Prince William to propose to Kate Middleton? Harry already asked Chelsy Davy?

Prince William is reportedly planning to propose to girlfriend Kate Middleton in the next few weeks - and his younger brother Prince Harry is already said to have popped the question to Chelsy Davy.
According to the People newspaper, William is planning to use one of his mother Princess Diana’s favourite rings for the engagement and has already asked his uncle, Diana’s brother Earl Spencer for permission to do so.
A source told the newspaper: “William is sure his mother would have approved of Kate. So he approached his uncle to see what he thought of the idea.”
“Using one of Diana’s rings is the greatest symbol William can think of to show how important Kate is. It will also keep his mother’s memory to the fore on his big day. Assuming Kate accepts, it will be like a union of the two most important women in his life.”
The source added that while the couple are currently holidaying together on an exclusive island in the Seychelles, William is more likely to propose at the royal estate in Balmoral, Scotland: “Balmoral has special memories for them because it’s where they used to sneak off for discreet weekends when they were students at St Andrews.”
“It is where the romance started. William thought it would be the place with the most meaning to them.”
Meanwhile, Prince Harry is said to have proposed to Chelsy during a recent safari holiday in Botswana.A source told the Sunday Mirror that the couple pledged to marry when Chelsy has finished her postgraduate degree - and will hold off announcing the engagement until then: “Harry and Chelsy are serious about each other and are both keen to make more of a commitment.”
“Neither of them can imagine living without the other. It’s just a question of how and when it will happen.”
Chelsy, who was born in Zimbabwe, currently lives in South Africa but is thought to be enrol at the University of Leeds next month to study politics - and be closer to Harry.
The source, claiming to be a friend of the Prince, went on: “[Harry] has also come to realise that what he and Chelsy have is pretty special. It’s natural they would want to settle down.”
“[But] for now he does not want her to be a public figure and they both want time for their relationship to develop as normally as possible. It will be 18 months down the line before they go public about their engagement.”

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He brings her to an empty movie theater and the lights darken. Suddenly, there she is on the screen—black-and-white images of their courtship. And there he is, by her side in the dark, presenting a three-stone diamond ring.

The ad ran late one afternoon in July 2000 in a darkened room in Charterhouse Street. It was the day De Beers unveiled the three-stone ring known as the “Diamond Dream.”

The impact was far-reaching, extending to other categories (three-stone jewelry, sometimes referred to as PPF—past, present, future—now accounts for some 10 percent of all women’s diamond jewelry worldwide, according to the DPS) and to every continent.

Clearly a bridal product (it was initially an anniversary band but soon became an engagement ring alternative), and very much a “diamond as the hero” piece, it nonetheless had modesty written large. Like the woman in the ad, and the women in the “Steps” and “Hands” ads that followed, this new three-stone ring was as serious as it was lovely. Its beauty lay in trim and thoughtful lines—Audrey Hepburn rather than Liz Taylor—and in each ad, its presentation induced a quiet but profound reaction from a woman who played her cards close to the chest.
Madonna, Sharon Stone, Toni Braxton, Jennie Garth, and others received them in mid-proposal. Their celebrity helped expand the category—from anniversary band to engagement ring, but also from emotion driven to aspirational, modestly private to glaringly public.

In the process, a new three-stone guideline was born. With centers two or three times larger than the sides’ total weight, the ring was an engagement ring, and centers were often raised in such settings. Those differences lost the abbreviated diamond wall for a look that was almost a solitaire, with the sides as supporting cast, but it still worked.

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Worker Returns Package Of Diamonds & Engagement Rings Worth Over $260K

For every bad person there is a good person out there, after writing alot of stories of people stealing diamonds and engagement rings it is great to be able to write a story of a person that realy is a hero. Here it is.

A local jewelry store is thanking a man for turning in $266,000 worth of gold and silver rings he found.

Robert Lewis works at Kansas City International Airport. On Monday night, he was leaving work when he noticed a suspicious package.

