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Kate’s Jewelry Box: The Lola Blue Topaz Hoop Earrings

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Kate wears her Lola Blue Topaz Hoop Earrings (Photo: Ian Gavan/Getty Images)

The Duchess of Cambridge’s jewelry collection includes a growing number of earrings from British jewelry designer Kiki McDonough — some petite, some statement. Today’s earrings, the Lola Blue Topaz Hoops, definitely fall into the latter category.

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Kate wore the earrings in public for the first time in July 2012. She debuted them at a Buckingham Palace reception ahead of the London Olympic Games. The earrings fit neatly with her “ring” jewelry aesthetic for Olympic events.

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The earrings are described on the Kiki McDonough website as “stunning blue topaz and diamond hoops in 18ct white gold.” The earrings are actually a double hoop: a large ring of alternating blue topazes and diamonds suspended from a much smaller, diamond-studded hoop. The pair retails on the website for £3,200.

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Kate wore the earrings again in July 2012 for a creative industries reception at the Royal Academy of Arts.

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She also demonstrated the versatility of the earrings in November 2014, wearing them with an evening gown for the Royal Variety Performance.

Serpentine Summer Party Jewels

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Serpentine Summer Party Jewels (Photos: Eamonn M. McCormack/Getty Images)

It’s that time again, everybody — the Serpentine Gallery has thrown their annual summer party in London. We often see the Yorks in attendance, but this year, no dice. Even so, we’ve got jewels from three royals-adjacent to scrutinize today.

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Lady Amelia Windsor, granddaughter of the Duke and Duchess of Kent, is out and about more and more in society these days. For the summer party, she wore classic gold hoop earrings..

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…with a glittering bracelet on her left wrist…

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… and a pair of bracelets on her right wrist: a chain-link gold bracelet and a purple-toned cuff.

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Princess Diana’s niece, Lady Kitty Spencer, was also at the party. She kept her jewelry fairly minimal, wearing a glittering pair of earrings.

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She also wore rings on both hands, including this very sparkly ring on her right.

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And finally, we’ve got Cressida Bonas: good friend of Princess Eugenie, ex-girlfriend of Prince Harry, and granddaughter of the 6th Earl Howe. (Also, as I learned while watching the new adaptation of Doctor Thorne recently — actual working actress!) You can just see a hint of gold earring peeking through Cressida’s hair.

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Her bracelets and rings were a bit more exciting. Here are the two rings she wore on her right hand…

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And the elaborate gold cuff bracelet and simple, sparkling ring she wore on her left.