Breaking News: The Most Romantic Royal Proposal Stories — and the Must-See Diamond Rings….Read More

Talk about a fairy-tale romance! Look back at the love stories of Britain’s royal couples and the “yes-please” rings at the heart of the proposals

About one year after news of their relationship surfaced, Princess Beatrice and Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi announced their engagement in September 2019. The property developer proposed to Beatrice during a trip to Italy earlier that month ahead of Misha Nonoo’s wedding, popping the question with a bespoke platinum and diamond ring by Shaun Leane.

The couple intended to wed in May 2020 but pushed back the plan after the pandemic began. In July, the palace announced that Beatrice and Edo quietly tied the knot in a “small private ceremony” at the Royal Chapel of All Saints at the Royal Lodge, where the princess grew up. Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip attended the nuptials, held under government safety guidelines.

Seven years after they got together, Jack Brooksbank got down on one knee during a vacation to Nicaragua in January 2018 and asked Princess Eugenie to marry him. In a nontraditional twist, the brand manager didn’t have a ring in his pocket — but he did have a dazzling pink sapphire in mind. During their BBC engagement interview, Jack explained that he “didn’t want to do anything until Eugenie had signed off on it.” The couple would design her ring together, surrounding the blush-colored padparadscha with diamonds. The sparkler is reminiscent of the ring Eugenie’s father Prince Andrew gave her mother Sarah Ferguson when they got engaged in 1986.

The lake was so beautiful. The light was just a special light I had never seen. I actually said, ‘This is an incredible moment,’ and then he popped the question, which was really surprising even though we have been together seven years,” Eugenie said of Jack’s romantic proposal.

“I was over the moon. [It was a] complete surprise. But it was the perfect moment, we couldn’t be happier,” she added.

The couple got married that October at St. George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle, tying the knot in a classic royal wedding with autumnal touches.

A little over a year after they met on a blind date, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle announced their engagement in November 2017. During their interview with the BBC, the former Suits star said that Harry proposed earlier that month during a “cozy night” at their Nottingham Cottage home while she was roasting a chicken. Five years later, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex would share even more about their engagement night in their Netflix docuseries Harry & Meghan.

“I wanted to do it earlier, because I had to ask permission from my grandmother [Queen Elizabeth],” Harry began. “I couldn’t do it outside of the U.K.”

“I did pop a bottle of champagne while she was greasing the chicken, and that kind of slightly gave the game away,” he joked. “She was like ‘You don’t drink champagne, what’s the occasion?’ I was like ‘I don’t know, just had it lying around, whatever.’ ”