"I was heading home and I saw this bag right in the middle of the road. Working at an airline, I recognized it was freight," Lewis told KMBC's Micheal Mahoney.

"Brinks" was printed on the bag, and it was filled with 40 pounds of jewelry.

"I saw all the rings -- engagement rings, wedding rings, just unattached stone, diamonds, everything," Lewis said.

He said he briefly thought about keeping the bag, but then decided to turn it over to police.
It's not clear whether the bag was accidentally left behind or if it was part of a bungled robbery.
"How the heck does a bag like this fall out of a Brinks vehicle? I guess I spoiled somebody's plans," Lewis said.

The Brinks security company refused to comment on the case.
Helzberg Diamonds retrieved the bag of jewelry and is promising to show the company's appreciation to Lewis.

"I talked with Mr. Lewis today. I thanked him for what he has done. I'm sure we'll come up with a nice way to thank him. We'll figure out something special for him," Helzberg CEO Marvin Beasley said.
"Today is Helzberg's lucky day," Lewis said.

Woman, 47, charged in theft of ring

As we reported here a few weeks ago that an engagement ring was stolen off a dead women’s hand, we are finally able to report the rest of the story.

A 47-year-old Licking woman, who was a nurse’s aide at Phelps County Regional Medical Center, has been charged with a felony count of receiving stolen property as a result of an engagement ring that turned up missing from the victim a fatal traffic accident.Pamela A. Chapman, of Licking, who was assisting in the hospital morgue on March 18, is out on $20,000 bond for the alleged theft of an engagement ring valued at $15,924.The arrest of Chapman ends a two-plus month investigation involving PCRMC Public Safety Officers, the Rolla Police Department, and officers of the Licking Police Department.

“I wish this alleged event had not happened here, but I understand things like this do occur,” said PCRMC Chief Executive Officer John Denbo. “Thanks to an extensive investigation by Officer (Hank) Harper, this is coming to an end instead of some unexplained occurrence. I’m glad we know what happened or at least what allegedly happened,” Denbo said from his office Thursday.Denbo credited the work of Harper, Rick Hanrahan, director of Public Safety at the hospital, the Rolla Police Department for bringing closure to the investigation.On March 18, John Long and his fiancee Meghan Calahan were involved in a fatal traffic accident on State Route B near St. James in which Calahan, 22, was killed.

Calahan’s body was transported to Phelps County Regional Medical Center where it was examined by Phelps County Coroner Larry Swinfard. Calahan was wearing several rings and jewelry, including a 14-carat diamond engagement ring, which Long had designed at Hannoush Jewelers. The jewelry was removed and secured together with a paper clip.The clip with the jewelry allegedly was handed to Chapman, who was assisting the nurse who then secured the rings to Calahan’s body. The body was then placed into a locked morgue at the hospital, according to the probable cause statement for Chapman’s arrest.Three days later, Swinfard was informed the engagement ring was missing, who then reported the missing ring to the Rolla Police Department.

On March 28, PCRMC Public Safety Officer Harper interviewed Chapman, who denied knowledge of the engagement ring, and the investigation had stalled.About two months later -- on May 24 -- Leanna Chapman, an employee at a Cabool hospital, was wearing an engagement ring at work. A fellow Cahool hospital employee, Jeri Foster, questioned Leanna Chapman about the origin of the ring and was allegedly told her aunt, Pamela Chapman, found the ring in an elevator at the PCRMC.Foster became suspicious and called the PCRMC Public Safety Office. Harper, Lt. Ken Nakanishi of the Rolla Police Department and an officer of the Licking Police Department went to Pamela Chapman’s home at 110 Sackett St. in Licking where they spoke to the woman.

