if you were kate middleton...

[gina32]

... would you be pleased with your mother in laws engagement ring? i know i wouldnt!

[Zeuhl]

jno

exactly my point

<<the ring would have been hers, surely, Zeuhl? It was given to her. She could leave her possessions to anyone she liked. >>

did she leave it to her sons. Surely she wouldn't leave it to Charles as he might give it to C.

So what is the story?

Yes Joe 100 plus and just about something trivial.

Not important and intelligent like your << which footballers have names like rude body parts>> thread!

LOL
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[jno]

um, yeah, that's my response too - what's the story? He's offered her an herirloom, she's accepted. He hasn't offered gina32 anything, old or new, which was thoughtless, but there you are. I say good luck to them.

[shaneystar2]

By the time they are "our monarchs " I shall probably be six feet under :)

[jno]

true, if Charles lives as long as his gran Wills won't get there till 2050 or so. Of course gran had herself well preserved with gin; all Charles gets is organic biscuits, which may not have the same effect.

[Zeuhl]

Yes I think we're all agreed on the Good Luck to 'em bit.

Well as this is so trivial I'm off home to watch the football and see if I can spot any players with the word m i n g e in their name so I can add it to JoeLuke's important post graduate research project.

:-)
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[Prudie]

My daughter has asked for my engagement ring to her father even though we divorced in the most vitriolic fashion - each to his own though.
I was not fanatical about Diana but how anyone can knock her for what she had to endure - imagine getting married at that young and innocent age and then finding out your husband loved someone else all along, not surprising she was a bit unstable.
Also on rings Charles' to Camilla was one of the Queen Mother's. It's a Royal thing to do.

[follyfancier]

my sister was given her mother in law's engagement ring when she got engaged ,it was a tradition in the family and it has since been given to her son who married a few years ago,and will then go to his son etc.

[joeluke]

Zehul......footballers names thread is not mine if you read it properly

If my name was to the left of the OP then it would be my thread


Got that?

[Zeuhl]

But you contributed so in that sense it was "your thread"

Got that?
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[Sqad]

joeluke/zeuhl.......LOL

[joeluke]

So this is my thread too is it? Or is it yours? Or does it belong to any number of people who have posted on it?

It's gina32's

(That's her name inside the OP box by the way)

[bimbo123456]

Consider if you will a young man of 15 who has just lost his mother. The only thing which he specifically requested to inherit is the engagement ring. To pass this on to his fiancee is charming. Also it is a damn enormous sapphire. I wouldn't say no!!!

[bimbo123456]

Mother of future king...newsflash (a) she may not be able to have children (b) she may have daughters. So patronising to consider her just a breeding machine for the monarchy.

[mike11111]

To answer the OP, if I knew that the ring, apparently unique, was worth millions, if not tens of millions of pounds, I would be more than pleased, just in case the whole thing went tits up.

[masma]

No matter what anyone thought of Diana (even though most of us didn't know her) she was William and Harry's mother which makes any of her belongings special to them. Just as the few 'bits' I've got of my mum's are special to me. I wear my husbands great grandmothers wedding and engagement rings (made into one ring) and am proud to do so.

[AlBags]

... I'd be in bed already checking out the shopping list

[askyourgran]

How often are you proposed to by a Prince and offered a second hand ring worth £28,000?
It was a lovely gesture, and I think Prince William is very thoughtful to bring his late mother into the celebration. One in the eye for Camilla.

[karenmac60]

If I had a choice between my mother in law and her ring...... ;)

[ELVIS68]

I think it`s a good idea in this current economic climate to use an old ring rather than splash out on a new one

[craft1948]

Thanks Elvis :-)