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Princess Diana\u2019s<\/strong> engagement ring has been in the royal family for more than four decades, from the early days of her relationship with Prince Charles<\/strong> to its place on Kate Middleton<\/strong><\/a>, Princess of Wales\u2019 hand today.<\/p>\n But a new report suggests that the ring\u2019s real story is more than what meets the eye. In that, it is also about how Diana made a very public choice that did not match royal expectations \u2014 and how that choice set her apart from the start.<\/p>\n RadarOnline<\/a> exclusively reported that Princess Diana chose her engagement ring in 1981 from a Garrard catalogue rather than opting for a custom piece.<\/p>\n The report says this mattered within royal circles, since brides traditionally wore rings created as one-of-a-kind designs against Diana\u2019s<\/a> 12-carat oval Ceylon sapphire ring, which cost more than $37,000 at the time. Moreover, it had 14 diamonds.<\/p>\n The outlet reported that the ring stood out because the public could buy the same design, which amplified the reaction to Diana\u2019s pick.<\/p>\n A palace source told RadarOnline, \u201cAt the time, this ring was seen as a significant departure from tradition \u2013 royal brides were expected to wear something unique, commissioned and entirely exclusive.\u201d<\/p>\n Hence, \u201cDiana choosing a ring that anyone could theoretically buy was viewed by some as almost unthinkable.\u201d But as the source noted, \u201cIt also spoke volumes about her independence and instinct to do things differently,\u201d when she wore the ring during her marriage and at times after her 1996 divorce.\u00a0<\/p>\n Furthermore, the design is still connected to royal history and echoes a sapphire brooch that Prince Albert gave Queen Victoria in 1840.<\/p>\n After Princess Diana died in 1997 at age 36, Prince Harry<\/a> reportedly inherited the engagement ring and later passed it to Prince William when William prepared to propose to Catherine in 2010.\u00a0Now, what some once viewed as a break from tradition became one of the strongest symbols related to Diana.<\/p>\n Originally reported by Ishika Mishra on <\/em>RealityTea<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n The post Princess Diana\u2019s Engagement Ring \u2018Shattered\u2019 Royal Tradition \u2014 Source<\/a> appeared first on Mandatory<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.aol.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Princess Diana\u2019s engagement ring has been in the royal family for more than four decades, from the early days of her relationship with Prince Charles to its place on Kate Middleton, Princess of Wales\u2019 hand today. 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In that, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2383843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[23651,21730,23299],"class_list":["post-2383842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-kate-middleton","tag-prince-charles","tag-princess-diana"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Princess-Dianas-Engagement-Ring-\u2018Shattered-Royal-Tradition-\u2014-Source.com2Fen2Faol_mandatory_8132Fbeb44a3c61ca55de24c054eca8b0e063.webp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2383842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2383844,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383842\/revisions\/2383844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2383843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2383842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2383842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2383842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Princess Diana\u2019s engagement ring \u2018was seen as a significant departure from tradition,\u2019 per source<\/h2>\n