
Catherine’s Royal Return, Told Through Her Jewellery
What do a pair of pearls from a baby’s christening, small garnet earrings on a British mountain peak, and a historic tiara the world hadn’t seen in exactly twenty years have in common?
These jewels cannot tell us exactly what Catherine was thinking during the most difficult period of her life. But if we place them in the order she chose them, a deeply moving picture emerges. Her return to royal duties was incredibly measured, and so were her jewellery choices. During her hardest days, she reached for pieces that told a very different story than royal diamonds. And when it was finally time to take her place at state banquets again, her choices surprised many.
Let's look inside Catherine's jewellery box to see which pieces she kept close during her recovery, what gave her strength as she took her first public steps, and how, step by step, the magnificent scale of her jewels finally returned.
