Royal style & gossip: What a smashing, positively dashing spectacle - the Ascot opening day

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Obviously today's the second day of Ascot but given Kate's outfit yesterday, I felt a My Fair lady tribute was fitting!

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The ring was beautiful before. It doesn’t look at all the same now. The diamonds look smaller. I prefer the setting of it in its original style, but I don’t think Harry is buying me a ring too, so it doesn’t matter.

To me it has made the ring look the same as anyone else can have. You can get the same look from Pandora, Argos, H .Samuels any shop in the high street or online.
The sentiment, time and love that Harry put into designing the ring has for me been demeaned . I would be so thrilled my beloved had designed a ring for me , l could never change it . Just my thoughts . It is her ring to do whatever she likes with but l fear for the fate of other pieces given to her especially any of Diana's. The Aquamarine ring that Harry gave Meghan is such an iconic piece of Diana , l would hate it to be altered in any way. I love Kate Middleton wearing Diana's engagement ring and to be fair to her she wears it always, wherever she goes and it pleases me to see her doing that . I don't know perhaps l am a fuddy duddy and need to move with the times.

I think she’s made it look a bit cheap tbh. Like a piece of costume jewellry.

I also admire Kate for wearing the engagement ring when it’s probably quite uncomfortable. I bet she takes it off as soon as she gets home.

“The sentiment, time and love that Harry put into designing the ring has for me been demeaned”

Did he design it? He chose the stones, I know,....

I feel sorry for DoC wearing Diane's old engagement ring. I never liked the ring though, and she may love, it but it's just so dated. I'd love to have seen her get a new ring, and use the engagement ring as a dress ring instead.

Maybe her actual engagement ring doesn't fit at the moment and it's a lookalike? Or a day ring to stop the other one getting damaged?

Actually, I think Kate wearing Diana’s engagement ring is deeply weird. It’s lovely. But it was such a doomed marriage. And as it’s such an iconic, recognisable jewel, it must send shivers down the spines of most of the royal family every time they see it....

''it must send shivers down the spines of most of the royal family every time they see it''

Do we know this? Maybe they encouraged the idea?

Yes I think it's weird too re the wearing Diana's ring. Especially considering what we know now of the misery behind it. Surely you'd want something without the baggage?

I think Kate carries it off splendidly though , l couldn't imagine anyone else being able to wear it but to me it's perfect on her.

Apparently Harry did indeed design it
www.hellomagazine.com/royalty/2017120744599/prince-harry-engagement-ring-hardest-secret-meghan-markle/
In this interview Meghan says
'"It's beautiful, and he designed it. It's incredible… It's incredibly special'

“Do we know this? Maybe they encouraged the idea?”

Well, no- we don’t actually know anything about anything. But if I had married the mother of my children while being in an ongoing relationship with another woman, and drove her to depression and attempted suicide (allegedly) , I would find seeing the ring I gave her on the hand of my dil over lunch a bit disconcerting.....

It would be uncomfortable if she was still alive somewhere, but the ring you gave your dead ex wife who was used as a rent a womb by you and your family? Yay!

Could Meghan just have put a bit of weight on after having Archie and this new ring is just a temporary one? I had a Diamonique set when I was pregnant / still carrying baby weight as my original set was too tight.

I don’t think Kate wearing Diana’s engagement ring is , I think it’s quite nice really - but I come form the kind of family who would do that because it’s the appropriate thing to do. Just leaving his mothers engagement ring in a drawer with somewhere is not the don’t thing for William I’m sure, and I’m sure it has a sentimental value for him.

I have and wear my mother’s engagement (not as an actual engagement ring) even though their marriage ended very badly and they grate each other. It honours where I come from - as I’m sure Diana’s ring does to William

Well I mean I’m not sure obv but it’s possible he thinks like that

O gosh sorry typos. Also my mum is happy for me to wear her old engagement ring and it doesn’t freak her out as she understands it now means more to me than to her. Sure Charles can hack it.

Oh I think her wearing it is fine- I think it’s beautiful. But as an engagement ring?

Wills family have far more history of passing on family jewellery than most of us so it probably feels normal to him. I much prefer Harry's idea of making a new piece of jewellery from diamonds they already had. Even that's an entirely alien concept to me, we're more of a loose change lying around than diamonds family.

There’s a long tradition in the royal family- and other very rich families of remodelling jewels. I suspect that W&H may not to have remodelled their mother’s engagement ring- they must both remember playing with it as babies. But if I was Kate I wouldn’t have touched it with a barge pole. There must be so much baggage in that family!

Yes I don’t think it’s strange that William proposed with it. To him it would have been his mother ring regardless of how it all ended. Also I always imagine the RF to be like my Protestant family who don’t shy away from ambiguous statements like that. Lovely ring and optimistic new start - also tragic death and divorce

Lol imagine if Kate had turned it down tho! Yeah love it hun but I was thinking something more kind of ME you know...

Diana's ring was quite a generic design, I don't find it weird that Kate now wears it. I think she understands the significance of the ring to William and will treasure it for that reason.

Meghan's ring has no provenance, just the gems, so I suppose the design itself isn't sacrosanct. If I'm honest I think it's a strange thing to do but it seems consistent with her "out with the old, in with the new" reputation. Never mind that in her engagement interview she said it was "perfect", and that Harry designed it, and then he described in detail why he chose the different elements, including the yellow gold.

But if he doesn't mind, I shouldn't.

My DH family is posh (no money tho) and my engagement ring is a remodelled old stone which was a family piece.

Kate having Diana's old ring doesn't seem at all odd.

It’s only odd in context. I have my mother’s engagement ring which I have told ds he can give to his future fiancé if he wants.. But she was happily married for 60 years.

I still think that Kate wearing Diana's engagement ring is weird, the marriage ended in divorce so superstitious me wouldn't have wanted it as an engagement ring. The sapphire is beautiful though. I much prefer Meghan's, the original setting though I'm not as keen on the new version. I do like her slim eternity ring though, I'd like one like that. I've had a ring for each baby but not an eternity......yet!