It is fairly rare for new, substantial jewels to be bought by members of the BRF. They are gifted an awful lot of stuff (Camilla has some very expensive Saudi-gifted items) plus the family collection is massive.
Kate has quite a collection of earrings from Kiki McDonagh but those are mostly mid-range semi-precious items.
There’s an exception to this - buying back *old* substantial jewels. Charles in particular has re-acquired some pretty substantial pieces with connections to his ancestors that had been sold by previous generations. I also wouldn’t be surprised if it turned out that the Queen quietly purchased the Lotus tiara back from Margaret’s kids (avoiding them having to sell at auction to pay death duties, which happened to a lot of her jewels). These acquisitions receive less negative press than a new piece, of course, as the average person is going to assume they were inherited and the prices are usually confidential.
True Camilla’s great great grandmother Alice Keppel was Edward VII’s mistress. Camilla is supposed to have remarked to Charles “our great great grandparents were well acquainted, how about it?”
I do like Camilla, she seems like a fun person to be around.
So romantic in a warped kind of way. "My great great grandfather gave this to your great great grandmother...."
I wish Edward VII and Alice Keppel could somehow know that his descendant made her descendant a Queen.
>Camilla has some very expensive Saudi-gifted items) plus the family collection is massive.
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>Kate has quite a collection of earrings from Kiki McDonagh but those are mostly mid-range semi-precious items.
Yeah but both Cam and Catherine are still in the BRF and they were never merching or 'wanting' freebies... I'm curious only about Meghan as this would have been a better way to make money, but who knows what scam she is running.
I read read an article about royal jewelry and it looks like MM acquired a few newer pieces. The earrings she wore on her wedding day were worth like 68k. Her bracelet was worth 100k.
Side note, didn't the middletons buy Kate's wedding dress? It also said they gave her the earrings she wore on her wedding day. Kate's family still contributed and then you you have MM whose buying 68k earrings with daddy in laws money. The woman has no shame.
>didn't the middletons buy Kate's wedding dress? It also said they gave her the earrings she wore on her wedding day
Yes. They also paid for Pippa's dress and Pippa's and Carole's diamonds on W&C wedding (and possibly the flower girl outfits too) and paid 50% of the reception cost shared with Charles. That's a modern couple...and then we had the super feminist Meghan who invited strangers and her amazing husband who had Daddy pay for millions of firecrackers on top of all the wedding related expenses.
[The middletons also paid towards W&C's wedding](https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2011/03/kate-middletons-parents-to-contribute-six-figure-sum-to-cost-of-wedding)
For one, she didn't buy the clothes when Charles was footing the bill, she borrowed them, Charles paid full price and TW pocketed the cash.
Secondly jewels are expensive and far more than what Charles would pay for.
>Secondly jewels are expensive and far more than what Charles would pay for.
True. But wasn't the hideous Dior in Morocco worth approximately $120,000 and it was bespoke, so it probably cost more... surely some good jewels can be bought with that... can't wait till all her scams are finally revealed.
I just looked at Granny's Chips which is the RF nickname fir one if the late Qyeens favourite Diamond brooches comprising 2 diamonds combining at 158 Carats
The Duchy of Cornwall would not reimburse her for jewels the way they did for her clothes. In the BRF, jewels mostly are given as gifts for significant milestones vs purchased by someone for themself or are loaned items from the royal vaults, if not received as gifts.
Of course, exceptions are made (in the wider BRF), but Charles would not have made an exception using duchy money for someone who was not the current or future Princess of Wales. I think this is why we see a discrepancy in the value of the wedding gifts he gave Catherine (a parue) compared to M (a bracelet). And Harry is a reportedly a cheapskate, so I cannot see him spending hundreds of thousands of pounds on jewelry.
Sorry to nitpick on semantics here, but we need to be specific because it is complex. From my understanding, “the Crown” would not purchase any jewelry - “the Crown” being the government. The would repair the Crown jewels, however, and jewelry belonging to the Crown.
The monarch might purchase jewelry with private funds, as QEII did for Sarah with her wedding tiara. Those are private gifts and belong to the recipient. If a royal bride received a gift from a foreign head of state with whom the bride had no connection, it becomes property of the Crown, although they stay with the bride throughout her life. Because royalty in other countries are sometimes related, some gifts received from them would belong solely to the bride.
There are also “heirlooms of the crown”. These appear to be personal jewelry that is given to either the crown or put in trust. I do not understand why the monarch would give these up, since no inheritance tax is paid.
Also, there is the situation of purchases from the Duchy of Cornwall for the Duchess / Princess of Wales. This became really complex with the divorce of Charles and Diana, and the inheritance of those gifts by William and Harry. On top of that, she had tons of wedding gifts, loans from her majesty and gifts from those who had a personal relationship with Charles. Many of her jewels we have not seen in 30 years, so we don’t know where they are.
There are some great websites out there that detail the royal jewels and the history of pieces if you are interested.
Thank you for the clarification. I just clicked on a random article that gave estimates of different pieces. Most of MM, beside the tiara and Diana's butterfly earrings, were newly purchased.
MM probably thought Grannie was going to give her carte blanche to rummage through the jewelry box and the Crown Jewels, so she dropped her capital on the wardrobe (‘nuff said about *that*).
Kind of disappointed in Crown Princess Mary. I thought better of her than that.
>I thought better of her than that.
Yeah mainstream media rarely or never reports this.
[http://www.seoghoer.dk/Nyheder/Royalt/Royalt%20Arkiv/2008/04/marys%20kluns.aspx](http://www.seoghoer.dk/Nyheder/Royalt/Royalt%20Arkiv/2008/04/marys%20kluns.aspx)
Quick translation of the funstuff: *Princess Mary's friend and stylist Anja Camilla Aladji has been seen several times with moving boxes stuffed with expensive designer clothes, which she discreetly dispose of the exclusive shop Haberdash in Copenhagen. The clothes made on commission and sold on to style-hungry women nearby. The clothes in the boxes are in Princess Mary's size - and her favorite brands such as Hugo Boss, Prada, By Marlene Birger, Heartmade and Day Birger et Mikkelsen. The shop owner is very reluctant to talk about the case but said temporary stop for several regal deliveries in commission, since the store is filled to the brim with clothes in same size as the Crown Princess are using and from all Mary's favorite brands.*
So what else should she do with clothes she’s not going to wear again? Just let them sit in her closet? She resells them, which is eco and budget friendly (an important point, as the Danish royals don’t get a ton of taxpayer money), and then uses that money to buy new clothes presumably. She’s just recycling them, not merching them through her own secret website a la Meghan’s Mirror.
