The 23 Most Stunning Pieces of Jewelry Kate Middleton Has Received From the Royal Family

Kate wore a pair of diamond and pearl drop earrings to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II's birthday at the annual Trooping the Colour parade in June 2019. The pearls, which dangle from a string of diamonds, are reported to be a gift from the ruler of Bahrain for the Queen's wedding in 1947. Kate previously wore the diamond-encrusted pearls to church at Balmoral Castle in Scotland in August 2018.

Kate paired a pink Alexander McQueen coat dress with another pair of diamond and pearl drop earrings at the Queen's Garden Party at Buckingham Palace in May 2019. Princess Diana was spotted in the same pretty pearls in 1981, which are reported to be a gift from Collingwood Jewellers for her wedding to Prince Charles that year. Diana's teardrop pearls also dangled from Kate's ears at a state banquet at Buckingham Palace in October 2018.

Kate received the Royal Family Order of Queen Elizabeth II, a small diamond-framed painting of the queen hung from a yellow ribbon, in 2017. Kate was first photographed in the brooch at a state dinner at Buckingham Palace in October 2018.

Kate wore a shamrock brooch to celebrate St. Patrick's Day in Ireland in March 2019. This wasn't the first time Kate (or even a royal) wore the gold and emerald pin. The festive brooch was loaned to the royal family by the Irish Guards and has previously been worn by Queen Elizabeth and Princess Anne. Kate first wore the shamrock in 2011, and it has been pinned to her lapel during royal visits to the country since.

Kate turned to more of the queen mother's favorite diamonds when it came to the 100 Women in Hedge Funds gala in 2015, borrowing the sapphire and diamond fringed earrings that the queen mother wore on her 93rd birthday.

It was time for more diplomatic diamonds when Kate and William visited New Zealand in 2014. On the queen's first tour of the country in 1953-54, she was gifted with the platinum fern brooch by The Women of Auckland on Christmas Day and wore it before the trip was out. Kate wore it twice on her tour — for her arrival into the country and to a church service in Dunedin.

There was no mistaking the most famous ring in the world. In October 2010, William proposed to Kate with his mother's engagement ring, which featured a 12-carat sapphire surrounded by 14 diamonds and set in 18-karat white gold.

A pair of matching earrings weren't headline-grabbers but had also belonged to Princess Diana. William gave Kate a pair of his mother's sapphire and diamond earrings around the time of his and Kate's engagement and wedding, and his new bride had them customized as simple drops. She wore them for the first time at Wimbledon in 2011, and they have become a firm favorite ever since.

There's nothing like a wedding to provoke a cascade of royal diamonds. On her big day, Kate wore the Cartier Halo tiara, which is made up of 16 graduated scrolls set with 739 brilliant diamonds and 149 baton diamonds and was bought by King George VI for the queen mother. It was gifted to the queen on her 18th birthday, and her sister Margaret borrowed it for the coronation. It has also been worn by Princess Anne.

Like many of William's gifts of jewelry to Kate, the one he gave her to celebrate their third wedding anniversary had special links to his mother. Diana always wore a Cartier watch and gifted William with a specially engraved Cartier timepiece for one of his birthdays. In turn, William selected for Kate the Ballon Bleu de Cartier watch, which is set with a tiny sapphire — the perfect counterpoint to her engagement ring.

Later in the tour, Kate wore a pair of diamond earrings to a BAFTA event in LA. She has borrowed them for other events since, including the annual diplomatic reception at Buckingham Palace in 2013 and the Chinese State banquet in 2015.

Three months after her wedding, Kate was traveling with royal diamonds in her luggage on her first tour. For Canada Day in Ottawa, she wore the queen's maple-leaf brooch with two different outfits. The brooch was given to the queen mother by her husband before their first tour of Canada in 1939 and was first worn by the queen in 1959, as well as being lent to Camilla for her first tour of Canada in 2009.

Another of Kate's favorite pieces was the wedding gift of a charm bracelet from Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall. The chunky gold link bracelet is hung with a solid gold disc engraved on one side with Catherine's "C" and a coronet and on the other with Camilla's "C" and a crown. Kate has worn it to daytime engagements, Wimbledon, and Zara Phillips's wedding.

For a black-tie gala at the National Portrait Gallery in 2014, Kate selected some serious royal bling. The Nizam of Hyderabad necklace was gifted to the queen for her wedding — featuring 38 brilliant diamonds plus 13 emerald-cut diamonds and a pear-shaped drop, it has been worn by the queen for several official portraits.

New father-in-law Prince Charles presented Kate with a set of art deco white and yellow diamond jewelry as a wedding gift — comprising a bracelet, a pair of earrings, and a ring. She has worn them many times, together and separately, and they have become a favorite for most of her black-tie events and for state occasions on overseas tours.