Eugenie’s ring is a rare sapphire and a nod to the Duchess of York
The princess and Jack Brooksbank will marry in Windsor in the autumn.
Princess Eugenie’s engagement ring contains the rarest of all sapphires – and is perhaps a tribute to her mother.
Eugenie, who is to wed long-term boyfriend Jack Brooksbank, showed off the ring at Buckingham Palace in official photographs marking their forthcoming wedding.
But while the duchess’s central stone was a red ruby, Eugenie’s is a pink sapphire.
According to the Natural Sapphire Company: “Nothing brings to mind blooming flowers like padparadscha sapphires.
“Named after the colour of a Lotus blossom, the pinkish orange glow of these stones are hypnotising.”
Eugenie is close to her mother. The duchess split from the Duke of York in 1992 and they divorced in 1996, but remained good friends, prompting speculation they might one day remarry.
In 1986, Andrew gave Sarah Ferguson, as she was then known, the ring when he proposed, and chose the Burmese ruby to match her red hair.
