However, the court jeweler claims the eldest son of the Ninth Earl Spencer, Viscount Althorpe, will be the one to inherit it instead. Auction house Sotheby's also confirmed the Spencer Tiara remains in the possession of the Spencer family.
As the eldest of her granddaughters, Princess Charlotte will reportedly get the first pick of Princess Diana's family jewels, with the most coveted item said to be The Spencer Tiara.
The rules of royalty
After her death, the iconic jewel, that is the Spencer tiara was returned to the Spencer family and there it remains still. That is the reason Princess Kate cannot wear the tiara in question.
The Spencer Family Tiara: about £400,000 (or $440,860)
Though tradition wrote that women marrying into the royal family should wear from the family's vault, Princess Diana broke this on her wedding day by donning one of her own family's heirlooms. The Spencer family tiara is now estimated to be worth about £400,000.
Out of all Queen Elizabeth's selection of dazzlers, Meghan Markle chose Queen Mary's diamond bandeau tiara. The Duchess of Sussex had all the freedom to borrow the Spencer Tiara, but she, reportedly, didn't want to get the amount of attention it would have received.
'Unknown Russian origins' was picked up and used to infer that Meghan had wanted to wear the Grand Duchess Vladimir's Tiara with the Cambridge Emerald drops. The Grand Duchess Vladimir's tiara has very clear and documented origins.
So what did Kate Middleton inherit from Queen Elizabeth? Radar Online reported in September 2022 that Kate was expected to inherit $110 million in jewelry from the Queen's personal jewelry collection, which includes 300 pieces that belonged specifically to the Queen and not the Crown.
The Queen Mary Lover's Knot Tiara is the tiara Kate most gravitates towards, but she also sports the Lotus Flower Tiara from time to time.
Markle is certainly eligible to wear one, as royal etiquette dictates you can do so if you either were born a princess or married into the royal family.
After the princess' death, most of her personal jewelry was inherited by her two sons Princes William and Harry, with pieces loaned to her during her lifetime being returned to Queen Elizabeth II, where they are most likely to have been inherited by King Charles in 2022.
Princess Charlotte has no money, but she is the richest kid in the world. As a minor, Princess Charlotte does not have a personal net worth, howevern according to Reader's Digest Australia, Princess Charlotte is estimated to be worth $5 billion.
Perhaps the most famous piece of jewelry Kate inherited from Princess Diana is this sapphire engagement ring. The ring was created by British jeweler Garrard and chosen by Prince Charles for his proposal to Diana in 1981.
While the Greville Tiara was actually Queen Elizabeth's—on extended loan to Camilla after first gaining renown as one of the Queen Mother's choice sparklers—the Cubitt Tiara is one of the Camilla's family heirlooms, according to the Court Jeweller.
Diana once again chose the Spencer tiara to attend a reception in Australia. This time, though, she paired the tiara with matching sapphire and diamond pieces—a wedding present to Diana from the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia.
When Diana vacated that title, she also apparently vacated the tiara. She was able to keep personal gifts, but not official ones, and that apparently included this tiara. By the time she died in 1997, the tiara had been returned to the palace vaults.
Princess Eugenie's wedding day tiara is the most expensive worn in history, according to new research. Eugenie had the rare honor of wearing the Greville Emerald Kokoshnik tiara, something which no member of the Royal Family had worn in public before her wedding day.
As many speculated, the bride did indeed wear a small tiara. The “Maidenhair Fern” tiara was handmade for Pippa by Robinson Pelham.
The real Cambridge Lover's Knot Tiara currently belongs to the family of Georg and Marie Gabrielle von Waldburg zu Zeil. The Cambridge Lover's Knot Tiara was gifted to Princess Augusta of Hesse-Kassel upon her 1818 union to the Duke of Cambridge, King George III's seventh son.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle\x27s children, Archie and Lilibet, can inherit royal titles following Queen Elizabeth II\x27s death at age 96. The Queen is reported to have left her personal inheritance all to Prince ... the prince did not get an inheritance from the Queen\x27s will.
Following Queen Elizabeth II's death at the age of 96, the monarch's priceless jewels will likely be given to members of the royal family, including Queen Consort Camilla and Kate Middleton.
The Queen had already given some of her jewels to her sons' wives: Camilla, Kate and Meghan. Kate, the new Princess of Wales, wears Princess Diana's engagement ring and she chose a pearl and diamond brooch given to her by the Queen for the Cathedral service at Westminster for the lying-in-state.
Royal historian Robert Lacey clarified in his book, Battle of Brothers: William and Harry – The Inside Story of a Family in Tumult, that the reason Queen Elizabeth had rejected Meghan's first choice was a reasonable one: because the emerald tiara was said to have been possibly Russian, meaning that it could have been ...
For the banquet, Camilla wore the Boucheron diamond tiara and paid tribute to the late Queen Elizabeth II with her necklace, made of fringed diamonds. Britain's Camilla, Queen Consort poses as she arrives for a state banquet at the presidential Bellevue Palace in Berlin, on March 29, 2023.
Meghan reportedly wanted to wear an emerald tiara, but the Queen had selected a diamond tiara that had been worn by her grandmother, Queen Mary, in 1932. According to a royal insider, Queen Elizabeth is said to have told Prince Harry that “Meghan cannot have whatever she wants.