{"id":581950,"date":"2025-11-20T06:08:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T06:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/581950\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T06:08:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T06:08:18","slug":"kate-middleton-recreates-one-of-princess-dianas-most-memorable-black-tie-moments-for-the-royal-variety-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/581950\/","title":{"rendered":"Kate Middleton recreates one of Princess Diana’s most memorable black tie moments for the Royal Variety Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meanwhile, the bracelet is a rarely-seen treasure from the royal collection. As the name suggests, the piece was originally designed for Mary of Teck, wife of King George V. Composed of diamond bars<\/a> in an art<\/a> deco design, the piece was created in the 1920s, around the time when it was notably worn by Queen Mary in a portrait. Although it was worn as a choker on that occasion, it is not known whether it was originally designed as a bracelet or a choker \u2013 although it has certainly become more popular as a bracelet in recent years.<\/p>\n

After the death of Queen Mary in 1953, the choker was not seen again for more than 20 years, when it reappeared on the wrist of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen<\/a> Mother, in portraits marking her 75th birthday, notes the Royal Watcher<\/a>. After her death in 2002, the bracelet was inherited by Queen Elizabeth II.<\/p>\n

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Pomp, ceremony \u2013 and incomparable glamour: the 35 best photos from Monaco’s National Day celebrations<\/p>\n

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However, it is in the last decade that it has found a new royal fan: Kate Middleton, who first wore the piece as a bracelet for the Chinese state banquet in 2015. The then Duchess of Cambridge<\/a> dazzled in the piece, wearing it with the Lotus Flower Tiara and an elegant red gown. It has been worn on a handful of formal occasions in the years since, including a charity gala in 2016, on a state visit to Paris<\/a> in 2017 and the Diplomatic Corps reception at Buckingham Palace in 2018. It has not been seen since \u2013 until tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meanwhile, the bracelet is a rarely-seen treasure from the royal collection. As the name suggests, the piece was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":581951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3940],"tags":[4080,77,448,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-581950","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-royals","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115580535322814987","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581950","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=581950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/581951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}