The Priceless Jewellery Of Princess Diana | Her Life Through Jewels | Real Royalty

home city of popes and emperors in 1996 princess diana and her sister sarah paid a private visit as news of her arrival spread the busy traffic of the italian capital became a [Applause] [Music] [Applause] gridlock the almost divorced wife of prince charles diana still retained her special allure she had become an international celebrity once the future queen of britain diana was now an independent woman her clothes and her jewelry marked the change in her status in her new life the tiaras and bull gowns of her royal past were gone her only jewels with her catherine walker dress this night were a pair of diamond and pearl earrings venice the serene republic diana made a private visit in 1995 separated from charles and free from royal constraints her hemlines were shorter and her heels were higher a ruby and diamond necklace adorned this daring red dress by azagori and pearl earrings completed the look for a princess who is now a semi-detached royal in 1997 diana attended a royal gala performance of swan lake wearing a necklace borrowed from royal jewellers garrards it contained diamonds and south sea pearls diana had hoped to own the necklace in a matching set of earrings which had yet to be made [Music] fifteen years earlier the young pregnant diana seen here at the barbican wore pearl and diamond earrings a wedding gift from the emir of qatar the queen had loaned diana a glittering diamond necklace given to her by king khalid of saudi arabia [Music] florence the jewel of the italian renaissance charles and diana made an official visit during a tour of italy in 1985. the princess was wearing a sparkling blue dress [Music] on this occasion she wore sapphire earrings part of a fabulous wedding gift from the crown prince of saudi arabia in this visit to venice during the same tour diana wore more sapphire earrings created from her saudi jewels she thanked her italian hosts in their own language mio marito [Laughter] my husband and i are very happy to be here despite the smiles diana was ill at ease playing the dutiful wife she was concealing an eating disorder and problems with her marriage in 1995 henry kissinger greeted diana in new york when he presented her with the humanitarian of the year award for this prestigious event she chose the amir of qatar's pearl and diamond earrings worn with a daringly low cut gown she knew how to command the attention of everyone in the room i want to say a sincere and heartfelt thank you for this award age 19 diana then a kindergarten assistant still wore her 16th birthday present from her family for her engagement ring a selection of gems was taken to buckingham palace by the crown jewelers diana chose a large oval sapphire her favorite gemstone surrounded by diamonds it cost 28 and a half thousand pounds she chose a very traditional very very grand very large very beautiful but it was a very traditional engagement ring the dark sapphire that was bordered with a with a frame of of diamonds but this suited diana's stature also you have to remember that she was the leader of the sloan rangers at the time this style tribe that that she came to represent and the engagement ring was the the epitome of a sloan piece of jewelry and she wore it fantastically well [Music] the ring had been made by garrod's the crown jewelers the showroom had a distinguished clientele in the workroom skilled craftsmen mount valuable precious stones in elaborate settings like diana's engagement ring but prince charles was furious that the cost of her ring was made public after being featured on the pages of gerard's christmas catalogue you know it's always been a mystery to me why charles who after all dithered for a little time before he asked diana to marry him hadn't sort of got in place a ring that he slipped on her finger as men are supposed to to say will you marry me instead he had the man from gerard the crown jeweler bring down a tray of jewels to windsor so that diana could choose so as a result this ring that she chose which was so beautiful had already been photographed for the for the garage christmas catalogue diana borrowed a silver necklace and earrings for her first event as charles's fiancee a musical evening at the goldsmith's hall but her dress was cut too low and revealed too much cleavage princess grace of monaco was more suitably attired carolyn pride one of diana's flatmates from her single days helped her deal with press attention she talked about how diana coped with public scrutiny i'm surprised again and admire her for the fact that she has not slipped down all the little troughs that have been put in front of her she has navigated very very carefully very successfully and and i really admire her for that and that's inside that's nothing to do with that is nothing to do with a sort of textbook job it really is her self-awareness and her intuition a very clever girl very astute lady i think a lot of people would like to earmark her as a big dumb club but she's not lady diana spencer had come from an aristocratic family with its own stately home althrop in northamptonshire she had moved here with her sister's brother and divorced father in 1975. diana was proud of her family history captured in the ancestral portraits at allthrop in 1977 she showed off the picture gallery to prince charles