Royal Brooch To Be Sold At Auction

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed)
Nov 27th 2006 at 7:02PM

Prince Edward of Wales certainly knew how to show his love for Wallis Simpson. The man who gave up a kingdom for love, gave the object of his affection this amazing Cartier brooch with their initials W and E done is rubies and sapphires. The brooch is now for sale again at Bonhams in London on Dec. 7. The auction has an estimate of up to 35,000 pounds ($67,729), lower than the $95,333 it brought when it was first on the market in the 1980s. The brooch was purchased from Sotheby's in 1987 by the Daily Mail newspaper and was won in a Daily Mail poetry competition by Percy and Vera Brindley and auctioned by Bonhams in 2000.

[via Bloomberg]

Tags: auction, cartier, prince edward, rubies, sapphires, vintage jewelry, wallis simpson

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marcie valentine Nov 28th 2006 5:08AM

at least this king had some class. prince charles the cheater is giving the duchess of adultry, princess diana's old jewels!! time to disolve the monarchy in my opinion.