The Late Princess Diana draped herself in sparkling stones she adored at every opportunity, from family heirlooms to pieces borrowed from the Spencers’ favourite jeweler Collingwood, ensuring a dazzling appearance that captivated everyone in the room - August 7, 2017

Princess Diana is pictured in Hong Kong in 1989, wearing a pearl and diamond tiara that was a wedding gift from the Queen



Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge in 2016, she's wearing The Cambridge Lover’s Knot Tiara is the family heirloom.  In December 2015, royal watchers were delighted to see the Duchess of Cambridge dust it off for the Queen’s annual diplomatic reception at Buckingham Palace. Then again in 2016.

The Spencer family tiara was Princess Diana's favorite and she wore it on her wedding day. It features large gold scrolling foliage adorned with tulips, stars and a central heart, each decorated with diamonds and set in silver. A similar headpiece was recently sold by the family for £185,000

Princess Diana selected this antique diamond necklace and matching girandole earrings for engagement portraits taken by Lord Snowdon. Jewellers Collingwood wanted to present her with the diamond set as a wedding gift, but Buckingham Palace officials declared such a valuable gift was inappropriate. Instead, the jeweler gave Princess Diana a pair of diamond and pearl earrings. However Princess Diana continued to borrow the set, wearing the necklace for King Khalid of Saudi Arabia’s visit to London in June 1981.

Little is known about this eye-catching arrow shaped brooch featuring diamonds and sapphires that Princess Diana fashioned into a necklace for an America’s Cup Ball at the Grosvenor House Hotel in 1986. Her flamenco-style dress was by Murray Arbeid, her earrings were faux onyx stones from her favorite costume jeweler, Butler and Wilson, and she wore mismatched gloves (one black and another red), setting the tone for her most fashion-forward years.

Heirloom: from left, Queen Elizabeth II in the tiara in 1958; Princess Diana in 1991; and the Duchess of Cambridge in 2016. The Cambridge Lover’s Knot Tiara (sometimes known as the Queen Mary Lover’s Knot) is thought to be worth around £500,000
The tiara comprises diamonds and pearls from Queen Mary’s personal collection, set in silver and arranged in 19 arches capped with bows (or ‘lovers’ knots’), resting on a circular band of diamonds. On Mary’s death in 1953, it passed to her granddaughter Queen Elizabeth II. A spokesman for Garrard says Diana wore the tiara ‘an awful lot’, mostly for presidential banquets, gala dinners and formal portraits.
She felt it lent her a suitably regal air, but in private complained of its weight and said it gave her headaches if worn for too long.
After Princess Diana's divorce from Prince Charles in 1996, the tiara returned to the Windsor vault. In December 2015, royal watchers were delighted to see the Duchess of Cambridge dust it off for the Queen’s annual diplomatic reception at Buckingham Palace. Then again in 2016.

Princess Diana pulled out all the stops for this encounter with actress Elizabeth Taylor in 1982. She chose a glittering diamond flower cluster necklace featuring graduated floral diamond patterns.
The necklace, featuring graduated floral diamond patterns, was mid-way between a pendant and a choker, meaning it was particularly flattering on Princess Diana. Although she generally preferred shorter necklaces as they showed off her long neck and elegant shoulders.

The diamond- encircled round watch face is joined to a strap with loops of diamonds and was a wedding gift to Queen Elizabeth II in 1947 from Switzerland. The Queen wore the watch often in her youth, once showing it off over a pair of black satin gloves. It was among the many wedding presents Queen Elizabeth II bestowed upon Princess Diana in 1981. She is seen wearing it here attending a gala dinner in Washington during 1985. The tiny gleaming stones mirror the crystals on the shoulder of her white silk gown.

This striking choker and crescent-shaped earrings — part of a set which also included a diamond bracelet — were given to Princess Diana by the Sultan of Oman during the royal couple’ s tour of the Gulf States in 1986. Pictured here at a charity performance of Cinderella at the Royal Opera House in 1987, Princess Diana adored the distinctly modern design.

This diamond flower featuring a central stone and 18 diamond ‘petals’ was passed to Princess Diana following the death of her friend Adrian Ward-Jackson from Aids at the age of just 41. She wore it to his memorial

Princess Diana paired this elegant diamond necklace featured a single strand of glittering stones fused together at the front to make an asymmetric vertical drop from her mother's collection with her wedding earrings as she attended the first royal black tie event of her young life in 1981
Paradoxically, Princess Diana later learned the importance of not wearing jewelry with her many low-cut and strapless gowns. These dresses had necklines which seemed to beg for diamond chokers or pendants, but she soon came to realize the power of a bare décolletage.

The King Faisal of Saudi Arabia necklace was chosen by Princess Diana for an event in Australia in 1983. Queen Elizabeth II, who adored the necklace, lent the piece for the royal couple’s tour Down Under in 1983 and is a fringe design with drop diamonds set with additional slender ‘baguette’ and rhombus-shaped ‘brilliant’ diamonds.
Made by American ‘jeweler to the stars’ Harry Winston, it was given to the Queen as a gift by the Arab monarch during his visit to Britain in 1967.

Princess Diana in 1991 was wearing The Cambridge Lover’s Knot Tiara family heirloom.
The tiara comprises diamonds and pearls from Queen Mary’s personal collection, set in silver and arranged in 19 arches capped with bows (or ‘lovers’ knots’), resting on a circular band of diamonds. On Mary’s death in 1953, it passed to her granddaughter Queen Elizabeth II. A spokesman for Garrard says Princess Diana wore the tiara ‘an awful lot’, mostly for presidential banquets, gala dinners and formal portraits.
She felt it lent her a suitably regal air, but in private complained of its weight and said it gave her headaches if worn for too long. After her divorce from Prince Charles in 1996, the tiara returned to the Windsor vault.

