As the United Kingdom and the world bade farewell to Britain's longest reigning monarch Queen Elizabeth II on Monday, there were also some heartfelt personal moments among all the pomp and pageantry of the state funeral.
In a touching tribute, Catherine, the Princess of Wales, wore a pair of diamond and pearl earrings known as the Bahrain Pearl Earrings, which the late Queen had given her.
In 1947, Hakim of Bahrain Shaikh Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa presented the Queen, who was then Princess Elizabeth, seven Bahraini pearls as a wedding gift.
She turned two of the pearls into drop earrings. Each earring featured a large diamond stud, suspended with four smaller diamonds and three baguette diamonds, with the pearl at the bottom.
The Queen had worn the earrings on a 1951 Tour of Canada and later for one of her first official portraits, paired with the George IV State Diadem and the Nizam of Hyderabad Necklace.
While they were not prominently worn for a few decades, she notably wore her Bahrain Pearl Earrings again at the Festival of Remembrance in 2015. Throughout the years, she had frequently loaned the earrings to family members.
Now they are being worn by the Princess of Wales, she has been photographed with them at the Remembrance Sunday Service in 2016 and 2019, at Royal Ascot in 2017, attending church at Balmoral in 2018, at the Trooping the Colour in 2019, and at Prince Philip’s funeral last year.
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