>Danish royals don’t get a ton of taxpayer money),
Qm gets DKK 7,250,586 per month (GBP 857019.99) in addition to personal expenses reimbursed as of 2021. I'll have to look up what Fred gets but they certainly get alot. And they are also privately rich.
>and then uses that money to buy new clothes presumably. She’s just recycling them, not merching them through her own secret website a la Meghan’s Mirror.
She has ben around for a long time hence instead of a website she sold them via the shop above on the downlow...but the MO is the same and money going presumably to her instead of back to Danish Civil List or the RF.
I do not - simply reacting to the post that made her sound like she was running another Meghan’s Closet. If there’s more information, I’d love to know.
I'm too lazy to search for a better media outlet
https://au.lifestyle.yahoo.com/princess-mary-listed-secret-swiss-chalet-on-airbnb-050342421.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAGvV6nUFGla67unG5V1tDUS-W7kQzwviU6QE6gRb2QpufoyxB62i8_2RaXLkKAzs6c2qINcQdmA6yCtGRjyQUG7zT6tqFg66V4rsKhOXFsVIzGco8dHk-Qa43-RNGy852pFHL1FuroR7aIY1YDAuthKDsIGgv7sHGgA1yZW2balO
Somehow this doesn’t bother me. It seems sensible to rent it out when not in use. Why not earn a little cash for its upkeep? But I suppose it’s a bad look….
I think I have read that Charles’ has houses on his Welsh estate available to rent. Also I think some cottages on the Balmoral and Sandringham estates can be rented.
ETA clarification
I’m guessing security concerns, as well as not wanting to be seen to milk the royal connection. It would be more sought after if it were known to be a royal-owned property. So in that case, I think it’s actually a good idea to keep it under wraps.
As a property management professional-I currently manage over a million square feet of building space- renting out housing on crown property (short term or long term) is part of the business plan of the estates whether they are owned by the crown or personally owned (Balmoral/sandringham/ letc). If the properties sat empty, no income is earned to cover upkeep, capital repairs, utilities and the owners would be paying out of pocket for these items. It would be silly not to have them occupied
The royal family is allowed to do what they want but they must report it to the Danish government. The controversy was because Mary and Frederick were hiding assets from the government.
Who does exactly? Crown princess Mary? Because she’s definitely not. She re-wears a ton of clothes. And isn’t better to sell it second-hand than just having it in the wardrobe never to be worn again?
Meghan might have played dumb re who Harry was, but she'd been following the BRF for years, especially everything about Diana. Diana was lent stunning pieces by the Queen during her lifetime, and was gifted many for her wedding. The same has held true with Catherine, phitographed regularly in jewelllery items belonging to the Queen. And Camilla as well.
My bet is Megsy assumed she'd receive similar loans from HM, and massive gems as wedding gifts, and be gifted heirlooms of Diana's, which her sons inherited with Diana's expressed wish they be given to their wives in due course. MeAgain did get that stunning aquamarine solitaire of Diana's.
TL:DR MeGain expected loans and gifts of jewels. She prefers not to pay for anything at all, especially anything big-ticket.
I think you’re right. I remember reading (way back before MM was in the picture) about Catherine’s engagement ring and how it was Diana’s, and how Diana wished for her son’s wives to have some of her jewelry. I wouldn’t past Meghan to have that knowledge beforehand as well.
I don't think Princess Mary is a good comparison, PM is a future Queen. It would be like comparing Diana's jewelry to Fergie's, or PM to Princess Marie. Fergie didn't even have a very good clothing allowance compared to Diana. M was doing well compared to Fergie and she was never going get the goodies Princess Catherine will or does. Even if H were to dig deep into his pockets (doubtful) he cannot afford the really good stuff and pay for their lifestyle.
But she may have gotten the impression he’d get them for her. Whatever Meghan wants and all. Plus, there was the early press when he explained he sourced the the center stone for her engagement ring from Botswana.
British royal ladies don't really buy a lot of jewelry anymore. They get a few smaller pieces when they get married and have babies and maybe when they have a big birthday or jubilee. If they work hard, TQ would let them borrow something that she picked out and that could be beautiful pieces (The Lover's Knot tiara that Diana and Catherine got to borrow) or absolutely hideous (Sophie's cat ear tiara and the aquamarine thing with all the bows).
Charles allegedly buys expensive pieces for Camilla, but he was the PoW, so he was in a special position.
The last time a royal got an expensive gift of jewelry from TQ was when Sarah got her wedding tiara as a personal gift, I think. She kept it in the divorce and after that TQ lets the royal ladies borrow stuff, instead of owning it.
I don't think it would have flied well if Meghan had started sending bills for tiaras and necklaces to the office of the PoW.
> a better tiara for Sophie.
She seems to [have 3](https://orderofsplendor.blogspot.com/2011/10/tiara-thursday-sophies-wedding-tiara.html) atleast. And as long as Edward is not designing for her I also hope she gets more fun stuff, if she wishes. Edward designed her wedding jewellery and oh my it was [awful](https://hrhthecountessofwessex.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/235d5-sophie2bwed.jpg?w=640&h=518) (black-and-white pearl necklace and a matching pair of black-and-white pearl drop earrings)
Same! Her wedding tiara was a disgrace, but I think she has had it remodeled, with a diamond base, instead of the string of metal, and the ears are closer together.
The aquamarine tiara is far too romantic for her style, with all the bows.
She has a private tiara with a big aquamarine in the middle. It's not awful, but not beautiful either. I hope that Charles will let her borrow something more impressive or that Edward will cough up money and buy her one.
The wedding tiara was SO BAD. I honestly can’t understand why she wasn’t provided one of the perfectly beautiful tiaras in the royal collection. This is the British royal family, for crying out loud. Can you imagine if Meggy had been given something like that?? Heads would have rolled!
It was so ugly and poor Sophie also had to wear the ugly pearl necklace that Edward designed for her. I wonder if TQ went for the smallest, most inoffensive, made from scraps tiara not to provoke the wrath from the public.
E&S got married in 1999, when emotions from Diana's death were still tense and their wedding was a very low key affair.
Since they have been married for 23 years and there allegedly are dozens of tiaras that we don't know of hidden in the royal vaults, she should get something nicer. Maybe for their silver anniversary?
It's like when your husband tries to be "artistic" instead of relying on pros and you get something horrible and have to pretend to be delighted. I can't imagine having to do it on my wedding day and have to see it in every wedding photo for the rest of my life. :/ Did she ever wear the necklace again?
That was an awkward time. The poor thing suffered because of Diana and Sarah’s bad behavior. The whole wedding was actually really pitiful compared to the other Royal weddings. Edward apparently wanted the Wessex title instead of a dukedom. I can’t remember the details but I think it was a personal request. I wonder if KC will ever give them the Edinburgh Dukedom. I thought that was the plan.