who was visiting the house on their engagement day charles recalled what a very jolly amusing and attractive 16 year old she was great fun bouncy and full of life diana's father earl spencer was a former equity to the queen and had close connections to the royal family queen mary was one of my grandmothers prince of wales those days was one of my godfathers and my mother was a lady in waiting and now my daughter has married prince of wales diana was very like her grandmother cynthia diana was born in 1961 her family lived in a house on the queen sandringham estate when her parents divorced the family remained with their father diana's upbringing made her independent she's taking it all in her stride i think she'd always be like that she's very practical down i very down-to-earth very practical very good housewife and incidentally when she was a baby she was a superb physical specimen she'd want any baby price that was going the glass coach taking diana to her wedding and the world's first glimpse of diana the bride with her proud father in saint paul's cathedral her mother francis wearing a pearl choker almost a family trademark diana's grandmother lady firmoy was wearing her choker so too was diana's eldest sister sarah and her other sister jane was wearing hers the bride wore the spencer family tiara and her mother's earrings [Music] diana had during the ceremony been wearing the spencer family tiara which is a wonderful piece and you know i think in those circles it would be normal for a great aristocratic family to marry their daughter wearing this tiara which is part of their heirloom i dianna francis [Music] take the charles philip father [Music] to my wedded husband when charles and diana left for their honeymoon the bride was wearing the spencer family six-row pearl choker loaned by her sister sarah who'd worn it during the wedding ceremony afterwards i suppose they popped upstairs as sisters do and she put her necklace round diana's neck charles had already accepted a wedding gift of cufflinks from his mistress mrs camilla parker-bowles on their honeymoon diana wore her own three-strand pearl choker with turquoise princes and potentates showered the bride with gifts the most expensive was this wonderful suite of burmese sapphires from the crown prince of saudi arabia the suite included earrings bracelet watch ring and a large pendant diana had the set altered to make a necklace a choker on a velvet band interchangeable sets of earrings and a headband [Music] she was very fond of the sapphire and diamond suite that she received as a wedding gift from the crown prince of saudi arabia and she really enjoyed wearing that and i think that was very important for her as a young girl she had to suddenly take on this cloak of grandeur and splendor and the jewels certainly helped her to do that and she wore them she wore them beautifully and she also brought something light and fresh and young to fine jewellery which we haven't seen in in england for a very long time in 1996 diana wore this 11-string pearl choker with the saudi earrings dressed by versace she was a confident woman during a visit to the united states for a charity event the saudi jewels were among diana's favorites on this occasion in washington she's wearing the diamond and sapphire saudi watch [Music] cardiff 1981 and a nervous young princess of wales wearing her saudi sapphires is about to make her first speech to the people of wales to come to wales and to its capital cardiff i look forward to returning many times in the future and also i'd like to just add how proud i am to be princess of such a wonderful place and the welsh people who are very special to me thank you [Applause] a year later and now mother of prince william diana attended a function at the guildhall london her one shoulder style dress by bruce oldfield emphasized her dramatic loss of weight she was suffering from an eating disorder she's wearing a six-strand pearl and diamond choker with matching diamond earrings loaned to her by the queen prince william's birth in 1982 ensured the succession to the throne even at his christening diana was less formal and more tactile than any royal mothers before her to celebrate william's arrival charles gave her a diamond necklace with a love heart she wore it the following year in australia when the couple made a lengthy tour on behalf of the queen diana insisted they took baby william with them on arrival she was wearing her favorite gold watch which she'd worn since before her marriage shortly after their engagement in 1981 charles left his fiancee behind for a pre-scheduled trip to australia diana was seen crying at the airport she suspected he was still in contact with camilla in australia charles played polo two years later in 1983 he recalled that time in a speech ladies and gentlemen the last time i was here was two years ago in 1981 shortly before uh we were married and at that time everybody was saying good luck and i hope everything goes well and how lucky you are to be engaged to such a lovely lady and my goodness i was lucky enough to marry her and we had many many masteries it's amazing what ladies do when you're backstage with her spencer tiara diana was wearing a diamond pendant bearing the prince of wales crest of three feathers another wedding gift when charles gave her a pair of emerald earrings diana adapted