{"id":379188,"date":"2026-10-22T02:44:55","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T02:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/379188\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T02:44:55","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T02:44:55","slug":"the-story-behind-queen-camillas-welsh-guards-diamond-leek-brooch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/379188\/","title":{"rendered":"The Story Behind Queen Camilla’s Welsh Guards Diamond Leek Brooch"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tQueen Camilla<\/a> adorned her coat with a deeply symbolic brooch for her visit to Aberfan Memorial Garden on Wednesday in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales. The queen consort<\/a> wore the Welsh Guards Diamond Leek Brooch, which holds a particular history for the British royal family<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tQueen Camilla greets members of the public during their visit to Aberfan Memorial Garden to mark the 60th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster on Oct. 21, 2026 in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales.<\/p>\n

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\n\tBundled up in a coat, black gloves and toting an umbrella, Queen Camilla\u2019s latest sentimental jewelry piece<\/a> held dual meaning. The diamond piece, named for the country, was chosen to honor the victims of the Aberfan disaster on its 60th anniversary.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe leek is one of Wales\u2019 most recognizable national emblems, so the piece has a clear purpose beyond its decorative value,\u201d Justin Daughters, the managing director of London\u2019s antique jewelry specialists at Berganza, said in a statement provided to WWD.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tQueen Elizabeth II<\/a> attends a ceremony to mark her official birthday at Windsor Castle on June 13, 2020 in Windsor, England. <\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cThat is what makes jewelry like this so interesting: it can communicate something meaningful without needing to be elaborate or oversize.\u201d The brooch, and versions like the one Queen Camilla wore on Wednesday, has been sported by the likes of Kate Middleton, Queen Elizabeth II<\/a> and Princess Diana<\/a> in the past.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile each design was created for the particular recipient, the Welsh Guards Diamond Leek Brooch clearly holds conventional value for the British royal family<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tPrincess Diana<\/a> and Prince William at an engagement on St. David\u2019s Day on March 1, 1991 in Cardiff, Wales.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cThere is a wider royal tradition behind wearing leek brooches for engagements connected with Wales, and Camilla\u2019s version sits within that history while remaining distinct from those associated with Queen Elizabeth II and Diana, Princess of Wales,\u201d Daughters said. Princess Diana memorably wore her version of the brooch during a 1991 trip to Cardiff, Wales, while Queen Elizabeth II wore her iteration throughout her historic reign.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThese pieces show how a shared emblem can be express through different jewels, each acquiring its own associations through the person who wears it and the events at which it appears.\u201d The brooch, per Daughters, serves as a \u201creminder that the most interesting jewelry is not necessarily the piece with the largest stones or the highest value; sometimes its significance lies in what it represents and why it has been chosen for that particular moment.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tQueen Camilla greets members of the public during their visit to Aberfan Memorial Garden to mark the 60th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster on Oct. 21, 2026 in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGetty Images<\/p>\n

\n\tWednesday marked the 60th annviersary of the Aberfan disaster, a catastrophic collapse of a National Coal Board spoil tip on Oct. 21, 1966, in the small Welsh mining village of Aberfan. The collapse killed 144 people, including 116 children. It remains the worst mining-related disaster in British history. Queen Camilla, King Charles III and Prince William visited the Aberfan Memorial Garden to honor the victims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Queen Camilla adorned her coat with a deeply symbolic brooch for her visit to Aberfan Memorial Garden on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[1313,9,24,63,4260,1312,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-379188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-british-royal-family","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-princess-diana","tag-queen-elizabeth-ii","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379188","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=379188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}