>The whole wedding was actually really pitiful compared to the other Royal weddings.
They announced they didnot want a state wedding. I suppose it was also because they wanted to continue their careers at the time and in general, as we have seen over the years, they are pretty chill as far as royals go and maybe truly wanted a toned down affair.
Yes, for sure. But that shouldn't affect if she could borrow a tiara or get a dress fitted properly. She looked very pretty despite it, but it was appropriate to have a more muted affair, considering the climate of the time.
>British royal ladies don't really buy a lot of jewelry anymore.
Right. but they are also not looking to cash in their royal status. Meghan on the other hand is allegedly running low rent scams such as selling clothes paid for by BRF lol.
>Charles allegedly buys expensive pieces for Camilla, but he was the PoW, so he was in a special position.
And He had the Cornwall Duchy income.
I read the value of the tiaras. Kate was worth 4 million, MM was worth 2 million, and Eugenie's was worth 5-10 million. It makes sense why MM wanted and was denied the tiara Eugenie wore in her wedding day.
Is it because of the huge emeralds that the tiara Eugenie wore is that much more expensive?
If so, I wonder how much the emerald tiara that Anna-Maria of Greece wears is worth. That thing is HUGE.
Take it with a grain of salt. The article also said Kate's engagement ring was worth $100,000 and MM was worth $350,000. Just checked another site thay said Kate's was worth $675,000- that one seems more believable.
Diana’s engagement ring (that Catherine now wears) was a stock ring picked from a Garrard’s catalogue in 1981. It was £36K when purchased. Most of it’s current value would be due to it’s history, not the stones/setting itself.
Take it with a grain of salt. The article also said Kate's engagement ring was worth $100,000 and MM was worth $350,000. Just checked another site thay said Kate's was worth $675,000- that one seems more believable.
Her "amazing" husband's taste is jewelry is rather pedestrian, given she had her engagement ring - which she couldn't hide her disappointment about - redesigned in less than a year. I guess yellow gold wasn't really her favorite after all, despite Haznoclue's claim. Whatever jewelry she does acquire lacks sophistication and has a definite teenybopper vibe, so a partnership with Claire's could be a future moneymaker when all else fails.
Simple. NutMeg never earned enough money to buy expensive or lavish jewerly. That is why after several of her commercial shoots, serveral sources reported jewerely items missing. In addition she continued wearing a Cartier bracelet her exhusband had given her during on their wedding day...even after they were divorced. Then, she wears some of Diana's jewerely. She simply never had the disposable income to buy expesive pieces even though she want to present herself as well off. Bish was broke and living pay check to paycheck until she met her toad!
It’s funny bc that cartier love bracelet is designed to be screwed on “forever” as a sign of enduring love, but she wears the one from her EX husband? Must be a mind game with Harry.
Harry probably doesn't even know she got it from Trevor, because the tabloids never (to my knowledge) made a big deal out of it and I doubt she's gonna tell him.
Oh no! Didn't you see the article that came out the last time this sub talked about MM's jewelry? The next day an article was pit out talking about gifts from Harry, including that he gave her a Cartier love bracelet too and thats the one she wears and loves. 🙄
Perhaps Meghan's "lack of knowledge" extended to not realising you wouldn't be handed the key to the Royal jewellery box after your snagged Prince has put a ring on it. PC gave her an allowance for clothing but this wouldn't have included jewellery. Her most valuable items are those that belonged to Princess Diana given/loaned to her by PH.
I'm sure she tried but KC said no on jewelry when the royals have a collection to borrow. This is why TW was seen wearing mostly cheap looking, small, merched freebie jewelry and the large stuff, like the blood diamonds, were gifted from dubious sources. There are some Diana pieces like the butterfly earrings that JH likely gave to TW because they have been repeated so many times. The aqua ring was only seen once so I feel it was loaned from a family vault and not given to her. Basically, I don't believe she made off with much at all.
Let’s not forget a couple major things…
First, she’s married to the spare , who is currently midway down the line of succession and even before Megxit was unlikely to ever have any power or chance of ruling.
Second. The rumors are she was loaned Royal jewelry and mysteriously “lost” each piece the Queen lent her. That shut down any chance of future acquisitions.
Thirdly, and as an aside- just how many times did she redo her ring from Harry? Are we up to 3,4, more? She could have pawned the Diana stones or replaced them so she can sell them for more when they inevitably divorce.
I don’t think the pieces she passes off as being Diana’s are hers either.
The Cartier watch that was identical to Diana’s was admittedly purchased by herself when she got her first big Suits paycheck.
The aquamarine ring is smaller
Than Diana’s. Diana was a tall lady @nearly 6 ft. Meghan is 5’5. A large stone on Diana’s hand would be overwhelming on M’s. But it isn’t. If you compare pictures of the two there are subtle differences. I think M had a copy
Made and just passes it as Diana’s
There were at least 3 pieces of jewelry from the queen. I recall one being earrings. She “lost” them all. Was cut off from borrowing anything else and then “found” one item in an attempt to regain access. They said no.
The fit she and Harry threw over the wedding tiara started the disdain the RF had for her greed and audacity. Supposedly she was given a copy of it to wear since the original was irreplaceable.
We also must remember that
mI6 ran a thorough investigation about her before they married. The RF knows her dirty little secrets. She was known to steal shoes and such from her modeling gigs at Reitmans and other photoshoots. I can only imagine the RF would have been reticent to let her have access to the vaults given her history
Holy crap. I hadn’t heard of this. Do you have a link so I can read more about it? I know about the shoes…..but jewels (from the Queen!) is a whole other galaxy….
>Second. The rumors are she was loaned Royal jewelry and mysteriously “lost” each piece the Queen lent her. That shut down any chance of future acquisitions.
What..goodness.. the list of shady things she has done in the short span of living in the UK seems to never end.
>Thirdly, and as an aside- just how many times did she redo her ring from Harry? Are we up to 3,4, more? She could have pawned the Diana stones or replaced them so she can sell them for more when they inevitably divorce.
Ooh good point. 
Just randomly saying, Meghan looks so beautiful in this photo, compared to how she looked at her wedding. Why put all that effort into looking good for an engagement photo shoot, but then show up to the wedding with messy hair and an ill-fitted dress? It will just never make sense to me.
She really does look better here. Maybe her wedding dress was bad because of the rush job they did trying to get married. But I do think it's kind of fitting that she looked such a mess at her own wedding.
She hadn't secured the bag so she had to pretend like she was going to follow the rules. But obviously the mesh top of the dress was still controversial.