the necklace by adding an emerald drop to the pendant [Music] today the same pendant is worn as a broach by camilla duchess of cornwall charles's second wife in new zealand in 1983 prince william performed a crawl about to the amusement of his parents and the press on their first wedding anniversary charles gave diana a charm bracelet with a koala bear each year he added a new charm it was very charming at the beginning charles gave her a little koala bear as a memory of that and you know these little things between husband and wife have always been or between mother and daughter have always been part of royal family jewels on the one side you've got these fabulous monumental pieces and on the other side you've got these very small personal things that i think probably they often hold much more deer in 1984 diana wore the bracelet shortly after the birth of prince harry by then it included a w for william and an h for harry charms are so amuletic so important for marking milestones in life but the charm bracelet was in a way cut off in its prime we perhaps should have noticed when the when the charm stopped arriving when she stopped wearing it [Music] the state opening of parliament is a special event in the royal calendar in 1984 diana wearing her spencer tiara with her hair piled high joined the queen and prince charles for this very formal occasion she was criticized for upstaging the queen the star of this show the queen is wearing the hanoverian tiara dating back to king george iv in 1821. there's no doubt that right through the great long years of monarchy in every country jewels have always been associated with it it's a sense of splendor you know there's a little saying in the royal family that oh we have to put on our best bits do we meaning it's one of these state occasions when they put all the jewels on but of course everything has changed so much you know there's been a lot of playing down of that elaboration and certainly if you look at the other european royal families now you'll see that they do get out the jewels for the state occasions but not for their own private occasions not when they have their own anniversaries early on in her marriage diana learnt quickly about the significance of jules as symbols of monarchy had she become queen when charles ascended to the throne this is one of the tiaras she would probably have worn affectionately known in royal circles as granny's tiara queen elizabeth inherited it from her grandmother and she uses it constantly on official occasions it has nine large oriental pearls on diamond spikes set on a bandeau base of 27 brilliant diamonds enclosed in a metal band tiaras are a symbol of authority the symbol of power that's why when the queen's wearing her crown it it makes a fact i am the queen i am the head and when a lady wears a hat she must feel it must feel very important or a gentleman wears a top hat for instance it's it's it's a symbol of authority of um class perhaps in 1967 the queen wore a pearl and diamond tiara for a visit of king faisal of saudi arabia the queen loaned his present of a diamond necklace to diana for the wales tour of australia in 1983 this was an important tour to bolster commonwealth support although too thin diana looked radiant in a frothy blue and silver bruce oldfield dress the queen's diamond necklace emphasized diana's position as a senior royal wherever she went she received a rapturous reception she had become the jewel in the crown dancing with charles she was the center of attention something that was just beginning to irritate her insecure husband early in her marriage princess diana transformed some royal emeralds into an eye-catching headband the emeralds belonged to queen mary who left them to her granddaughter the queen known as the cambridge emeralds their history is an intriguing one queen mary's mother the duchess of cambridge and her husband adolphus acquired them in germany in a rather unusual way they went to frankfurt on a tour and there was a lottery for for a charity and the duchess of cambridge decided that yes she would buy some tickets and actually won and was presented with this brown box full full of these emeralds the duchess of cambridge gave the globular green cabochon gems to her son frank who gave them to his mistress when he died suddenly his sister mary wasted no time in retrieving them queen mary was very upset at the idea that these jewels which were supposedly part of the great heritage should not be in the family and she went out once she became queen she went out to get these jewels back the cambridge emeralds were part of that heritage i love the idea that just as we have squabbles in our families over some tiny little bracelet that granny promised to somebody it's just like that in the royal family on a slightly grander scale in 1985 when they returned to australia diana stole the show with the family heirloom spanning her forehead she did this wonderful thing with the cambridge emeralds with the wonderful art deco choker which she put onto onto a velvet band and fastened around her forehead to wear in in 1920s style like a bandeau and i think that's a really enduring image of the of the princess in jewels showed that she didn't take them too seriously she obviously enjoyed she loved wearing jewelry and she wore them beautifully but there was a slight irreverence which was