Catherine STUNS In A Lovely Printed Dress & Van Cleef Alhambra Necklace At The Film Awards In London

Most of the jewelry Catherine wears comes with a paper trail. A queen owned it, or it sat in a vault for decades. One piece in her collection has none of that. It is modern, anyone can buy it, and she has worn it exactly three times. At the BAFTA Film Awards in London, Catherine debuted the Van Cleef and Arpels Magic Alhambra necklace with six motifs. Six mother-of-pearl clovers, each framed in beaded yellow gold, hang from a split chain, so two of them sit off-center. Royal fashion trackers have listed the price between $8,000 and $10,000. The Magic Alhambra line, launched in 2006, built on motifs of different sizes arranged asymmetrically. It descends from something much older. In 1968, Van Cleef and Arpels released the first Alhambra, an opera-length gold chain carrying 20 clover motifs. The design came from Jacques Arpels, nephew of the founder Estelle Arpels, who collected four leaf clovers in his garden and gave them to his staff. He liked to say that to be lucky, you must believe in luck. The name honors the Alhambra Palace in Granada, Spain, where Moorish arches repeat the same four-lobed shape. Princess Grace of Monaco wore Alhambra in the 70s. Queen Camilla wears an Alhambra bracelet with five blue agate motifs to most engagements. Where Catherine's suite came from has never been confirmed. Royal watchers believe it was a birthday gift from King Charles, handed over weeks before that BAFTA night. At a state dinner in Kuala Lumpur, Catherine first wore the Alexander McQueen gown she brought back for that BAFTA night. Cream silk under a sheer overlay, embroidered with gold hibiscus, the national flower of Malaysia. BAFTA had asked guests to re-wear or rent, working with the London College of Fashion. She slimmed and lined the sleeves, then added glitter Jimmy Choo heels priced at £525 and an Anya Hinmarch clutch. In March 2022, on the final night of the Caribbean tour, the necklace came out at a reception hosted by the Governor-General at Bahamar in Nassau. The gown was ice-blue silk duchess satin by Philippa Lepley, worn with embellished Gianvito Rossi-Rania pumps and a Lulu Guinness clutch. In May 2023, at the Coronation concert at Windsor Castle, she paired it with a red Alexander McQueen suit, asymmetric jacket, wide-legged trousers, first seen that January at the Shaping Us launch. The matching Magic Alhambra earrings, two motifs, run about £5,000. In December 2023, and again in December 2025, she wore the earrings alone to the Together at Christmas Carol service. In July 2026, they turned up alone again at the Wimbledon men's final with a green Amelia Wickstead dress. The necklace has not been seen since Windsor. In my view, that split tells you what the suite is really for. The earrings are a workhorse, the necklace is a formal nightpiece she rations. What strikes me is that a design anyone can buy shares a jewelry box with the lover's knot tiara. So here is the question. Would you rather she brought the full suite back for a state occasion, or left it in the drawer and let the earrings carry it? Tell me below.