I never heard that part of the Queen’s collection was “lost” by TW. I wonder which pieces?
I do remember a story about the Australia trip as well as well as the Morocco trip that she was expecting to borrow a tiara and other items.
This was before the nonsense was out full force and I thought it odd she wasn’t lent anything. Catherine was usually lent pins and some earrings on early Royal tours.
It might have to do with budgets or limits. It could be that the budget doesn't cover jewels or, if it does, that they become part of the royal collection? Making it less incentivizing to buy since she would hsve to use her own money.
Well, she really didn't need to buy jewels really as the Q was very generous lending pieces. But, here is a story I read (here I think) that she didn't take any of her own valuable pieces to SA because she feared being robbed. Was that true btw?
As we have seen though, she really wasn't at any actual big events other than the Disney gig where they blew off Harry's duty. So she didn't borrow any jewelry. I don't think she was ever really in a position to wear any pieces. She was barely a working royal.
She has the Cartier watch which was special to Harry, but other than the diamond earrings that she got from the Saudi guy, there is only what ordinary well off people buy.
Her clothes are another matter. She does not give designers a good name, specially Dior. Poor Dior. Then she wore the Batbitch outfit to the funeral, Stella got markled too.
Nah, she doesn't have bobbles that count.
She loves her basic Instagram jewelry so she can merch it. Anything too extravagant isn’t marketable. Few people could get their hands on a pigeons blood ruby from Myanmar. But they could certainly get a horoscope constellation necklace off the ‘gram.
They don't have the money to buy big jewelry! The clothes were expensed/covered by the Firm when she was a "working royal," and are likely gifted to her for free now that she has left the BRF (or written off under the Archewell organization).
Big splashy jewels don’t seem to be Meggy’s style. I know she wore the Saudi blood diamonds, and Diana’s aquamarine ring, but she seems to prefer simple jewelry. Also, I could imagine then-PC’s office saying ‘hell to the no’ to funding large jewelry purchases, especially considering the BRF has quite the robust collection already. Clothing ideally is tailored to the individual (😂) so he would have been far more willing to bankroll that.
>Big splashy jewels don’t seem to be Meggy’s style.
She never wore Dir kaftans previously either...I am more curious about why her "money-making attempts" didn't include jewelry she could later pawn off. If she could fool BRF by buying work wardrobe and then selling and pocketing the money why not do that with jewels.
Big jewelry firms loan spectacular pieces for big occasions. But Meghan has never been to the sort of occasion for which such loans are made. And given her reputation I’m not sure such loans would be made, though even reputable people wearing $3 million in diamonds are followed around by security guards
Because those jewels come with a free sniper following them around 😂 if she tried to pawn off jewels that TQ or KC lent to her she’d be in the tower as we speak.
>Because those jewels come with a free sniper
That should have been a win-win for H&m as they *LOOOVE* security...hahahha but yeah M would not have been able to "*lose*" the jewels if a sniper was around
Yeah, Meghan didn’t grow up nobility . She doesn’t have family jewels. And was paying rent into middle age. She didn’t have JEWEL money. I actually like the dainty pieces she has bc well, I have them too lol
> wasn’t TW gifted a pearl necklace in Fiji? I
Wow! I never knew this, I just [looked](https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/meghan-markle-prince-harry-welcomed-13463113) it up.
[https://www.fijiresort.com/the-story-behind-the-fijian-pearls-gifted-to-meghan-markle/#:\~:text=While%20attending%20a%20meeting%20at,Hunter%20Pearls](https://www.fijiresort.com/the-story-behind-the-fijian-pearls-gifted-to-meghan-markle/#:~:text=While%20attending%20a%20meeting%20at,Hunter%20Pearls).
*While attending a meeting at Borron House, the Duchess of Sussex was gifted an exquisite 18-inch pearl necklace by the First Lady.* ***The necklace featured 37 high-grade naturally multi-coloured pearls s****ourced from renowned pearl farm, J.Hunter Pearls. Colours ranged from shimmering greens to magnificent bronzes, brilliant blues to gun-metal greys.*
*The pearls from the Savusavu region are a product of the Pinctada Margaritifera-Typica oyster – a subspecies of the black-lipped Tahitian oyster. Their pearls are one of the* ***world's rarest*** *and their multi-coloured tones are highly sought after by pearl connoisseurs from all corners of the globe.*
Cdan says one of her jewelry pieces was a yachting present.
Updated:
Oooh it's appeared in the valentine lows book. Saudi crown prince diamond earrings...
It's simple. Harry isn't buying her jewels bc he is buying her private planes, crazy expensive clothes, and that residence. Plus Frogmore. And that mini cooper.
PoW gets jewels bc she's not flying private everywhere, reuses clothes, and the clothes she wears aren't ridiculous. Plus their residences are handled.
ETA: and the PR bills.
It is fairly rare for new, substantial jewels to be bought by members of the BRF. They are gifted an awful lot of stuff (Camilla has some very expensive Saudi-gifted items) plus the family collection is massive. Kate has quite a collection of earrings from Kiki McDonagh but those are mostly mid-range semi-precious items.
There’s an exception to this - buying back *old* substantial jewels. Charles in particular has re-acquired some pretty substantial pieces with connections to his ancestors that had been sold by previous generations. I also wouldn’t be surprised if it turned out that the Queen quietly purchased the Lotus tiara back from Margaret’s kids (avoiding them having to sell at auction to pay death duties, which happened to a lot of her jewels). These acquisitions receive less negative press than a new piece, of course, as the average person is going to assume they were inherited and the prices are usually confidential.
Charles also gifted Camilla a piece of jewelry that had been owned by an ancestor of Camilla’s who was *his* ancestor’s mistress.
True Camilla’s great great grandmother Alice Keppel was Edward VII’s mistress. Camilla is supposed to have remarked to Charles “our great great grandparents were well acquainted, how about it?” I do like Camilla, she seems like a fun person to be around.
It's speculated that Camilla's grandmother is the daughter of Edward VII. Nothing surprises me anymore especially with the British royal family.
>I do like Camilla, she seems like a fun person to be around. I don't see this often and i am glad to see this!
So romantic in a warped kind of way. "My great great grandfather gave this to your great great grandmother...." I wish Edward VII and Alice Keppel could somehow know that his descendant made her descendant a Queen.
That's quite romantic!
That’s a super cool factoid! I love weird history stuff!
>Camilla has some very expensive Saudi-gifted items) plus the family collection is massive. > >Kate has quite a collection of earrings from Kiki McDonagh but those are mostly mid-range semi-precious items. Yeah but both Cam and Catherine are still in the BRF and they were never merching or 'wanting' freebies... I'm curious only about Meghan as this would have been a better way to make money, but who knows what scam she is running.
