On Monday, King Charles III noticed his first Commonwealth Day as the top of the voluntary union of 56 nations with a standard Westminster Abbey church service, joined by Queen Consort Camilla, the Prince and Princess of Wales, Princess Anne and her husband, Tim Laurence, together with Prince Edward and Sophie, who have been named the brand new Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh final week.
The theme for this 12 months’s Commonwealth Day was “Forging a Sustainable and Peaceable Future,” and in a press release, the palace defined the service’s targets. “Working in collaboration in direction of shared financial, environmental, social and democratic targets, the Service seeks to spotlight an unlimited neighborhood which spans each geographical area, faith and tradition, embracing the range of its inhabitants of two.5 billion folks, of which over 60 p.c are below 30 years previous,” it learn. The occasion additionally featured performances by an all-female choir from Cyprus, saxophonist Yolanda Brown, actors Roshani Abbey and Nuwan Hugh Perera, and Urukerereza, the Rwandan nationwide ballet.
For the ceremony, Kate wore a navy Erdem shirt with white floral embroidery, a peplum, and an identical ruffled skirt, pairing the look with one priceless household heirloom, the Prince of Wales feather pendant worn as a brooch. The centerpiece options the Prince of Wales crest, surrounded by diamonds, sapphires, and emeralds. She additionally wore a pair of diamond and sapphire earrings that used to belong to Princess Diana.
Kate first wore the pendant final September, including a dangling 15-carat cabochon emerald, throughout a go to with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa final November. Kate first wore the Prince of Wales pendant final First created in 1863, when the longer term Queen Alexandra married Queen Victoria’s son, the longer term King Edward VII, the brooch was later given to the Queen Mom.
It was lent to Diana all through the Eighties, and as a substitute of sporting it as a brooch, Princess Diana connected it to a diamond necklace and wore it all through the Eighties, most memorably with a pair of emerald earrings that Kate has additionally sported every now and then. The pendant was returned to Queen Elizabeth after her demise in 1997. Although Camilla selected to not be known as Princess of Wales, she did start sporting the pendant in 2006. On the time, the Every day Mail reported that the queen gave her the pendant at Charles’s request.
On Monday, Camilla wore a brilliant blue go well with and honored her late mother-in-law with a Russian diamond and sapphire brooch. Based on UK jewelers Steven Stone, the brooch, believed to have as soon as been owned by Empress Marie Feodorovna of Russia, is price about $680,000.
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