{"id":174682,"date":"2025-06-11T04:04:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T04:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/174682\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T04:04:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T04:04:10","slug":"kate-middleton-no-longer-wears-her-400000-engagement-ring-sparks-speculation-trending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/174682\/","title":{"rendered":"Kate Middleton no longer wears her $400,000 engagement ring, sparks speculation | Trending"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Kate Middleton has been spotted several times in the recent past without her iconic engagement ring, fueling rumours about trouble in her marriage with Prince William. According to a report<\/a> in GB News, the British royal seems to have replaced her diamonds-and-sapphire engagement ring with a “more practical\u201d stack of eternity rings.<\/p>\n

\"Britain's Britain’s Prince William and Kate, Princess of Wales. Kate seen here with her iconic engagement ring.(AP) <\/p>\n

While GB News made the switch seem like a matter of convenience, royal watchers are wondering if there\u2019s more to this story than meets the eye. Some are convinced that Kate\u2019s recent refusal to wear her engagement ring \u2013 that once belonged to Princess Diana<\/a> \u2013 signals marital troubles.<\/p>\n

Kate\u2019s iconic engagement ring<\/p>\n

Kate Middleton\u2019s engagement ring is one of the most easily-recognisable and iconic pieces of jewellery among the crown jewels. This blue sapphire and diamond ring is the same one that Prince (now King) Charles used to propose to Diana with in 1981.<\/p>\n

The ring features a 12-carat oval Ceylon sapphire encircled by 14 solitaire diamonds. It was designed by London jeweller Garrard.<\/p>\n

According to GB News, Charles <\/a>purchased the ring for 28,000 GBP ($37,700 approximately) over four decades ago. It is today worth more than 300,000 GBP ($400,000 approximately).<\/p>\n

Kate\u2019s new stack of eternity rings<\/p>\n

Kate seems to have replaced her engagement ring with a stack of rings that are considerably lower in value. According to GB News, this includes a Cartier <\/a>‘\u00c9tincelle’ band and a diamond eternity ring, valued at \u00a31,500, that William gifted her after Prince George’s birth.<\/p>\n

The total value of her ring stack is estimated at $10,000, much lower than the value of her heirloom engagement ring.<\/p>\n

Trouble in Kate and William\u2019s marriage?<\/p>\n

Fans of the royal couple are wondering whether the lack of engagement ring signifies marital trouble.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like the British tabloids are desperate to spill about the state of their marriage, just like they were with Diana and Charles but they can’t so they will drop snide jabs like this as their consolation prize,\u201d read one comment on Reddit.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI think it’s reflective of W&K’s marriage. They are now co-workers who are working in tandem to keep the monarchy going (even though they do the bare minimum),\u201d another said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a ring she’s so attached to she’s gardened and sucbadived in it, so it seems odd that she’s not going to wear it anymore\u2026\u201d another noted.<\/p>\n

This is not the first time that rumours have swirled about the state of Prince William and Kate\u2019s marriage. Last year, Kate disappeared from the public eye shortly before announcing her cancer diagnosis. At that time, report after report had spoken of rumours about an affair between Kate and Rose Hanbury.<\/p>\n

(Also read: Who is Rose Hanbury? Did Prince William cheat on wife Kate Middleton? Expert reviews new book claims<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kate Middleton has been spotted several times in the recent past without her iconic engagement ring, fueling rumours…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7714,7713,72224,533,72226,72225,2832,532,1412,2831,7710,519,7711,7712],"class_list":{"0":"post-174682","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-british-royal-family","9":"tag-catherine","10":"tag-catherine-middleton","11":"tag-engagement-ring","12":"tag-kate-middleton","13":"tag-kate-middleton-engagement-ring","14":"tag-marital-troubles","15":"tag-prince-of-wales","16":"tag-prince-william","17":"tag-princess-diana","18":"tag-princess-of-wales","19":"tag-royal-families","20":"tag-royal-family","21":"tag-uk-royal-family","22":"tag-william"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114662753597661911","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}