so much part of her of her personal style she'd love to play around with them and i think that had a huge impact on on fashion on jewelry wearing generally throughout the 80s among the jewels inherited by the queen from her grandmother queen mary is grand duchess vladimir's tiara she escaped the russian revolution with her jewels queen mary bought it in 1921. the queen wore it to visit pope john paul ii at the vatican in 1980 based on grand duchess vladimir's tiara queen mary designed a stunning tiara which the queen gave to diana as a wedding present known as the love is not tiara it was made in 1914 by gerard's to queen mary's own design [Music] diana wore it on various state occasions and many foreign tours in 1989 diana wore the lovers knot in hong kong with her white pearl encrusted elvis presley style dress and jacket by catherine walker at the beginning of course diana wore the lovers not tiara in quite conventional ways for conventional occasions just when you would expect her to wear it and how you would expect her to wear it and then suddenly she appeared in hong kong in that magnificent elvis pearl encrusted outfit with the lovers not tiara and again we saw diana skill just delivering the unexpected diana had another fabulous royal gem a sri lankan sapphire the size of a duck's egg set in a double row of diamonds it was a gift from queen elizabeth the queen mother diana wore it on her shoulder to a banquet at hampton court in 1982 later the broach was changed to be the centerpiece of an elaborate choker seven strings of pearls held it in place one with sapphire earrings this was a spectacular combination diana wasn't really a broach person it didn't go with those clothes during the 1980s big shoulders so on so she turned this brooch into a necklace and had it strung on pearls and it almost became her trademark and in a way you could say it was a kind of meld of the two families it was the spencer trademark of the pearls with the uh beautiful blue sapphire big jewel coming from the royal family and she brought it together and made it her own as diana developed her own style and her own life um i think that she really understood how to wear her jewels to express her individuality and her personal style but she she wore it with great flair and panache in unexpected ways on that on that evening that we all remember when she appeared at the serpentine gallery um in her short devastatingly glamorous black dress that she wore to great effect with with the choker and you just wouldn't quite expect to see quite a conventional style of a choker worn with that dress and i think it made the most enormous statement saying i am my own person i you know i am part of the royal family but i'm going to do my own thing charles and diana visited the white house in november 1985. the couple were guests of president ronald reagan and his wife nancy diana wore the sapphire choker with a midnight blue velvet gown designed by victor edelstein president reagan recalled the evening in an interview we had invited for that particular dinner at the white house a group of people who themselves were stars in whatever their activity was very prominent well-known people i'd had an opportunity at dinner to hear of what she thought about some of particularly the performing stars that were there so the dancing began but yet she was the center of attention the the rest of the people were pretty much of an audience so i managed to get word to john travolta she had mentioned approvingly during the during dinner to ask her to dance he did and they danced beautifully together and it was it was a kind of high spot that i do remember in that entire evening a year later in 1986 the royal couple made a tour of the gulf states [Music] in the male-dominated society of saudi arabia even a princess was expected to take second place to her husband king fudd was a great admirer of the british monarchy this was the man who had given diana the wonderful sapphire and diamond suite as a wedding present to meet the king in riyadh diana wore a long black and white duchess gown by elizabeth and david emanuel tied at the hip with a large striped bow the lover's not tiara signified her royal duty as an ambassador for britain however she was painfully thin hiding an eating disorder and her marriage was in severe difficulties diana then just 25 had to keep up the appearance of a devoted royal wife in qatar it was charles who received jewels he was awarded the golden qatar order of merit the tour moved on to oman where the couple visited the sultan in his palace his austere appearance suggested a man of traditional tastes but here was a host who really knew how to please his guests to prince charles he gave a new 80 000 pound aston martin car diana received a suite of remarkable jewels at first buckingham palace denied they had received these extravagant gifts lavish presents though from wealthy rulers are not new to members of the royal family who are accustomed to receiving them in 1911 king george v and queen mary were crowned emperor and empress of india and at the delhi derba queen mary was showered with priceless jewels from the indian maharajas which still adorned members of the royal family today there's nothing really new about being swamped with jewels because the queen herself when she got married and remember she wasn't queen at that point she