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The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester<\/p>\n
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The star of the show? The Queen\u2019s scintillating Van Cleef & Arpels serpent necklace \u2013 a piece that has long had a home in Camilla\u2019s jewellery<\/a> box and long been something of a mystery to royal watchers everywhere. Designed in the shape of a snake curled around the wearer\u2019s neck, the piece is adorned with diamonds and features<\/a> two rubies where the serpent\u2019s eyes would be. The snake is often considered to be a symbol of everlasting love \u2013 Queen Victoria<\/a>\u2019s engagement ring was crafted to look like a snake. A fitting piece of symbolism, perhaps, considering the turbulent love story of Camilla and King Charles. The provenance of the necklace remains unconfirmed, but The Royal Watcher<\/a> blog wonders whether it might have been a present from the then-Prince of Wales, a testament to the couple\u2019s enduring romance.<\/p>\n Queen Camilla made a speech as the Colonel-in-Chief The Rifles and Royal Colonel 4th Battalion The Ranger Regiment<\/p>\n WPA Pool\/Getty Images<\/p>\n Another twist in the tale? The discovery of a Fab\u00e9rge cigarette case, featuring an Art<\/a> Deco-style<\/a> diamond-encrusted snake biting the end of its tail. The piece was gifted to King Edward VII by his mistress, the socialite Alice Keppel, while he was still married to Queen Alexandra. The ouroboros design, like Camilla\u2019s snake necklace, symbolises enduring love. Thrillingly, history has somewhat repeated itself: Alice Keppel\u2019s great-granddaughter is none other than Queen Camilla, who was, of course, in a relationship with Prince Charles<\/a> when he was married to Princess Diana<\/a>. Indeed, rumour has it that Keppel\u2019s dalliance with King Edward made for quite the icebreaker when a young Camilla first met the future King, on a polo<\/a> field in the 70s. \u2018My great-grandmother was your great-great-grandfather\u2019s mistress,\u2019 she is said to have joked. \u2018So how about it?\u2019 Considering the pair are now married, ruling over roughly 2.6 billion people, she could have done worse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester WPA Pool\/Getty Images The star of the show? The Queen\u2019s scintillating Van…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75,47030,44,13647,139377],"class_list":{"0":"post-312477","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-jewellery","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-royals","15":"tag-the-queen-consort"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Image](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/2248158878.jpeg\"\/)
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