Prince William gives Kate his Mum's engagement ring

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He says it is to make him feel like his mother is part of the wedding which, under the circumstances is a completely understandable sentiment. Must have been awful for him to lose her at such a young age and difficult now to get married without her being there. Not sure I would fancy that ring if I were the soon to be Princess Catherine though, given the way Chas and Diana's marriage turned out.

That said, she was hardly in a position to knock it back I suppose.

i'm sure I can remember something about when Diana's will was read that she left the jewels/rocks to william and harry to be passed to future wives.

It's hardly a good luck charm, is it?

Ugliest ring yadayada..., very 80s, etc. - such imbecile, utter nonsence could almost be amusing to read. If it wasn't so pitifully moronic.
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Seems a WAG-type bling[boak] would have been more acceptable, like, to some, innit

Apparently Diana developed bulimia during the engagement because she realised Charles was still in love with Camilla. Happy times...

Wow! I don't think its sweet at all. I think it is clumsy and thoughtless - this was one of the most famously unhappy marriages of our time. Why would you want to give your beloved a trinket from that miserable union?

Am amusing myself right now by trying to make sense (or is that sence?) of Rollmops' post.

I would not be happy about it if I were her. I would want something either ancient, or something "we" chose ourselves. It makes me shudder the thought of Kate having to wear THAT ring.

Yes, but you can see the sentiment behind it.

Thing is, some people look at that ring and think "symbol of unhappy marriage". William obviously looks at that same ring and thinks "Mum". Maybe he remembers it on her finger when he was a child? As it was her engagement ring, it's something she probably wore all/most of the time, so is probably intimately connected to her in his mind.

What I find disgusting is that Kate will now officially be known as "Princess William", which is WRONG WRONG WRONG on so many leve.s

Mind you, the ring would be the least of my worries. How can it possibly be a completely equal relationship marrying into the royal family? Maybe they have got better/more normal but they treated Diana and Fergie really badly

Like Princess Michael of Kent? God.

I I saw it in a Sky headline earlier. Princess Michael of Kent's first name isn't Michael (though I did think that for many years )

I think its nice. We used my Grandma's wedding ring when we got married. Six months after my Grandma and Grandpa got married he went off to fight in WW2, was captured in Singapore and spent 3.5 years in a prisoner of war camp. Which certainly isn't how I hoped my married life woule be! But it didn't stop me using her ring.

I'm sure Di had other rings. perhaps one of those would have had the good bits of teh symbolism (ie Di) and not the bad(ie the marriage).

not that I care. a hoot. honest.

i dont get the problem with it, the ring is just a ring, it doesnt signify anything more, their marriage isnt doomed just because he has passed on his mothers ring - its just a ring, it doesnt possess magical powers, its not a curse - its just a piece of jewellery and i dont see the problem tbh. im sure if she hadnt wanted to wear it she would have said long before now. good luck to them.

I think it is a really sweet sentiment.

I reckon they will be really happy together.

i think its a bad omen also like said b4 it was a symbol of one of the unhappiest marriges in modern history, what struck a chord with me though is that the news said several times today that she will now be referred to as katherine not kate, so he or royals have changed her name and she not even married yet.
i feel for her she's not even signed dotted line yet they are already taking her identity.

the thing is - it's not just a ring - william didn;t give it to Kate because he (or she) likes sapphires - he gave it symbolically.

I love the fact they're talking about this very thing on newsnight. ooo for a bit of high brow trivia.

it might be for the rest of us dittany - but for him it's his MOTHER's ring.

I would like to think, that if I had a ring that my exH gave me (I don't I lost it [blush[ - which was a shame actually as it was a lovely ring in it's own right.....but that's by the by) and I were to die. That my DS's would view that ring as something that belonged to me. Not a symbol of our dreadful marriage.

I would not want that life for my dd. You might get the fame and the riches, but her life will never, ever be truly hers again. It is a lot to take on.