also had an enormous amount of jewelry given to her and it's always the case that people who have their own stock of jewelry can do it it's different if we're talking about a state gift because that has to be decided upon but the coffers of the royal family were enormously enlarged in queen victoria's era and reign because of the jewels from the maharajahs who like the middle east and potentates today are entirely in control of the situation diana was delighted with her very valuable gift from the sultan of oman the style suggested the crescent moon symbol of islamic faith but the setting of the necklace bracelet and earrings was strikingly modern the people who were most able to give jewels to diana at that particular point were the gulf states where they've got these absolute rulers if they want to go and order jewels or give their own jewels or take something from their own treasury and give it to princess dan or anyone else they are free to do so a year later during a tour of germany diana unveiled her priceless omani jewels she wore the velvet dress in which she danced at the white house a spencer tiara was held in place by her up swept hair with their marriage under strain the royal couple were flying the flag for britain to wore her jewels to send the message out to charles and to everyone who who saw her and to say how confident she was in her new life how she felt in her own skin and she really used the power of jewels to make a statement about her her ideals her beliefs her values and of course her personal style sydney 1988 this is the third tour the whales made to australia charles wore a naval uniform and diana chose a nautical look she kept her neck bare and just wore pearl earrings [Applause] a flotilla of yachts commemorated australia's bicentenary [Music] the couple were doing their duty for queen and commonwealth [Music] there were a few informal moments on this tour which disguised the rift in the couple's private life diana seemed more relaxed in australia than at home there were amusing sights too when the aussie beach guards put on a show for their royal spectator [Music] by now diana excelled in upstaging her husband knowing the press would publicize her actions the saudi sapphires so much admired in previous australian visits were worn once more to great effect dancing with charles in melbourne diana created a sensation with her hair worn up her bare neck and low-cut gown emphasized the magnificent saudi gems who would have guessed that this royal couple seemingly in step with each other lived almost separate lives out on her own diana responded to criticism of high spending by wearing the same gown several times this one by victor edelstein seen in washington in 1990 was worn eight times in two years [Music] diana loved america where she felt at home in return the americans made her feel welcome there she could escape the stuffiness of royal life and the constant attention of the british press [Music] she had a sense of freedom i think as many people do who are harassed by the paparazzi in england and then when they escape it seems like a wonderful new deal i also think that america really embraced diana made her feel wonderful and it is a land of freedom a land of no stuffiness and i'm sure that in some ways diana liked that [Music] in 1991 diana made a solo tour of pakistan she had grown adept at sending out unspoken signals of loneliness knowing that earrings draw attention to the face she chose her largest pair the wedding gift from the amir of qatar she'd worn the ornate diamond and pearl drop earrings many times diana owned another pair of pearl earrings a wedding gift from the spencer family jeweler collingwood she wore these with her lovers not tiara and with the king faisal diamond necklace loaned by the queen when she developed her own style when she became much more confident she took to wearing bigger clip-on button earrings which was a you know very different look that's a little bit a little bit stronger a little bit less romantic but she understood that earrings can light up the face immediately especially together with it with a choker and a necklace that was her hallmark in 1993 after her separation from charles diana attended an english national ballet performance at her majesty's theatre in london but diana's life half in and half out of the royal family was fraught with difficulties at this stage she was trying to work out the delicate balance needed in her new life she underlined her still royal status by wearing multi strands of pearls around her neck in a style reminiscent of queen alexandra herself a former princess of wales what i think was very interesting was that she echoed the style of princess alexandra who was one of course the most elegant princess of wales in in our history um and i think that was it was very beautiful it was very elegant of her to do that and of course very very romantic in the early 90s diana's love for pearl chokers inherited from the spencer family created a new fashion trend she almost started single-handedly what i call the new romantic craze and that pearl choker became a badge a symbol of this of the new romantic look all her pie crust collars the wonderful frills that she wore um the pearls really played into that extremely extremely well in 1995 at the national gallery diana met the model twiggy she combined a set of