On Tuesday, the Princess of Wales was photographed alongside her husband Prince William as they headed to Buckingham Palace to receive the Queen’s coffin. In the photos captured by Kate from the DailyMail, she was seen wearing all black with a simple necklace made up of three strands of pearls. The choice appeared to be a tribute to the late monarch, who was known to favor her own pearl three-strand necklace. According to People, while the queen had a number of pearl necklaces, her favorite was a three-strand pearl necklace she had made with graded pearls and a diamond clasp shortly after she ascended the throne. As for where the Queen’s love of pearls began, it is believed to have started early in the monarch’s life due to a tradition first started with her great-great-grandmother, Queen Victoria, who is reported to have given each of her daughters and the granddaughters a pearl every year on their birthdays to have a strand until they turn 18. Kate, 40, and Prince William, also 40, Arseiny Budrevich, founder of Budrevich Fine Jewelery Studio, says Queen Elizabeth loved pearls because they “represent the aristocratic virtues of liberality, magnificence and generosity”. “Pearls have been associated with class, elegance and sophistication since the Ptolemaic dynasty in ancient Egypt, where the royal family wore pearls to show their status,” she told Express. “This tradition was then passed down through the Holy Roman Empire to the French monarchs who brought it into vogue in the Middle Ages, where it then spread across Europe. That’s when the British Empire got the style.” Kate and Prince William joined King Charles, the Queen, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle and all the other senior royals at Buckingham Palace on Tuesday night to watch the Queen’s coffin arrive home her in London. The story continues The flag-draped coffin was carried by RAF Northolt along streets lined with well-wishers and passed through the palace gates through a sea of mourners. After the late monarch died at Balmoral Castle after a 70-year reign, her body was flown to Edinburgh, where it lay in state at St Giles’ Cathedral, before her coffin was flown south. No video was broadcast from Buckingham Palace Square as her children, grandchildren and their spouses received her coffin privately on the grand entrance steps
