{"id":363764,"date":"2026-10-03T19:06:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T19:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/363764\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T19:06:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T19:06:14","slug":"queen-letizia-of-spains-engagement-ring-is-perfect-for-the-non-traditional-bride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/363764\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen Letizia of Spain\u2019s Engagement Ring Is Perfect for the Non-Traditional Bride"},"content":{"rendered":"

While an eternity band isn\u2019t often the usual selection for an engagement ring, it has been a choice for some other style icons in history. For instance, American royalty John F. Kennedy, Jr. proposed to Caroline Bessette-Kennedy<\/a> with a round-cut diamond and sapphire eternity band, which was modeled after his mother Jackie Kennedy Onassis\u2019s swimming ring. For someone with a more minimalist style like Bessette-Kennedy, this low-profile ring offers a modern and flexible take on the traditional engagement band.<\/p>\n

The Spanish royal\u2019s ring is less flashy than a style with a large center stone, but Queen Letizia\u2019s diamond-covered band still has a grand price tag. It is estimated<\/a> that the ring from Spanish jewelry brand Su\u00e1rez<\/a> cost over $30,000 at the time, likely due to the high quality of the natural diamond baguette stones.<\/p>\n

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Photo: Getty Images<\/p>\n

When Felipe and Letizia were married on May 22, 2004, the two tied the knot in a Catholic ceremony at the Almudena Cathedral in Madrid. The bride wore a sculptural high-neck gown by designer Manuel Pertegaz that was placed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the most expensive royal wedding dress<\/a> in history. Another momentous fact about the wedding? Letizia was the first non-aristocrat to marry a royal and eventually become queen in all of Spanish history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While an eternity band isn\u2019t often the usual selection for an engagement ring, it has been a choice…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,18145,122,124,123,4259,49607],"class_list":["post-363764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queen-letizia-of-spain","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-royals","tag-vogue-weddings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}