simple pearl earrings with a choker with layers of tiny pearls worn high on the neck the pearls set off her complexion i mean she was such a beautiful girl with such wonderful glowing skin and the pearls emphasized her her beauty they were quite shy and coy and again of course they suited her as she was at at the time and they just started you know they launched a million pearl chokers they kicked off the most huge craze for pearl chokers in her private life with her sons she was just a single mother her casual attire required no formal jewels for her charity work she often dressed like a businesswoman in a smart suit with minimal decoration a regular part of diana's day involved shopping in chelsea the fashionable district of london one of her favorite stores was butler and wilson a costume jewelry shop we know that she was very fond of rummaging around and finding a fun piece of jewelry she appeared in a tuxedo looking stunning wearing the butler and wilson serpent on her on her lapel she even dared to wear a jeweled order a star she wore it right in the center [Music] diana mingled easily with other shoppers who were unaware that a princess was shopping next to them very easy with the staff always had a great sense of humor and enjoyed shopping so we've seen a lot of very famous people and they never they're always a foot smaller or they're not as beautiful as what you imagine with her she was the reverse she was a foot taller than what you imagined she was she actually glowed so she had wonderful piercing blue eyes and she was extraordinary so whenever she was wearing anything it always enhanced it she always brought very classic things too that she would you would see her wearing all the time she brought a little pair of beans that were french glass earrings black french glasses she wore them all the time about five pounds so it wasn't intrinsic things it was because it went she wore things because it actually fitted with what she was wearing another famous pair of earrings that she wore all the time were silver earrings just a plain gold so she accessorized herself she was so she would try things from the very simple to remove very exciting things a big star necklace or a wonderful star pinned on the back of her hair she was so much part of the 80s style and it was at that time that costume jewelry was really booming she was a young girl she loved the fun she loved the wit and whimsy of costume jewelry and she really indulged and i think she had a bit of fun you know she liked to to mix the very grand royal jewels with a piece of costume jewelry from butter and wilson diamond earrings were clever fakes sapphires were false these earrings were costume jewellery the shimmering gem was made of glass the stones in this star were paced this diamante lizard was inspired by diana she wore it on the lapel of an evening suit during a visit to canada but somehow it escaped charles's attention imitation pearl earrings and gold ones were often worn it was often hard to tell genuine gems from fun fakes the false jewels almost became a metaphor suggesting the double life diana was leading behind the scenes south korea 1992 the last tour days before the wales is separation the splendor of diana's jewels cannot disguise her troubled expression but it was in portugal in 1987 that the cracks in their marriage began to appear bulimia had taken a grip of her and she and charles were drifting apart she later said portugal was the last time we were close as man and wife in 1989 charles and diana made another golf tour in abu dhabi they were treated to a day at the camel races a novelty for charles who enjoyed horse racing but perhaps less so for diana [Music] she struggled to hide her boredom with her husband as much as with the camels while charles carried on seeing camilla diana transferred her affections to a young cavalry officer james hewitt who helped her to maintain an equilibrium in her life he gave her a gift of emerald earrings which were never seen in public on the night of charles's televised admission of adultery with camilla diana appeared at the serpentine gallery wearing a sensuous low-cut short gown designed by christina strombolian her giant sapphire and pearl choker around her neck i think it made the most enormous statement saying i am my own person i you know i am part of the royal family but i'm going to do my own thing at the serpentine when charles was admitting to his infidelity in the television program and diana in that little black dress with wonderful jewel on it was making a statement she was saying here i am i am gorgeous and i'm my own woman and responding if you like to what charles was doing but she responded via the camera not with words in 1997 a few weeks before diana's death diana's dresses from her royal past were auctioned for charity in new york including her serpentine gallery dress prince william had persuaded his mother to get rid of her unwanted clothes 65 000 are you all down last time at 65 dollars for you sir in 1995 diana again wore her sapphire and pearl choker at a charity function in new york this time with a night dress style gown by avant-garde designer galliano british-born liz tilberus befriended diana seen here in london during a tv interview before she became editor of the american fashion magazine harper's bazaar and moved to new york diana was very fortunate in