According to a royal insider, Princess Charlotte is likely to inherit Princess Diana’s iconic jewelry collection.
As the Daily Star reports, the late Diana’s eldest granddaughter, six-year-old Charlotte, is expected to be the first to have her “picks of palace jewels,” including the Spencer tiara that her grandmother wore during her wedding to Prince Charles in 1981.
The tiara was also worn at their weddings by Diana’s older sisters, Lady Sarah McCorquodale and Lady Jane Fellowes, and currently resides with her youngest brother Charles, 9th Earl Spencer.
It was made in part from a wedding gift Lady Sarah Spencer presented to Lady Cynthia Hamilton, Diana’s grandmother, for her wedding to Viscount Althorp in 1919, and other jewels from the Spencer family were also used.
The mother of Prince William and Prince Harry chose to use the Spencer family heirloom instead of borrowing one from the Queen’s collection, as Meghan Markle did when she married Harry in 2018.
In August it will be 25 years since Diana’s death in a car accident in Paris and Charlotte is the older of her two granddaughters – the other is the daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Lilibet Mountbatten-Windsor.
According to GoodToKnow magazine, the palace source claimed, “William is well aware that the earl has daughters of his own, but the two agree that Diana’s iconic piece belongs to her first granddaughter.”
Princess Charlotte will inherit her grandmother Diana’s iconic jewelry collection, according to a royal insider
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Another royal insider told Australian magazine New Idea that after learning from her grandmother, Charlotte knew about the tiara and can’t wait to try it out one day.
They said: “Lottie knows everything about her ‘Granny Diana’ – after all, Diana is one of her middle names. She has also seen pictures of her wearing the tiara.”
Tradition dictates that brides wait until the wedding day before wearing the piece for the first time, so Charlotte may have to wait a while before trying on the tiara.
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