Camilla Parker Bowles’s royal jewellery collection, from Prince Charles’ dazzling engagement ring – gifted to the queen mother when Queen Elizabeth was born – to her Van Cleef & Arpels earrings
- The Prince of Wales gifted the Duchess of Cornwall a US$400,000 diamond-encrusted serpent necklace with ruby eyes years before their wedding
- Parker Bowles is frequently spotted wearing her Cubitt-Shand tiara, which she first donned during her wedding day to Andrew Parker Bowles in 1973
Art deco engagement ring
When the Prince of Wales asked Parker Bowles to marry him in 2005, he popped the question with a ring very special to the royal family. He chose a five-carat emerald-cut diamond flanked by three diamond baguettes that was originally a gift to the queen mother in 1929. The queen mother received the item from King George VI when Queen Elizabeth was born and was publicly seen wearing it in the 1980s.
It’s possible the queen inherited the ring when her mother died in 2002 before Prince Charles selected it for the proposal a few years later. Now the ring is believed to be worth a whopping US$140,000, in part due to its rare square cut.
The Cubitt-Shand tiara
Parker Bowles’ engagement ring isn’t the only heirloom she has proudly worn on repeat – she first wore the Cubitt-Shand tiara on her first wedding day to Andrew Parker Bowles in 1973. The floral diamond tiara gets its name from her grandfather Roland Cubitt – who gifted the piece to her grandmother Rosalind – and her father Major Bruce Shand.