that she also had advice from some of the best fashion editors and some of the best magazine editors um not only in the uk but all around the world and she formed a very important personal relationship with with liz tilberis and i'm sure that liz liz had great style and i'm sure that she steered diana in those early days towards developing her own very strong very individual style diana was in new york to honor liz who was fighting cancer it was very close to her very sadly that she did not survive but diana right to the end helped cancer charities any time that liz was very bravely and stalwartly putting together a charity she involved diana in it ladies and gentlemen i'm immensely proud to be here in new york tonight with you all to be giving this award to a lady from my own country who is also a dear friend and whose talent and courage has been an inspiration to us all ladies and gentlemen liz tilberis sadly liz died of cancer four years later [Applause] in june 1997 diana attended a charity performance of swan lake at the royal albert hall performed by the english national ballet a company she regularly supported her sparkling south sea pearl and diamond necklace made by gerard's the crown jewelers was loaned to her for the evening [Music] diana's lover ballet goes back to her childhood when she wanted to be a ballerina but grew too tall [Music] at the beginning of her royal life she was patron of the london city ballet and regularly attended their rehearsals many of the dancers were close to her in age and she enjoyed talking about the practicalities of dance routines the south sea pearl and diamond necklace eventually had matching earrings which were made later but diana never wore them the swan lake suite was eventually sold at auction to an american collector for over 300 000 pounds some of the proceeds went to charity on her 36th birthday diana was at the tate gallery wearing the cambridge emeralds shortly after she agreed to join dodie fired in the south of france on holiday diana fell for dodie the playboy son of her host muhammad al-fayed dodi showered her with gifts of jewellery he wanted to impress her on their last day aboard the luxury yacht johnycal they left the yacht for paris where they visited the ritz hotel owned by dodie's father diana was wearing gold earrings a gold watch a seed pearl bracelet with diamond encrusted ends and a gold ring set with diamonds all given to her by dodie they left the ritz by a back exit hoping to throw off waiting paparazzi their car driven at speed crashed in an underpass dodie died instantly diana later in hospital when charles saw diana's body he was upset that one earring was missing it was found later embedded in the crushed mercedes it was to kensington palace that her coffin was taken during her life she had used her home in london from where she attended so many occasions as the people's princess i think you've got to remember that when diana appeared in public wearing those grand royal jewels it was a it was an amazing vision and it was something that we hadn't seen in england for a very long time we hadn't seen that kind of glamour and particularly we hadn't seen the combination of such youth with such great and splendid jewellery she brought a youth and a freshness to jewellery wherever she went she brought a radiance into people's lives her image will never be forgotten she was radiant she was quite an exceptional person and you know all the jewels in the world cannot make somebody shine if they do not shine themselves diana was somebody who without the diamonds was also a shining light and to me she brought a lot to the royal family and i think we should think of her legacy as something very sweet and strong diana had stored her precious gems in a safe under the stairs at kensington palace each item was kept in a cushioned box and inside was a label in her handwriting the label for lovers not tiara said tiara given to me by the queen as a wedding present this one said engagement present given to me by queen elizabeth on her last birthday diana wore her emerald choker with emerald earrings bought by charles for her 22nd birthday william asked to keep her engagement ring but diana's fabulous collection of jewelry has not been seen since her death and in 1993 dinah's brother demanded the return of the spencer tiara saying it had been on loan she wore it for the last time at a reception for the malaysian royal family in november 1993. spencer tiara is now in the diana museum at ulthrop along with the earrings her mother lent her for the wedding diana is buried on the estate [Music] when she died the queen checked that all the royal jewels she had borrowed for her foreign visits were returned to buckingham palace the royal jewels are stored in a six metre high vault at the palace diana's personal jewels have been kept for her sons muhammad al fayed claims that dodie planned to give her this engagement ring which she warn it we will never really [Music] know [Music] [Music] you

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Keywords: real royalty, real royalty channel, british royalty, royalty around the world, royal history, princess diana, royal jewels, crown jewels, princess of wales, charles and diana, royal family, house windsor

Id: chQl92hlLF0

Length: 49min 6sec (2946 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 27 2020