Diamond Engagement Rings Specialist

It’s a wedding the whole world is waiting for with bated breath and now, there are contests being woven around this event. The latest in Hollywood is one in which five look alike rings are been given to winners of a contest. The sapphire and diamond engagement ring has become the most popular piece of jewellery in the world today and everyone from every corner of the globe would like to possess a ring that looks like that.

The reason the ring is so popular is perhaps because it has a history of a fairytale romance and wedding. The engagement ring was made for Diana and now, there’s another fairytale wedding that is about to happen. The ring was then valued at £28,000 but today, it is almost ten times the price. That ring, designed in 1981 saw so much happening – a young, shy bride and then all that followed. Kate Middleton is a much more aware bride and with that ring, she will be wished a lifetime of happiness.

The contest that the company BingoHollywood is conducting involves answering a few simple questions and who knows – anyone could get lucky. There will be five winners who will walk away with a beautiful piece of jewellery in a few days. All it takes are right answers to questions about Diana.

Does anyone know? Well, they do but they are not telling. So many years after Princess Diana’s engagement and her death, there are very few people who know how much that incredible sapphire and diamond ring is worth and they have been sworn to secrecy. The then Princess of Wales’s engagement ring was insured for its actual worth with an insurance firm but no one outside of those few people know for how much.

Ted Mission who is 80 and lives in New Zealand is one of them and he won’t tell. The engagement ring was insured years ago when he was a broker in Bain Dawes, one the leading insurance companies in London, underwritten by Lloyd’s. Today, he lives in New Zealand, in Maungaturoto.

The insurance firm he worked for has insured a lot of the Queen’s personal effects and once at Lloyd’s, when she had come to speak to the people in the underwriter’s firm, he actually met her. That was around forty years ago and he still remembers her asking how long he had worked for the company and if he had a family. One wonders just how much the sapphire and diamond engagement ring is worth today!

It’s true. There’s something about celebrities that make us want to know everything about them and an engagement is such a big part of people’s lives. We get a kind of vicarious pleasure when the media takes us into their personal lives – lives that maybe secretly we wish we had. And of course, the fact that their diamond rings are usually bigger and so much more expensive that we could ever hope to wear makes it just that much more enthralling.

Let’s take a look at some of the rings that probably made our eyes pop out of their sockets just looking at pictures! There was Paris Hilton’s 24 carat ring from her billionaire boyfriend though that did not lead to a wedding ring. And of course, Christina Aguilera’s 20 carat diamond engagement ring. More recently, there was Beyonce’s 18-carat ring. ( Gosh – how do they carry those rocks around?) Oh, let’s not forget the biggest one of them all – Elizabeth Taylor’s 30-carat diamond engagement ring – just one of her many!

Royalty has always been in the news for their jewellery. There was Princess Diana’s 18-carat ring and before that, Grace Kelly’s 12-carat ring.

It just goes to show that diamond engagement rings just have that certain something special to them. If we can’t have something that is huge, we’ll find someone who does and read all about it!