Princess Eugenie’s Unique Engagement Ring Was on Full Display at Recent Outing—Here’s Why It Reminds Us of Princess Diana’s

As a reminder, Princess Eugenie wed Jack Brooksbank at St. George’s Chapel in Windsor in October 2018. Her engagement ring—which she paired with a Welsh gold wedding band, a marital tradition for the royals—features a rare pink-orange padparadscha sapphire as its centerpiece with a diamond cluster bordering the stone.

Following their engagement, Eugenie’s husband Jack revealed: “I found a ring in a jewelers and then proposed to Eugenie without it and came back and we designed the diamonds around this padparadscha sapphire,” according to the BBC. He went on: “What’s amazing about it is that it changes colour from every different angle that you look at it, which is what I think of Eugenie.”

Of course, at the time, a lot of a parallels were drawn between Eugenie’s ring and the one worn by her mother, Sarah Ferguson, when she wed Prince Andrew, Eugenie’s dad, in 1986. (Fergie’s ring featured a similar shape and design, but had a red ruby as the central piece.) That said, it’s hard not to also see the overlap between Eugenie’s engagement ring and Princess Diana’s—now worn by Kate Middleton—given it also included a large sapphire at the center with a halo of diamonds surrounding it. (At the time, Diana famously went against tradition and selected it out of a catalog—much like Jack, who went to the store.)

We’ve certainly seen Eugenie’s ring on occasion over the years, but Cheltenham provided quite the close-up, delivering a sparkly pop of color we didn’t know we needed.

As for the cousin outing? With Jack and Zara’s husband, Mike Tindall, by their sides, it looked totally fun. Now, if you need us we’ll be sleuthing out Eugenie’s emerald and aquamarine earrings (surprisingly, those were Diana-like, too).