{"id":421563,"date":"2026-04-28T11:56:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T11:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/421563\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T11:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T11:56:13","slug":"the-rich-history-behind-king-charless-pinky-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/421563\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rich History Behind King Charles\u2019s Pinky Ring"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As King Charles arrived in the United States today to begin his four-day State Visit<\/a>, photographers zoomed in on his left hand.<\/p>\n

They captured his favorite accessory: A pinky ring, also called a signet ring or a gentleman\u2019s ring. King Charles wears the piece of jewelry stacked with his wedding ring, on his left pinky.<\/p>\n

\"KingChip Somodevilla\/\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Charles\u2019s ring today. He stacks the pinky ring with his wedding band.<\/p>\n

The signet ring has been a staple of Charles\u2019s royal wardrobe, dating back to the 70s. As T&C\u2019s Leena Kim wrote<\/a>, pinky rings have a long royal history. \u201cDuring the Victorian era pinky rings became fashionable among British nobility thanks to Queen Victoria\u2019s sons, who took cues from the Germans and began stacking their wedding and signet rings on their left pinky, starting a long royal tradition<\/a> that has continued to this day,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n

For many decades, King Charles wore the same signet ring, which Queen Elizabeth gave him when he became Prince of Wales. That ring was engraved with a crown with feather, the heraldic badge of the Prince of Wales title, and the Prince of Wales motto, \u201cich dien,\u201d which translates to \u201cI serve.\u201d However, now that his son Prince William is now the Prince of Wales, King Charles appears to have switched out his signet ring for a different one.<\/p>\n

\"EpsomMax Mumby\/Indigo\/\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Charles in 2024.<\/p>\n

\"CharlesTim Graham\/\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Charles in 1993.<\/p>\n

Some online have speculated<\/a> that the King now wears his father Prince Philip\u2019s signet ring, which features a version of the Greek monarchy\u2019s coat of arms on the bezel. That ring was one that Philip inherited from his own father, Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark. However, the Palace has not commented on Charles\u2019s choice of jewelry.<\/p>\n

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Emily Burack (she\/her) is the Deputy Digital Editor for Town & Country, where she covers entertainment, celebrities, the royals, and a wide range of other topics. Before joining T&C, she was the deputy managing editor at Hey Alma, a Jewish culture site. Follow her @emburack on Instagram, Twitter, and other social media platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2 min read As King Charles arrived in the United States today to begin his four-day State Visit,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[184509,144978,1105,184508,1107,93,61,60,184510,1106,144979,184507,144977],"class_list":["post-421563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-collection-jewelry","tag-collection-royal-family-news","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-1f21673d-871f-4ea7-8294-5c3a90113a70","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-issyndicated-false","tag-locale-us","tag-read_time-2","tag-shorttitle-the-rich-history-behind-king-charless-pinky-ring","tag-subsection-heritage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}