To wonder why Kate doesn't wear Diana's jewellry

[funnyperson]

Am I the only one wondering why Kate often goes with minimal or no jewellry when Camilla is dripping with them, and wondering what happened to all Diana's lovely jewels and why they haven't been handed down to Kate.
Is it because it has all gone to Camilla or is it because it all went to the butler, or is it because Kate/William doesn't like wearing jewellry?

[Graciescotland]

DH gave me (deceased) MIL engagement ring for our engagement. I thought it was sweet as it was a treasured possession.

[startail]

Yes I wear some of DMILs earrings, we had the same taste in slightly mad earrings and DSIL doesn't have pierced ears.

[MoreCowbell]

www.whatkatewore.com talks about Kate's jewellery sometimes.

[IAmBooybilee]

why would you want to wear the jewellery of a dead person whom you'd never met just because it's there?

no, you buy your own jewellery or wear stuff you have been bought. and if you aren't into jewellery you dont.

[IAmBooybilee]

also, should she wear diana's dresses too? what about her pyjamas? swimming suit? no, too far?

[Ozziegirly]

I'd wear a lot of tiaras if I was (basically) a princess.

Fuck the proles! Bring me my shiny trinkets!

[OutragedAtThePriceOfFreddos]

I think it's quite horrible the way people are going on about a 'dead person'.

Diana was the mother of the man Kate loves, she probably has a lot of respect for that. I expect the engagement ring thing meant a lot to William, he wasn't just recycling a dead persons stuff to save a few quid.

I don't have daughters, but I hope if I have dils and GDs they don't look at my stuff as just belonging to a dead person when I'm gone.

[TroublesomeEx]

Maybe she just doesn't like jewellery. Not every one does.

Maybe she doesn't suit Diana's 1980s jewellery. It would be really dated, she's really young.

Maybe Kate has said "fuck off, I'm not wearing that nasty looking shit! I'm off to waitrose to buy some naice ham"

Maybe I don't really give a shit.

[IAmBooybilee]

well the fact it, she is dead, and she dies under very tragic and well documented circumstances. her death affected the entire nation and yes, kate never met her so yes i think kate has every right to feel a bit odd about wearing her jewellery for any number of reasons including those i've mentioned.

jewellery can be a very personal thing holding a massive amount of sentimental value. to be given my mother's jewellery would be a massive gift to me. i would feel very uncomfortable being given the jewellery of a woman i had never met and who had no say in that jewellery being given to me.

[Mrsjay]

I was creeped out when she got the engagement ring I know it was william's gesture of remembering his mum , but the marriage seemed doomed from the start , I think kate is trying to be demure and not flashy and not wearing 'bling' shows that , I dont think Diana owned all of her jewels anyway i think they were Royal jewels , and i guess kate wants to be her own person/duchess not the peoples Princess

[CruCru]

I thought she was rather clever to accept Diana's ring.

• It presumably meant a lot to her husband
  
• it looks as though they are being thrifty
  
• No one will criticise her taste - because she chose it
  
• it may be that grand families with lots of old family jewels think the single diamond on platinum that is fashionable now is hideously vulgar and new money - her family are already considered new money.
  

Apart from anything else, isn't Diana's ring worth about half a million these days? That's enough bling without any more.

[OutragedAtThePriceOfFreddos]

I expect that if Diana had known she was about to die, she would have realised that her jewellery would be passed to her children, and would have been able to make a fairly educated assumption that it would probably end up on her daughter in laws at some point.

[IAmBooybilee]

that doesn't mean she would have like the idea. nor does it mean kate has to like it or accept the jewellery.

[Longtalljosie]

I think Kate gets very good advice, and (importantly) takes it.

She wears a great deal of affordable (or at least, not insanely aspirational) High St British fashion. When she wears designers, they are invariably British as well. She, Wills and their advisors are - I think - very aware of the times they live in and the need for affection from the public to shore up the future of the monarchy. I would argue that wearing jewels with telephone number price tags which have been in the family for years would distract from a carefully crafted (and nothing wrong with that) message.

[funnyperson]

You're right, she is a different style to Diana -much more understated.
That said, I'd love to see her looking royal in diamonds.

[funnyperson]

And its also about what her mum in law and Charles are generous enough to give her. I don't see why they should be let off because they are royal. In fact I think they should give her more jewellry not less.

[CruCru]

I would love a tiara. I used to have one (rhinestone) when I was 18 and wore it when I went clubbing. I gave it to a friend for her hen do and never got it back.

If I had one I would dance around the house wearing it. [bit random emoticon].

[CruCru]

In fact I might just buy one on the Internet now.

[jkklpu]

um, do you not get out much?

[PorkyandBess]

If I had been presented with that gopping engagement ring, I'd have been secretly, 'noooooo! I want a nice one!!'

[sensuallettuce]

To be fair to Kate - she is one of very few people who could manage to make "that" ring look classy

When you are wearing that whopping thing its hard to wear anything else without looking like you are totally over egging the desert on the jewellery front.

[CruCru]

Jkklpu - was that to me? An average amount I suppose .

[DontmindifIdo]

I think most of the jewellery that Diana wore was borrowed from the Royal collection, I thought that all of that except the engagement ring went back to the Queen (the engagement ring was a gift, the rest was a loan).

I also heard that her will was more generous to Harry than William on the grounds that William would one day be Prince of Wales and then King so would always have a large income, where as Harry would recieve a great deal less through his life as the younger brother, and might need it more. Therefore, it's possible that William doesn't own the jewellery that Diana owned (rather than the bits borrowed), so we need to wait for Harry to get married to see those again.

[McHappyPants2012]

Princess Diana shocked the world with the non-traditional engagment ring in the first place

[aquashiv]

......emmm perhaps because it looks like ths sort of tat you might have purchased in Ratners in the 80's?