to think that William giving Kate Diana's ring is just plain odd.

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When you consider what that ring represents ... an unhappy marriage to a man who never loved her but instead loved someone else and a resulting divorce.

Am not even sure that the fact she is dead cancels that out tbh.

I was thinking that. I know it's trad with that lot and their canny recycling etc, but yup, does not augur well.

i wouldn't want to wear it.

Plus it looks like something out of Elizabeth Duke - even though it's worth a mint.

He gave his future wife something that reminds him of his mother, a woman that he not only loved by is unable to make any mistakes,. I think it's nice.

I agree.

Plus it's bloody ugly!

good point, but if wills turns out to be a good husband then maybe he wants to change what the ring represents ? lol

I wear my MIL ring from her marriage to DH's father, which ended in divorce 25 years ago. I see it as a beautiful gesture from his mother to both of us. YABU. MIL is very much alive btw.

I agree with TheFeministParent.

It's not odd at all. And let's face it, that's a fucking big rock.

yabu. It's obviously very important to him and people use family rings all the time.

Kate's lucky Burrell didn't nick it along with all the other stuff...

And let's face it; if he'd gone out and bought a new one, the anti-monarchists would be flaming him for wasting tax payers money.

It is odd on the face of it. But it means something different to us (who didn't know her) than it does to him.

i thought that too.

on one hand its nice that he gave her his mum's engagement ring, but on the other hand it couldnt have been much of a marriage as prince charles dumped her for someone who looks like a horse :o

YABU - in his interview he said it was to include his mother in in some way.

He's a young man who lost his mother as a child. I think it's a lovely gesture actually.

They all look like horses, super.

Hopefully, Little Miss Kate will halt the facial elongation.

I totally agree.

Surely it is the engagement ring OF THE MARRIAGE - and all the cheating and flinging themselves down the stairs that went with it?

At first sight it seems odd - represents a sad unhappy unsuccessful marriage, etc.

But then it turns out Diana chose it herself (from a 'standard' catalogue - never even had a catalogue with something worth £28,000 in, let alone the actual thing!) so it means even more to William I should think.

Not my style, but i quite like it :)

He said that he gave her that ring as it made him feel that his mother is included in all the excitement etc. whats wrong with that? I think its a lovely gesture- it obviously means something special to him.

it might have been a bad marriage but it was the one that produced William. So it can't be entirely negative for him can it?

To Prince William it represents his beloved late mother, surely? I think it's a huge sign of love and, yes, trust, because rings are not generally returned, are they?

but to william it doesn't represesnt a bad adulterous marriage that eventuallu broke.

to him it represents his mother, who he loved greatly. to hi it represents her presence in the proceediings.

To him i think it makes her part of the day/marriage.

plus it does save the tax payer a few grand. never a bad thing given the fact the wedding is likely to cost millions.

though i agree it is bloody ugly.

I think its nice. Its was his mothers he no doubt misses her and he inherited it, so nice to give it to Kate.

I don't think the adulterous marriage point is that relevant. Sort of like this gives the ring a second chance.

I think it's a lovely gesture and would have been really surprised, shocked even if he hadn't have given her the ring.

Although to us, the members of the public, the ring represents an unhappy marriage, to him, it's his mothers ring, who he loved/s and wants to give to the women he loves and wants to spend the rest of his life with. And besides, it's quite traditional in some families to pass the engagement ring down, so it's really not that extraordinary a thing to do