The ring was retrieved by Leanna Chapman, who said she borrowed the ring from her aunt, Pamela Chapman, and upon inspection found the ring was identical to the missing one belonging to Calahan.Pamela Chapman, although interviewed about a missing ring by Harper shortly after Calahan’s ring was discovered missing in March, said she did not tell Harper about finding a ring because she believed the rings to be of different values.Subsequently, Long, Calahan’s fiance, filed a claim with State Farm for the missing ring and the claim was approved for $9,747.50. Photos of the ring were e-mailed to Long, who positively identified the ring as Calahan’s engagement ring.

Chapman, shortly after the ring was discovered in her possession, was fired from the hospital. She had been a PCRMC employee for nearly four years.“She was terminated on May 24,” Denbo said. “All of our employees go through background checks. There was nothing found (in her background check).”

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More Women Picking Out Their Engagement Ring

Just as we see from our great customers, this report just confirms what we see.



Once upon a time, when a man proposed, he gave a woman a shiny solitaire diamond engagement ring. It was the standard. It's probably what her friends had and she was eager to join the club.





Fast forward to 2007: It's now the norm for a woman to influence what her engagement ring will look like -- if not to pick it out herself, says Mary Moses Kinney, director of the Independent Jewelers Organization. The result is bigger stones, nontraditional settings and some rings that forgo the diamond altogether. "Size matters," says Millie Martini Bratten, editorial director of the Conde Nast Bridal Group. "People love a big sparkly ring, especially coming from the person they love most in the world."



Moses Kinney thinks the larger rocks are being driven by two things: Women aren't shy about asking for what they want, and, because couples are getting married a bit older, they typically have more money to spend. The older bride also has had more time to carve out her personal style. "Women want personality in their ring. They want to make an emotional statement with the ring.



They want it to reflect who they are," says Moses Kinney. The groom, Bratten says, if left to his own devices, would probably still go for a classic solitaire because that's what he thinks an engagement ring looks like. But he's rarely left to his own devices. Usually, she says, "He will take his fiancee to the store and let her point out shapes she likes -- the shape is the priority -- and settings. She'll drop hints whether she likes gold, platinum or white gold."



Read more http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/usworld/news-article.aspx?storyid=83512

More grooms-to-be are pointing and clicking to find their honeys the perfect wedding ring

Future dentist David Ung wore out a lot of shoe leather shopping for a diamond engagement ring for his fiancée, Ynhi Nguyen.


"I went from 47th St. to Chinatown," said Ung, 29, who visited more than 10 stores in a month. But when it came to actually buying the bling, he went online to jewelry Web site diamond.com.
Ung, who's studying at New York University College of Dentistry, plunked down $5,000 for a 1.15-carat, round, colorless diamond ring, even though he first saw it when it arrived in a box at his home.


"I love it, it's shiny, it's sparkling," said Nguyen, a 33-year-old accountant from Vancouver.
Ung loves it too - for a different reason. A comparable ring "would have been $7,000 to $8,000 in a store," he said.


For many men, there are few things more daunting than buying an engagement ring. Not only are they expected to fork over a huge sum - etiquette experts have long recommended spending two months of salary - assessing the quality and value of diamonds can be as angst-ridden as meeting the in-laws.


But jewelry Web sites such as diamond.com, ice.com, whiteflash.com, diamondsonfifth.com, mondera.com, ross-simons.com, abazias.com and industry leader bluenile.com are taking the guesswork out of the hunt, and offering a growing number of grooms a less expensive alternative to traditional and often intimidating stores.


Prices for diamond rings purchased online can be 20% to 40% less than comparable stones behind the glass shelves. The reason: jewelry Web sites, which have far lower expenses, will often take a much lower markup on their merchandise.


"A $1,000 diamond at Zales will be $650 at Blue Nile," said Ken Gassman, president of the Jewelry Industry Research Institute, an independent research firm. "Zales' profit margin is 50%," he said, while "Blue Nile's is 20%."


For Gabriel Weaver, a 29-year-old lawyer from Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, scoring what he considered a good price on a ring - $4,000 for a 1.1-carat, near colorless Asscher-cut rock - wasn't the only reason he bought from bluenile.com.


