The captivating emeralds she fell out of love with

THIS Art Deco-style bracelet was a wedding gift from Charles — one of two pieces in Diana’s personal collection containing real emeralds, a stone Diana didn’t often wear.

Fitted with 12-carat diamonds, alternating with oblong emerald stones, it came from Wartski, the same Mayfair jeweller that made Kate’s wedding band.

Diana wore the bracelet early on in the relationship, notably at this outing to London’s Barbican Centre in 1982.

Having stashed it at the bottom of her jewellery box for years, it would be over a decade before the unique bracelet saw the light of day again — for a gala dinner on her 36th (and last) birthday in 1997.

That night, she paired it with the only other emeralds she owned — a dazzling pair of earrings, comprising pear-shaped stones suspended on a diamond drop chain, which Charles had given to her on her 22nd birthday.

The modern-style earrings dated from the Twenties, and were made to match the Delhi Durbar Parure, a suite of Cambridge emeralds originally owned by Queen Mary.