when the Prince Guillermo got engaged in 2010 to Catherine Middleton, all eyes fell on the stunning ring that had once belonged to Diana of Wales. No one was actually surprised that the eldest son of the then Prince of Wales used this piece for the engagement, as a tribute to his mother and to somehow ensure that his ring would end up being worn by a future queen. consort. However, already then, articles were published in the media around the world that made reference to the fact that the jewel had remained in the hands of Enrique after the death of Lady Di and that the brothers had come to an agreement with precisely this objective: to ensure that the memory of Diana would always be associated with the throne on which she never sat.
Princes Henry and William together.
A story that was talked about again in the same terms when Enrique got engaged to Meghan Markle in the fall of 2017 and chose a custom-made piece with a larger diamond and two smaller ones from his mother’s personal collection. . He himself said that it was important that something of her always be with her future wife. At that time he did not raise any doubts about the only version that had been given around the engagement ring of the then Duchess of Cambridgebut it seems that reality was not as it had been counted.
At least that is how he has stated it in one of the chapters of his controversial biography, Sparewhich has raised blisters all over the world and in which he lashes out in a particularly significant way against his father’s wife, the Queen Consort Camilla Parker-Bowles, and his brother, Prince William. In the text, the Duke of Sussex assures that things were not as they have been told, but in another way.
The Princess of Wales with the ring at a recent event.
«I never gave Willy that ring, because it was not mine to give it to him. He already had it. He had asked for it after Mum died, and I had been more than happy to let him go,” Prince Harry says in the book. Some statements that the former butler of Princess Diana has now emphatically refuted.
In an interview with the tabloid The Mirror, Paul Burrell, who for many years was one of the trusted people of the Princess, as well as Queen Elizabeth, assures that he witnessed how Diana’s children had the option of choosing which pieces of their mother they wanted to keep. «Enrique told me that he remembered holding his mother’s hand and that the ring hurt him because it was so big. When the Princess died, William said that he wanted to keep the Cartier watch, which Grandpa Spencer had given him for his 21st birthday, while Harry wanted to keep the ring,” Burrell revealed.
Paul Burrell in a file image.
As life would have it, William was the one to get engaged first, and according to Burrell, it’s likely that the brothers reached some kind of agreement because, as far as he knows, it was the Duke of Sussex who had the ring, which undoes the story. version that is now giving.