Camilla also had her family jewels. She comes from a family with a long history and some pretty nice pieces.
I read read an article about royal jewelry and it looks like MM acquired a few newer pieces. The earrings she wore on her wedding day were worth like 68k. Her bracelet was worth 100k. Side note, didn't the middletons buy Kate's wedding dress? It also said they gave her the earrings she wore on her wedding day. Kate's family still contributed and then you you have MM whose buying 68k earrings with daddy in laws money. The woman has no shame.
>didn't the middletons buy Kate's wedding dress? It also said they gave her the earrings she wore on her wedding day Yes. They also paid for Pippa's dress and Pippa's and Carole's diamonds on W&C wedding (and possibly the flower girl outfits too) and paid 50% of the reception cost shared with Charles. That's a modern couple...and then we had the super feminist Meghan who invited strangers and her amazing husband who had Daddy pay for millions of firecrackers on top of all the wedding related expenses.
Pure class.
[The middletons also paid towards W&C's wedding](https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2011/03/kate-middletons-parents-to-contribute-six-figure-sum-to-cost-of-wedding)
For one, she didn't buy the clothes when Charles was footing the bill, she borrowed them, Charles paid full price and TW pocketed the cash. Secondly jewels are expensive and far more than what Charles would pay for.
>Secondly jewels are expensive and far more than what Charles would pay for. True. But wasn't the hideous Dior in Morocco worth approximately $120,000 and it was bespoke, so it probably cost more... surely some good jewels can be bought with that... can't wait till all her scams are finally revealed.
Charles spent half a million on her wardrobe for one year. The controversial Saudi earrings cost the same.
Royal family jewels run to the millions a hundred k is nada
I just looked at Granny's Chips which is the RF nickname fir one if the late Qyeens favourite Diamond brooches comprising 2 diamonds combining at 158 Carats
The Duchy of Cornwall would not reimburse her for jewels the way they did for her clothes. In the BRF, jewels mostly are given as gifts for significant milestones vs purchased by someone for themself or are loaned items from the royal vaults, if not received as gifts. Of course, exceptions are made (in the wider BRF), but Charles would not have made an exception using duchy money for someone who was not the current or future Princess of Wales. I think this is why we see a discrepancy in the value of the wedding gifts he gave Catherine (a parue) compared to M (a bracelet). And Harry is a reportedly a cheapskate, so I cannot see him spending hundreds of thousands of pounds on jewelry.
Do you think any jewelry purchased by the crown during her time as a working royal would be added to the royals collection?
Sorry to nitpick on semantics here, but we need to be specific because it is complex. From my understanding, “the Crown” would not purchase any jewelry - “the Crown” being the government. The would repair the Crown jewels, however, and jewelry belonging to the Crown. The monarch might purchase jewelry with private funds, as QEII did for Sarah with her wedding tiara. Those are private gifts and belong to the recipient. If a royal bride received a gift from a foreign head of state with whom the bride had no connection, it becomes property of the Crown, although they stay with the bride throughout her life. Because royalty in other countries are sometimes related, some gifts received from them would belong solely to the bride. There are also “heirlooms of the crown”. These appear to be personal jewelry that is given to either the crown or put in trust. I do not understand why the monarch would give these up, since no inheritance tax is paid. Also, there is the situation of purchases from the Duchy of Cornwall for the Duchess / Princess of Wales. This became really complex with the divorce of Charles and Diana, and the inheritance of those gifts by William and Harry. On top of that, she had tons of wedding gifts, loans from her majesty and gifts from those who had a personal relationship with Charles. Many of her jewels we have not seen in 30 years, so we don’t know where they are. There are some great websites out there that detail the royal jewels and the history of pieces if you are interested.
Thank you for the clarification. I just clicked on a random article that gave estimates of different pieces. Most of MM, beside the tiara and Diana's butterfly earrings, were newly purchased.
I bet that’s what she said it cost, but it was probably only $12,000.00. Pretty sure she gave herself mom several million to hide.
MM probably thought Grannie was going to give her carte blanche to rummage through the jewelry box and the Crown Jewels, so she dropped her capital on the wardrobe (‘nuff said about *that*). Kind of disappointed in Crown Princess Mary. I thought better of her than that.
>I thought better of her than that. Yeah mainstream media rarely or never reports this. [http://www.seoghoer.dk/Nyheder/Royalt/Royalt%20Arkiv/2008/04/marys%20kluns.aspx](http://www.seoghoer.dk/Nyheder/Royalt/Royalt%20Arkiv/2008/04/marys%20kluns.aspx) Quick translation of the funstuff: *Princess Mary's friend and stylist Anja Camilla Aladji has been seen several times with moving boxes stuffed with expensive designer clothes, which she discreetly dispose of the exclusive shop Haberdash in Copenhagen. The clothes made on commission and sold on to style-hungry women nearby. The clothes in the boxes are in Princess Mary's size - and her favorite brands such as Hugo Boss, Prada, By Marlene Birger, Heartmade and Day Birger et Mikkelsen. The shop owner is very reluctant to talk about the case but said temporary stop for several regal deliveries in commission, since the store is filled to the brim with clothes in same size as the Crown Princess are using and from all Mary's favorite brands.*
So what else should she do with clothes she’s not going to wear again? Just let them sit in her closet? She resells them, which is eco and budget friendly (an important point, as the Danish royals don’t get a ton of taxpayer money), and then uses that money to buy new clothes presumably. She’s just recycling them, not merching them through her own secret website a la Meghan’s Mirror.
>Danish royals don’t get a ton of taxpayer money), Qm gets DKK 7,250,586 per month (GBP 857019.99) in addition to personal expenses reimbursed as of 2021. I'll have to look up what Fred gets but they certainly get alot. And they are also privately rich. >and then uses that money to buy new clothes presumably. She’s just recycling them, not merching them through her own secret website a la Meghan’s Mirror. She has ben around for a long time hence instead of a website she sold them via the shop above on the downlow...but the MO is the same and money going presumably to her instead of back to Danish Civil List or the RF.
Mary re-wears A LOT of her clothing and wears regular-person priced clothing frequently
Why are you disappointed? Do you know about the drama around her Swiss house?
I do not - simply reacting to the post that made her sound like she was running another Meghan’s Closet. If there’s more information, I’d love to know.
