![]() ![]() ![]() "The African continent holds a very special place in my heart, it is the place my father took my brother and me shortly after our mother died," William said at an event earlier this year. ![]() In October 2010, William popped the question to his then-girlfriend Kate Middleton while on vacation in Mount Kenya. (In the decades since, Queen Elizabeth II has been spotted wearing the blingy brooch on several occasions, including to William's christening.) While no one knows for sure, some believe Diana chose the blue bauble because it reminded her of her mother's engagement ring, while others insist she picked it because it had the biggest stone. "She found she loved it so much that she decided to wear it on her wedding day as her something blue on the front of her dress," Garrard's current creative director, Sara Prentice, told Vogue. Instead, he let Diana pick her own ring from a selection of designs by Garrard, the then crown jeweler.įrom those, Diana picked the sapphire-and-diamond cluster Marguerite ring, which was inspired by a sapphire-and-diamond brooch Prince Albert had asked Garrard to create as a present for his future wife, Queen Victoria, in 1840. " Perhaps that was in part because he proposed without an engagement ring. "I remember thinking, this is a joke, and I said ‘Yeah, OK,’ and laughed. “He said ‘Will you marry me?’ and I laughed," Diana told journalist Andrew Morton while being interviewed for her biography Diana: Her True Story. On February 6, 1981, Charles popped the question during a private dinner at Buckingham Palace. ![]()
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