Queen Elizabeth II's engagement ring was as unique as a monarch would expect. Bustle states that the long-reigning sovereign sported a diamond from the last Romanov Imperial couple. As such, it's not as though just anyone could copy the ring. Not so with Princess Diana's engagement ring. As Brides reports, the piece she selected from the crown jeweler Garrard was part of a catalog and anyone could have selected the now-world famous ring, a fact that didn't impress Diana's new royal in-laws, who all sported custom rings of their own.
Nevertheless, the jeweler would declare that the piece showed what "exquisite taste" the late Princess of Wales had. And just why the late Princess of Wales went with that particular design was likely for sentimental reasons, with The U.K. Sun reporting her mother had a similar ring. It's also been widely reported that the ring's design was inspired by a brooch Queen Victoria wore on her wedding day as her "something blue."
No matter the exact reason Diana decided the sapphire stunner was for her, there's another eyebrow-raising fact about the ring people are still talking about to this day.
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