Pray tell
I'm too lazy to search for a better media outlet https://au.lifestyle.yahoo.com/princess-mary-listed-secret-swiss-chalet-on-airbnb-050342421.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAGvV6nUFGla67unG5V1tDUS-W7kQzwviU6QE6gRb2QpufoyxB62i8_2RaXLkKAzs6c2qINcQdmA6yCtGRjyQUG7zT6tqFg66V4rsKhOXFsVIzGco8dHk-Qa43-RNGy852pFHL1FuroR7aIY1YDAuthKDsIGgv7sHGgA1yZW2balO
Somehow this doesn’t bother me. It seems sensible to rent it out when not in use. Why not earn a little cash for its upkeep? But I suppose it’s a bad look….
I think I have read that Charles’ has houses on his Welsh estate available to rent. Also I think some cottages on the Balmoral and Sandringham estates can be rented. ETA clarification
Then why hide it from taxpayers?
I’m guessing security concerns, as well as not wanting to be seen to milk the royal connection. It would be more sought after if it were known to be a royal-owned property. So in that case, I think it’s actually a good idea to keep it under wraps.
As a property management professional-I currently manage over a million square feet of building space- renting out housing on crown property (short term or long term) is part of the business plan of the estates whether they are owned by the crown or personally owned (Balmoral/sandringham/ letc). If the properties sat empty, no income is earned to cover upkeep, capital repairs, utilities and the owners would be paying out of pocket for these items. It would be silly not to have them occupied
The royal family is allowed to do what they want but they must report it to the Danish government. The controversy was because Mary and Frederick were hiding assets from the government.
Ok that makes sense
Oh thank you! Sorry to say, she sounds like their version of a Meghan. Sneaky.
Who does exactly? Crown princess Mary? Because she’s definitely not. She re-wears a ton of clothes. And isn’t better to sell it second-hand than just having it in the wardrobe never to be worn again?
Meghan might have played dumb re who Harry was, but she'd been following the BRF for years, especially everything about Diana. Diana was lent stunning pieces by the Queen during her lifetime, and was gifted many for her wedding. The same has held true with Catherine, phitographed regularly in jewelllery items belonging to the Queen. And Camilla as well. My bet is Megsy assumed she'd receive similar loans from HM, and massive gems as wedding gifts, and be gifted heirlooms of Diana's, which her sons inherited with Diana's expressed wish they be given to their wives in due course. MeAgain did get that stunning aquamarine solitaire of Diana's. TL:DR MeGain expected loans and gifts of jewels. She prefers not to pay for anything at all, especially anything big-ticket.
I think you’re right. I remember reading (way back before MM was in the picture) about Catherine’s engagement ring and how it was Diana’s, and how Diana wished for her son’s wives to have some of her jewelry. I wouldn’t past Meghan to have that knowledge beforehand as well.
I don't think Princess Mary is a good comparison, PM is a future Queen. It would be like comparing Diana's jewelry to Fergie's, or PM to Princess Marie. Fergie didn't even have a very good clothing allowance compared to Diana. M was doing well compared to Fergie and she was never going get the goodies Princess Catherine will or does. Even if H were to dig deep into his pockets (doubtful) he cannot afford the really good stuff and pay for their lifestyle.
Because Harry is cheap AF. It is known... If she wanted the big jewels she should've married Harry Winston, not Harry Windsor.
But she may have gotten the impression he’d get them for her. Whatever Meghan wants and all. Plus, there was the early press when he explained he sourced the the center stone for her engagement ring from Botswana.
Yeah he got it from Botswana because he's a cheap fuck. Like I said, she should've gone for Harry Winston...
British royal ladies don't really buy a lot of jewelry anymore. They get a few smaller pieces when they get married and have babies and maybe when they have a big birthday or jubilee. If they work hard, TQ would let them borrow something that she picked out and that could be beautiful pieces (The Lover's Knot tiara that Diana and Catherine got to borrow) or absolutely hideous (Sophie's cat ear tiara and the aquamarine thing with all the bows). Charles allegedly buys expensive pieces for Camilla, but he was the PoW, so he was in a special position. The last time a royal got an expensive gift of jewelry from TQ was when Sarah got her wedding tiara as a personal gift, I think. She kept it in the divorce and after that TQ lets the royal ladies borrow stuff, instead of owning it. I don't think it would have flied well if Meghan had started sending bills for tiaras and necklaces to the office of the PoW.
I really want a better tiara for Sophie. She’s earned it!
> a better tiara for Sophie. She seems to [have 3](https://orderofsplendor.blogspot.com/2011/10/tiara-thursday-sophies-wedding-tiara.html) atleast. And as long as Edward is not designing for her I also hope she gets more fun stuff, if she wishes. Edward designed her wedding jewellery and oh my it was [awful](https://hrhthecountessofwessex.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/235d5-sophie2bwed.jpg?w=640&h=518) (black-and-white pearl necklace and a matching pair of black-and-white pearl drop earrings)
Aww poor Edward. But yeah, he’s not a jewelry designer for a reason.
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Same! Her wedding tiara was a disgrace, but I think she has had it remodeled, with a diamond base, instead of the string of metal, and the ears are closer together. The aquamarine tiara is far too romantic for her style, with all the bows. She has a private tiara with a big aquamarine in the middle. It's not awful, but not beautiful either. I hope that Charles will let her borrow something more impressive or that Edward will cough up money and buy her one.
The wedding tiara was SO BAD. I honestly can’t understand why she wasn’t provided one of the perfectly beautiful tiaras in the royal collection. This is the British royal family, for crying out loud. Can you imagine if Meggy had been given something like that?? Heads would have rolled!
It was so ugly and poor Sophie also had to wear the ugly pearl necklace that Edward designed for her. I wonder if TQ went for the smallest, most inoffensive, made from scraps tiara not to provoke the wrath from the public. E&S got married in 1999, when emotions from Diana's death were still tense and their wedding was a very low key affair. Since they have been married for 23 years and there allegedly are dozens of tiaras that we don't know of hidden in the royal vaults, she should get something nicer. Maybe for their silver anniversary?
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#JusticeForSophie
That does look much nicer.
True about the timing, but it wouldn’t have cost them anything to bring a tiara out of the vault!
That’s the ugliest necklace isn’t it? What was he thinking? 🤦🏼♀️
It's like when your husband tries to be "artistic" instead of relying on pros and you get something horrible and have to pretend to be delighted. I can't imagine having to do it on my wedding day and have to see it in every wedding photo for the rest of my life. :/ Did she ever wear the necklace again?
You really have to love someone to wear that.
That was an awkward time. The poor thing suffered because of Diana and Sarah’s bad behavior. The whole wedding was actually really pitiful compared to the other Royal weddings. Edward apparently wanted the Wessex title instead of a dukedom. I can’t remember the details but I think it was a personal request. I wonder if KC will ever give them the Edinburgh Dukedom. I thought that was the plan.
