4 New High Jewelry Collections Inspired by British Royalty
High jewelry pulls rank with five debut baubles that revive the shimmering style of the United Kingdom’s royal women.
U.K.'s royal women all have one thing in common: a seriously enviable jewelry collection. Whether it's Queen Elizabeth II's dazzling brooches, Kate Middleton's iconic blue sapphire engagement ring (which was previously Princess Diana's), or the glittering regalia worn to King Charles III's coronation, these ladies sure know how to make a sparkly statement.
Today, high jewelry houses are taking note of British royal style in their latest collections. From Tiffany & Co. to Harry Winston, here are the maisons' newest creations inspired by the royal women of the United Kingdom. Fair warning: You'll feel like a queen wearing any of these incredible pieces.
She had a passion for high jewelry, yellow diamonds, and Harry Winston—not necessarily in that order. In homage to the duchess of Windsor’s 15 Winston pieces collected from 1946 to 1966 (including the Duchess of Windsor Heart and a pair of pear-shaped canary yellow diamond clips), the maison created a new collection.
The Duchess necklace in the maison’s new Royal Adornments collection features a 40.11-carat flawless fancy intense yellow radiant-cut diamond holding court amid mixed-cut white and yellow diamonds.
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How could the princess imagine, in 1944, that the pair of Boucheron brilliant blue aquamarine and diamond clip brooches given to her on her 18th birthday by her father, King George VI, would become a queen’s adornment just eight years later? Britain’s longest-reigning monarch wore the pair throughout her life.
The French maison pays tribute with the Like a Queen collection inspired by the originals. Rings, earrings, brooches, necklaces, and even hair pieces sing of a father’s doting gesture and a daughter’s shimmering service.
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Those three rows of cultured pearls often photographed encircling her wrist held, it turns out, a poignant story: In 1988, Nigel Milne designed the bracelet as part of a collection supporting a maternal and infant health charity (now called Wellbeing of Women) for which the princess was the patron.
In a tender full-circle moment, the new princess of Wales, Catherine, today wears her mother-in-law’s bracelet, a look beautifully echoed by Mastoloni’s Four Row Deco bracelet of freshwater pearls, white gold, and 55 diamonds.
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No royal occupied the beaches like Princess Margaret—particularly those of Mustique, her treasured Caribbean bolt hole. Fittingly Tiffany & Co. created a scalloped shell brooch of textured gold for her.
Oceanic inspiration strikes again this year as Tiffany revisits Jean Schlumberger’s iconic Surreal Shell brooch. Here, a sculptural shell of 907 square, round brilliant, and custom-cut baguette diamonds dangles from an emerald-cut diamond and removes to reveal a free-form black opal, like a sea-borne treasure spied by a princess strolling the sand.
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