Catherine wears Diana’s pearl earrings at Remembrance service

Catherine wore the Collingwood Pearl Drop Earrings, which once belonged to Diana, Princess of Wales, as she attended the Remembrance Sunday service at the Cenotaph in London on November 8. She watched from a balcony with Queen Camilla as King Charles and Prince William laid wreaths below.

The Princess of Wales wore a black Catherine Walker coat with three poppies and an HMS Glasgow brooch. A wide-brimmed hat by Jane Taylor completed her outfit. Catherine observed the two-minute silence and the wreath-laying ceremony from the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office building, which overlooks the memorial.

The earrings are diamond-set pearl drops that reports identify as a gift to Diana from jeweller Collingwood before her 1981 wedding to the then Prince Charles. Diana wore them at public engagements over the years. Reports say the jewels later passed to Catherine, who has worn them on several occasions, including at her 40th-birthday portrait sitting and the Festival of Remembrance in 2024.

One account says Prince William gave the earrings to Catherine after they passed to him following Diana’s death in 1997. The sources do not provide an independently documented ownership...