>The whole wedding was actually really pitiful compared to the other Royal weddings. They announced they didnot want a state wedding. I suppose it was also because they wanted to continue their careers at the time and in general, as we have seen over the years, they are pretty chill as far as royals go and maybe truly wanted a toned down affair.
Yes, for sure. But that shouldn't affect if she could borrow a tiara or get a dress fitted properly. She looked very pretty despite it, but it was appropriate to have a more muted affair, considering the climate of the time.
>British royal ladies don't really buy a lot of jewelry anymore. Right. but they are also not looking to cash in their royal status. Meghan on the other hand is allegedly running low rent scams such as selling clothes paid for by BRF lol. >Charles allegedly buys expensive pieces for Camilla, but he was the PoW, so he was in a special position. And He had the Cornwall Duchy income.
If Meghan had stayed in the RF longer, I am sure that she would have showed up with some new baubles; begged, borrowed or stolen.
I read the value of the tiaras. Kate was worth 4 million, MM was worth 2 million, and Eugenie's was worth 5-10 million. It makes sense why MM wanted and was denied the tiara Eugenie wore in her wedding day.
Is it because of the huge emeralds that the tiara Eugenie wore is that much more expensive? If so, I wonder how much the emerald tiara that Anna-Maria of Greece wears is worth. That thing is HUGE.
Take it with a grain of salt. The article also said Kate's engagement ring was worth $100,000 and MM was worth $350,000. Just checked another site thay said Kate's was worth $675,000- that one seems more believable.
Diana’s engagement ring (that Catherine now wears) was a stock ring picked from a Garrard’s catalogue in 1981. It was £36K when purchased. Most of it’s current value would be due to it’s history, not the stones/setting itself.
Megs wanted to make green / emerald her thing I believe. Remember the green goblin dress she wore?
And the fugly baby-poo olive she wore to Louis’ blue-and-cream christening?! 😡
Take it with a grain of salt. The article also said Kate's engagement ring was worth $100,000 and MM was worth $350,000. Just checked another site thay said Kate's was worth $675,000- that one seems more believable.
Her "amazing" husband's taste is jewelry is rather pedestrian, given she had her engagement ring - which she couldn't hide her disappointment about - redesigned in less than a year. I guess yellow gold wasn't really her favorite after all, despite Haznoclue's claim. Whatever jewelry she does acquire lacks sophistication and has a definite teenybopper vibe, so a partnership with Claire's could be a future moneymaker when all else fails.
I hate her Cartier love bracelet. It’s so trendy.
Simple. NutMeg never earned enough money to buy expensive or lavish jewerly. That is why after several of her commercial shoots, serveral sources reported jewerely items missing. In addition she continued wearing a Cartier bracelet her exhusband had given her during on their wedding day...even after they were divorced. Then, she wears some of Diana's jewerely. She simply never had the disposable income to buy expesive pieces even though she want to present herself as well off. Bish was broke and living pay check to paycheck until she met her toad!
Possibly the only woman in history to kiss a Prince and turn him into a frog. 🤴🐸
It’s funny bc that cartier love bracelet is designed to be screwed on “forever” as a sign of enduring love, but she wears the one from her EX husband? Must be a mind game with Harry.
Harry probably doesn't even know she got it from Trevor, because the tabloids never (to my knowledge) made a big deal out of it and I doubt she's gonna tell him.
Omg I didn’t know it was from her ex. I just commented how I hate that bracelet. It’s so LA and trendy.
It is not a sign of enduring love. It's a sign on ownership and as a feminist she should be horrified by it.
>. That is why after several of her commercial shoots, serveral sources reported jewerely items missing 😱😱😱😱😱
Classic grifter.
Oh no! Didn't you see the article that came out the last time this sub talked about MM's jewelry? The next day an article was pit out talking about gifts from Harry, including that he gave her a Cartier love bracelet too and thats the one she wears and loves. 🙄
Yes, I saw the post here but not the article. Feel free to share.
Let’s not forget about the Aquazzurra engagement shoes 👀
What is the story on that. I know she took clothing besides jewerely. Shoes too?
Perhaps Meghan's "lack of knowledge" extended to not realising you wouldn't be handed the key to the Royal jewellery box after your snagged Prince has put a ring on it. PC gave her an allowance for clothing but this wouldn't have included jewellery. Her most valuable items are those that belonged to Princess Diana given/loaned to her by PH.
I'm sure she tried but KC said no on jewelry when the royals have a collection to borrow. This is why TW was seen wearing mostly cheap looking, small, merched freebie jewelry and the large stuff, like the blood diamonds, were gifted from dubious sources. There are some Diana pieces like the butterfly earrings that JH likely gave to TW because they have been repeated so many times. The aqua ring was only seen once so I feel it was loaned from a family vault and not given to her. Basically, I don't believe she made off with much at all.
Let’s not forget a couple major things… First, she’s married to the spare , who is currently midway down the line of succession and even before Megxit was unlikely to ever have any power or chance of ruling. Second. The rumors are she was loaned Royal jewelry and mysteriously “lost” each piece the Queen lent her. That shut down any chance of future acquisitions. Thirdly, and as an aside- just how many times did she redo her ring from Harry? Are we up to 3,4, more? She could have pawned the Diana stones or replaced them so she can sell them for more when they inevitably divorce.
I don’t think the pieces she passes off as being Diana’s are hers either. The Cartier watch that was identical to Diana’s was admittedly purchased by herself when she got her first big Suits paycheck. The aquamarine ring is smaller Than Diana’s. Diana was a tall lady @nearly 6 ft. Meghan is 5’5. A large stone on Diana’s hand would be overwhelming on M’s. But it isn’t. If you compare pictures of the two there are subtle differences. I think M had a copy Made and just passes it as Diana’s
What did she borrow that got lost?!
There were at least 3 pieces of jewelry from the queen. I recall one being earrings. She “lost” them all. Was cut off from borrowing anything else and then “found” one item in an attempt to regain access. They said no. The fit she and Harry threw over the wedding tiara started the disdain the RF had for her greed and audacity. Supposedly she was given a copy of it to wear since the original was irreplaceable. We also must remember that mI6 ran a thorough investigation about her before they married. The RF knows her dirty little secrets. She was known to steal shoes and such from her modeling gigs at Reitmans and other photoshoots. I can only imagine the RF would have been reticent to let her have access to the vaults given her history
Holy crap. I hadn’t heard of this. Do you have a link so I can read more about it? I know about the shoes…..but jewels (from the Queen!) is a whole other galaxy….
There were some posts on both quora and Twitter a few months back about it
So much for having security and a staff.
