Arriving at the Queen's annual Diplomatic
Reception in a chauffeur-driven Bentley, Kate was wearing,
appropriately, the dazzling diamond and pearl Cambridge Lover's Knot
tiara, once owned by her husband mother, Princess Diana. The Knot Tiara was given to Princess Diana as a wedding present in 1981 by the Queen.
In 1981 she gave it as a wedding present
to Prince William's mother, Diana, who wore it for the first time at the
state opening of parliament that November. But Buckingham Palace was unable to confirm
last night whether the tiara had reverted to the Queen on Diana's death
and had now been given to Kate, or whether it was just on loan for the
night.
The tiara has a strong French influence,
made to a new-classical design on 19 open work diamond arches and
enclosing an oriental pearl drop from a diamond lover's knot bow,
surrounded by single diamonds and upright oval pearl spikes.
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