held for the Chinese president in 2015. On both occasions, Kate wore them with the Lotus Flower Tiara.
Kate wore the earrings again for the diplomatic reception in December 2015, pairing them this time with the Lover’s Knot Tiara. By this point, the earrings appeared to be a firm, long-term jewel loan from the Queen to Kate. To my knowledge, although the earrings belong to the Queen, we’ve never seen a photo of the Queen wearing them.
Kate has worn the earrings on occasion in the years that followed as well. In May 2016, she wore them during the Queen’s 90th birthday celebrations in Windsor.
A few weeks later, Kate wore the earrings again for a fundraising event at Houghton Hall in Norfolk.
She also wore the earrings for a dinner at the British Embassy in Paris during her 2017 visit to France.
And though they were hidden in her hair, the earrings also accompanied Kate to a charity performance of the musical Dear Evan Hansen in London in February 2020.
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