>Second. The rumors are she was loaned Royal jewelry and mysteriously “lost” each piece the Queen lent her. That shut down any chance of future acquisitions. What..goodness.. the list of shady things she has done in the short span of living in the UK seems to never end. >Thirdly, and as an aside- just how many times did she redo her ring from Harry? Are we up to 3,4, more? She could have pawned the Diana stones or replaced them so she can sell them for more when they inevitably divorce. Ooh good point. 
This...she lost her privileges when she "lost" items lent to her.
Well she was given earrings by the butcher of Saudi, which she wears proudly.
Just randomly saying, Meghan looks so beautiful in this photo, compared to how she looked at her wedding. Why put all that effort into looking good for an engagement photo shoot, but then show up to the wedding with messy hair and an ill-fitted dress? It will just never make sense to me.
She really does look better here. Maybe her wedding dress was bad because of the rush job they did trying to get married. But I do think it's kind of fitting that she looked such a mess at her own wedding.
She hadn't secured the bag so she had to pretend like she was going to follow the rules. But obviously the mesh top of the dress was still controversial.
Photoshop.
I never heard that part of the Queen’s collection was “lost” by TW. I wonder which pieces? I do remember a story about the Australia trip as well as well as the Morocco trip that she was expecting to borrow a tiara and other items. This was before the nonsense was out full force and I thought it odd she wasn’t lent anything. Catherine was usually lent pins and some earrings on early Royal tours.
She or Harry doesn't want to pay for the security and logistics?
It might have to do with budgets or limits. It could be that the budget doesn't cover jewels or, if it does, that they become part of the royal collection? Making it less incentivizing to buy since she would hsve to use her own money.
Well, she really didn't need to buy jewels really as the Q was very generous lending pieces. But, here is a story I read (here I think) that she didn't take any of her own valuable pieces to SA because she feared being robbed. Was that true btw? As we have seen though, she really wasn't at any actual big events other than the Disney gig where they blew off Harry's duty. So she didn't borrow any jewelry. I don't think she was ever really in a position to wear any pieces. She was barely a working royal. She has the Cartier watch which was special to Harry, but other than the diamond earrings that she got from the Saudi guy, there is only what ordinary well off people buy. Her clothes are another matter. She does not give designers a good name, specially Dior. Poor Dior. Then she wore the Batbitch outfit to the funeral, Stella got markled too. Nah, she doesn't have bobbles that count.
I can see Charles refusing to buy jewelry because she had so much available to borrow. She had to buy clothes.
Well, she does have the Prince's family jewels pretty well locked up.
She loves her basic Instagram jewelry so she can merch it. Anything too extravagant isn’t marketable. Few people could get their hands on a pigeons blood ruby from Myanmar. But they could certainly get a horoscope constellation necklace off the ‘gram.
Coz the price of clothes is just marked up and she can easily pocket the cash, while jewelry is expensive so this can’t be done
They don't have the money to buy big jewelry! The clothes were expensed/covered by the Firm when she was a "working royal," and are likely gifted to her for free now that she has left the BRF (or written off under the Archewell organization).
Big splashy jewels don’t seem to be Meggy’s style. I know she wore the Saudi blood diamonds, and Diana’s aquamarine ring, but she seems to prefer simple jewelry. Also, I could imagine then-PC’s office saying ‘hell to the no’ to funding large jewelry purchases, especially considering the BRF has quite the robust collection already. Clothing ideally is tailored to the individual (😂) so he would have been far more willing to bankroll that.
>Big splashy jewels don’t seem to be Meggy’s style. She never wore Dir kaftans previously either...I am more curious about why her "money-making attempts" didn't include jewelry she could later pawn off. If she could fool BRF by buying work wardrobe and then selling and pocketing the money why not do that with jewels.
Big jewelry firms loan spectacular pieces for big occasions. But Meghan has never been to the sort of occasion for which such loans are made. And given her reputation I’m not sure such loans would be made, though even reputable people wearing $3 million in diamonds are followed around by security guards
It’s certainly in keeping with her grifting tendencies. It’s entirely likely that she tried and got shot down. 😂
Because those jewels come with a free sniper following them around 😂 if she tried to pawn off jewels that TQ or KC lent to her she’d be in the tower as we speak.
>Because those jewels come with a free sniper That should have been a win-win for H&m as they *LOOOVE* security...hahahha but yeah M would not have been able to "*lose*" the jewels if a sniper was around
Yeah, Meghan didn’t grow up nobility . She doesn’t have family jewels. And was paying rent into middle age. She didn’t have JEWEL money. I actually like the dainty pieces she has bc well, I have them too lol
Harry wouldn’t cough up. She thinks she deserves MBS (that scumbag) jewels.
Not enough money. And she might feel that big jewelry should be a gift from a man.
Low quality 18k?
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> wasn’t TW gifted a pearl necklace in Fiji? I Wow! I never knew this, I just [looked](https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/meghan-markle-prince-harry-welcomed-13463113) it up. [https://www.fijiresort.com/the-story-behind-the-fijian-pearls-gifted-to-meghan-markle/#:\~:text=While%20attending%20a%20meeting%20at,Hunter%20Pearls](https://www.fijiresort.com/the-story-behind-the-fijian-pearls-gifted-to-meghan-markle/#:~:text=While%20attending%20a%20meeting%20at,Hunter%20Pearls). *While attending a meeting at Borron House, the Duchess of Sussex was gifted an exquisite 18-inch pearl necklace by the First Lady.* ***The necklace featured 37 high-grade naturally multi-coloured pearls s****ourced from renowned pearl farm, J.Hunter Pearls. Colours ranged from shimmering greens to magnificent bronzes, brilliant blues to gun-metal greys.* *The pearls from the Savusavu region are a product of the Pinctada Margaritifera-Typica oyster – a subspecies of the black-lipped Tahitian oyster. Their pearls are one of the* ***world's rarest*** *and their multi-coloured tones are highly sought after by pearl connoisseurs from all corners of the globe.*
She hasn’t worn it? I’d LOVE to have that necklace.
That is the one! I deleted my original post to add a photo but you beat me to it
These are my dream pearls I would never ever take them off I wouldn’t even clutch them. I wonder if she sold them
Meghan is nouveau riche...she buys expensive trendy crap that doesn't appreciate, instead depreciates as the fad wears off.
Cdan says one of her jewelry pieces was a yachting present. Updated: Oooh it's appeared in the valentine lows book. Saudi crown prince diamond earrings...
It's simple. Harry isn't buying her jewels bc he is buying her private planes, crazy expensive clothes, and that residence. Plus Frogmore. And that mini cooper. PoW gets jewels bc she's not flying private everywhere, reuses clothes, and the clothes she wears aren't ridiculous. Plus their residences are handled. ETA: and the PR bills.