Earrings that marked new post start separation

visit to new IN JANUARY 1995 york’s Diana Lincoln made Centera 24-hour to present her friend, Harper’s Bazaar editor It may have liz Tilberis,withsleek midnightDiana didn’t been stint bluea a fashionon whistlestop Catherinestyle. award. Wearingtrip, Walker buta gown, her hair slicked back in a ‘duckbill’ do, she finished her new look with striking sapphire and diamond drop earrings. Their provenance is unknown, but they’re thought to have been a gift from a Spencer family member after her separation from Charles. Both sapphires are surrounded by diamond ‘petals’, with a single diamond on the chain, made from pink ‘angel skin’ coral, in between. The stones are ‘ cabochons’, meaning they have been polished but not faceted, giving a softer, less reflective finish. Diana liked to wear them with black, the blue stones summer of 1995 which truly`emphasised— whenas she she the did persuadedbeautyin theof opera singer Luciano Pavarotti to sing at a fundraising concert in Cardiff for a hospice charity. She also chose to wear them for a Vogue cover shoot to mark her 33rd birthday. relaxed and confident, Diana positively beamed out of the 1994 cover in a powerful portrait taken by Patrick Demarchelier, her favourite photographer.