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Meghan Markle<\/a>, the Duchess of Sussex, was gifted a pair of pearl and diamond drop earrings<\/a> by the late Queen Elizabeth II as a wedding gift to mark her official welcome into the Royal Family<\/a> – following a tradition also extended to other royal brides, including Catherine, now the Princess of Wales<\/a>. The elegant earrings were first worn by Meghan shortly after her 2018 marriage to Prince Harry<\/a>, and she went on to wear them at several official engagements during her early years as a working royal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Before the pair embarked on an engagement to Cheshire in June 2018, the late Queen is said to have given her grandson\u2019s new wife a pair of pearl drop earrings<\/a>, which Meghan can be seen wearing in photos. The Monarch embarked on a similar engagement with the then Kate Middleton in Leicester in 2012. The earrings feature simple pearls hanging from a small diamond setting, similar to the late Queen’s own style.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Pearls are often worn by members of the Royal Family for formal occasions and important ceremonies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n After that engagement, Meghan wore the earrings on several occasions, including in Fiji<\/a> in 2018 and at the WellChild Awards later that year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Catherine’s engagement ring<\/a> is a 12-carat oval Ceylon blue sapphire surrounded by 14 solitaire diamonds, set in 18-karat white gold. Formerly worn by Diana, Princess of Wales, this iconic Garrard piece was given to her by Prince William<\/a> in 2010 and is valued at roughly \u00a31million.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Meghan Markle<\/a>‘s engagement ring<\/a>, designed by Prince Harry<\/a> in 2017, is a three-stone triology ring featuring a central cusion-cut diamond from Bostwana and two smaller side stones from Diana’s personal collection.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Originally on a yellow gold band, it was later updated to a delicate, micro-pav\u00e9 diamond band. It is estimated to cost up to \u00a3300,000.<\/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.express.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, was gifted a pair of pearl and diamond drop earrings by the late Queen Elizabeth II as a wedding gift to mark her official welcome into the Royal Family – following a tradition also extended to other royal brides, including Catherine, now the Princess of Wales. The elegant earrings […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2389460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[465972,306508,355423,23067,465971,463970,22730,374233,37936,24085,457952,465973,22769],"class_list":["post-2389459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-cheshire-engagement","tag-duchess-of-sussex","tag-engagement-ring","tag-meghan-markle","tag-pearl-and-diamond-earrings","tag-pearl-drop-earrings","tag-prince-harry","tag-princess-catherine","tag-princess-of-wales","tag-queen-elizabeth-ii","tag-queen-mary-diamond-bandeau","tag-royal-bridges","tag-royal-family"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Meghan-Markles-incredible-gift-from-Queen-Elizabeth-to-welcome-her.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389459","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=2389459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2389461,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389459\/revisions\/2389461"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2389460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2389459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2389459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2389459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}