Queen Elizabeth II in The Cambridge Lover's Knot Tiara in 1958
The most magnificent heirloom worn by Princess Diana — or any of the younger royals to date — the Cambridge Lover’s Knot Tiara (sometimes known as the Queen Mary Lover’s Knot) is thought to be worth around half a million pounds.
It came into her possession via the Queen, who gave the diamond and pearl-drop headpiece to her new daughter-in-law as a rather generous wedding present.
The tiara’s history can be traced back to 1818, when it was given as a wedding present to the German bride of the Duke of Cambridge, King George III’s seventh son. Passed down several generations, the tiara eventually caught the eye of Queen Mary, wife of George V, who had her own copy made by the royal jeweler Garrard.
The tiara comprises diamonds and pearls from Queen Mary’s personal collection, set in silver and arranged in 19 arches capped with bows (or ‘lovers’ knots’), resting on a circular band of diamonds. On Mary’s death in 1953, it passed to her granddaughter Queen Elizabeth II. A spokesman for Garrard says Princess Diana wore the tiara ‘an awful lot’, mostly for presidential banquets, gala dinners and formal portraits.

Princess Diana made these two bracelets from a tassel necklace containing alternating square-cut diamonds and sapphires. The Princess debuted the bracelets at a concert at Versailles in 1994, paired with a halterneck green and black dress by Catherine Walker.

Princess Diana in a stylish midnight blue choker was worn for more than a decade, first at a competition for young pianists in Newport, Wales, in 1985
This pieces made from reset sapphires from the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia suite was a stylish midnight blue velvet choker.
The oval sapphire came from the ring, and the surrounding diamond sunray frame from the watch. A three-deep chain of tiny diamonds was added on either side to run halfway along the velvet. Though she had more than enough diamonds and sapphires to run the gems around the back of the choker, Princess Diana decided to focus attention on the huge blue stone at the front.
The piece was backed only by Velcro, which, while not hugely secure, allowed the Princess to take it on and off easily.

Princess Diana wearing a sleek midnight blue Catherine Walker gown, her hair slicked back in a ‘duckbill’ do, she finished her new look with ‘the necklace that stunned the world' with these striking sapphire and diamond drop earrings, during a 24-hour visit to New York in 1995.  She also chose to wear them for a Vogue cover shoot to mark her 33rd birthday in 1994



Princess Diana rose eyebrows at a State banquet in 1986 by deciding to wear the choker as headband,  paired with a sapphire blue flowing gown and matching earrings, at a State banquet hosted by the Emperor of Japan.

Princess Diana decided to mix and matched her jewelry during an official visit to Seoul in 1992. The earrings comprised an unusual round-shaped gem attached to a pearl drop and were in two stones: rubies and sapphires



Princess Diana, elegant in a white lace dress and matching satin clutch, The Princess of Wales showed off a new sapphire bracelet at a gala dinner in Washington in September 1996. The bracelet featured eight oval- shaped sapphires surrounded by twinkling diamonds. On her other wrist, Princess Diana wore the sapphire bracelet she received as a wedding gift from the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, as well as the sunray diamond and sapphire earrings from the same set, which were set off beautifully by her white, exquisitely beaded dress.

Princess Diana made no secret of expressing her personality through her jewelry — and this quirky pair of mismatched earrings is the perfect example. Princess Diana owned the earrings, comprising an unusual round-shaped gem attached to a pearl drop, in two stones: rubies and sapphires. She’s thought to have been given them on one of her many international tours in the late Eighties.
For this outing, during an official visit to Seoul, South Korea, in 1992, she decided to mix and match — wearing a ruby earring in her right ear and a sapphire in her left. Perhaps she had packed one of each color by mistake. Or, more likely — judging by the glint in her eye — the playful Princess was making a fashion statement.

Princess Diana in this dazzling diamond necklace was a wedding gift from the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, a man she had never met, and was by far the most magnificent of her 12,000 wedding presents. Made by Asprey, the suite comprised a huge Burmese sapphire pendant set in a jagged sunray fringe of diamonds

Princess Diana in this eye-catching seven-strand choker with a gleaming, diamond-surrounded blue stone in its center. This huge and distinctive oval stone originated in Sri Lanka and was worn as brooch by Princess Diana for a banquet at Hampton Court Palace hosted by Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands in 1982. Princess Diana was not a fan of brooches, however, early the following year Princess Diana had it refashioned into ‘the necklace - most likely with the help of the Spencer family jeweler Collingwood that stunned the world' shortly after. The oval stone set amid seven strands of shimmering pearls became one of her most iconic pieces of jewelry, she often paired with sapphire or pearl drop earrings.

Princess Diana's favorite earring were these Saudi Arabian sapphires surrounded by ten diamond. They were worn to mark Prince Harry's birth in 1984 and later given by Prince William to Kate to mark their engagement in 2010
They’re believed to have come from the strap of the watch she was given as a wedding present from the Saudi Crown Prince, recognizable because of the rare faceted sapphires.
The earrings originally featured four sapphire and diamond clusters — two of which were detachable pendant drops — but Princess Diana preferred to wear the earrings without the extra sapphires.
The earrings became part of Princess Diana’s bequest to her sons. Shortly after their engagement in 2010, Prince William gave them to Kate Middleton, who put her own twist on them with a drop style.

These earrings — a single Saudi Arabian sapphire surrounded by ten round diamonds — became Princess Diana’s favorites, later given by Prince William to Kate Middleton to mark their engagement in 2010,  who put her own twist on them with a drop style.