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should you turn to for engagement ring inspiration? Whether it’s choosing the perfect natural diamond to wear forever on your left ring finger or dreaming of an XXL engagement ring, weighing over 10 carats, we can take inspiration from celebrities who always wear diamond rings. breathtaking engagement.
The lifestyles of the rich and famous have always garnered immeasurable attention, setting trends and influencing our style choices. In 1477, Archduke Maximilian of Austria and Mary of Burgundy began the tradition of proposing with a diamond engagement ring. From royalty and Hollywood starlets to your favorite actors, musicians, and athletes, famous people are the greatest style setters of all time.
Stars like Beyoncé, Amal Clooney and more continue to draw inspiration from Grace Kelly’s emerald-cut diamond engagement ring, gifted by Prince Rainier III of Monaco. Elizabeth Taylor and Jennifer Lopez have had numerous suitors who got down on one knee to ask for their hand, allowing them to amass significant collections of engagement rings, much like Victoria Beckham who, during her 24 years of marriage to David Beckham, has accumulated at least 15 engagement rings to her name.
From 1477 to 2023, take a look at the most impressive celebrity natural diamond engagement rings of all time. Is your favorite ring not on the list? Leave us a suggestion on Instagram for us to think about!
Mary of Burgundy, 1477
Portrait of Duchess Marie of Burgundy (1457-1482), circa 1500. Artist: Reiser, Niklas (active from 1498 to 1512). (Getty Images)
Archduke Maximilian of Austria became engaged to Mary of Burgundy in 1477, proposing with a diamond engagement ring, before this tradition became the norm. This is believed to be the first marriage proposal using a diamond engagement ring. A letter written by Maximilian before his marriage proposal is said to have said: “At the engagement, Your Grace must have a ring set with a diamond and also a gold ring”. In a portrait painted by Niklas Reiser, Mary is shown wearing a solitaire on her right hand, which is often used to illustrate the significance of her engagement ring, although there is no certain proof that the ring shown in the painting is her engagement ring.
The diamond and sapphire engagement ring given in 1796 by Napoleon Bonaparte to Joséphine de Beauharnais exhibited in Fontainebleau on March 22, 2013. (Getty Images)
The style of the “you and me” engagement ring dates back to Empress Josephine, who started the fashion for natural diamonds. Napoleon Bonaparte proposed to his first wife in 1796 with a “you and me” engagement ring featuring two pear-shaped stones – a sapphire and a diamond – placed side by side to represent the meeting of the two lovers. This style of engagement ring has more recently been championed by the likes of Jackie Kennedy, Emily Ratajkowski and Megan Fox.
Joséphine passed her iconic engagement ring to her daughter and, for two centuries, the “you and me” ring remained in the Bonaparte family. In 2013, the ring was sold for nearly $950,000 by the French auction house Osenat during the “L’empire à Fontainebleau, les rendez-vous de l’histoire” sale.
Lucille Ball, 1940
Lucille Ball married Desi Arnaz in 1943, a year when the number of marriages was expected to reach a record 2,000,000, so public interest in engagement and wedding rings was very high . Lucille Ball wears the ring she chose herself as a bride-to-be in Hollywood
Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, at Buckingham Palace, London, shortly after announcing their engagement, July 1947. (Getty Images)
About five years before ascending the throne and becoming the longest-reigning British monarch in history, Queen Elizabeth II announced her engagement to Prince Phillip in 1947, when she was still just a child. a princess. On this occasion, the couple posed in front of Buckingham Palace, the Queen wearing the famous engagement ring, the central stone of which is a three-carat round diamond, accompanied by ten small paved diamonds, and some stones of which come from the tiara of marriage of Prince Phillip’s mother, Princess Alice of Battenberg.
Washington, DC: John F. Kennedy with his wife, Jacqueline, during a visit from Prince Rainier and Princess Grace.
In 1953, before being elected president, John F. Kennedy, then a member of Congress, proposed to Jacqueline Bouvier with a “you and me” engagement ring from jeweler Van Cleef & Arpels. The ring consisted of a 2.88 carat emerald cut natural diamond and a 2.84 carat emerald cut emerald on a ring of emeralds and baguette cut diamonds.
According to Vogue, her future father-in-law, Joseph Kennedy, chose the ring at the Fifth Avenue jeweler in New York with the help of Hélène Arpels, who knew Jackie. About ten years after the wedding, Jackie revisited the ring by replacing the baguette stones with a crown of marquise and round cut diamonds.