Weaver said the Web site had great information that helped him choose among Blue Nile's vast selection - 50,000 stones and 100 settings. The catalog ranges from a .23-carat diamond of medium clarity for $277 to a 12.23-carat piece of ice for $1.369 million.


Blue Nile and others are making jittery grooms more comfortable with 30-day return policies and certificates from independent diamond-grading labs backing up their diamonds. Place an order and the ring will arrive at your doorstep in three business days.


The sites demystify the buying process by detailing what's universally known as the four c's - cut, clarity, color and carat weight - that factor into each diamond's value. Knowing those attributes for any given stone makes it much easier to compare prices.


For now, online sales are still just a fraction of the diamond engagement ring business. But the numbers are growing along with online jewelry sales - the fastest-growing Web retail category overall.


Gassman estimates that, of the $6.2 billion worth of engagement rings sold last year, $500 million, or 8%, were bought online. Five years ago, Net sales accounted for only 1%. The average price of an engagement ring online or off was $3,200 last year, according to the Diamond Information Center.


Jewelry stores aren't going away any time soon, though many are hurting because of the Web. There will always be people who insist on actually seeing a stone and comparing it to others.
Buying a diamond is "a touch-me, feel-me kind of thing," insisted Harvey Nagin, president of the 47th St. Business Improvement District, which represents 3,000 Diamond District retailers and wholesalers. He added that wise shoppers will find 47th St. prices competitive with the Web.
If you choose to buy a diamond online, make sure you are buying from a reputable store. Read shoppers' reviews on comparison shopping sites such as shopzilla.com or shopping.com, said ice.com marketing chief Pinny Gniwisch.


Only shop at a retailer that has a liberal return policy and provides certification from the Gemological Institute of America or the American Gem Society.


And once you buy, have an independent appraiser grade your diamond, said gem expert Antoinette Matlins, author of "Diamonds." Given the investment, she said, "It is money well spent."


$500M - Value of engagement rings bought on jewelry Web sites in 2006$3,200 - Average price of an engagement ring bought in 2006 on or offline

The wedding’s off: so who keeps the ring?

It was to be their big, fat Greek wedding.


It turned out to be his big fat compensation after the ring ended up in a dustbin.
And a big fat, age-old question has been answered by a court: Who gets the engagement ring when an engagement is called off? The answer: him.


In early August 2005, Vicki Pappas and Andrew Vacopoulos were blissfully in love. The couple, in their late twenties, exchanged rings at their Sydney engagement party.


Just ten days later they were parting. The intended bride removed her A$15,500 (£6,000) ring from her finger and placed it on a coffee table in front of members of her family, telling her distraught fiancé: “The wedding is off. Here, take the ring, I don’t want it.”




Her jilted fiancé responded: “I do not want the ring. It is a gift for you. You can keep it.”
After about half an hour he left.


Some six weeks later Ms Pappas’s former fiancé called her at work, declaring his love for her and saying that he wanted her back. Unimpressed, she called her father and asked him to gather up and throw away all the gifts Mr Vacopoulos had given her – including her engagement ring.
Her father obliged, prompting an anguished e-mail to Ms Pappas from her ex-fiancé which said: “Your dad said that he tore up my photos and threw the ring in the garbage. Why is this hap-pening? I don’t want it to happen.”


Enraged by the disposal of the engagement ring, Mr Vacopoulos went to court, seeking orders that his intended bride repay the cost of the ring.


Couples everywhere might take notice of the magistrate’s finding: If an intended bride rejects her fiancé’s ring, she forfeits the right to claim the item as a gift. And much less the right to put it in the rubbish bin.


The magistrate’s decision was appealed in the New South Wales Supreme Court by Ms Pappas.
But, again, she lost.


In the dry legalese of Justice Rex Smart , he said yesterday: “Upon Vicki Pappas rejecting the gift, she became a bailee of that item, so long as she had it in her control. It is not open to a bailee to cause the item bailed to be thrown into the garbage bin. This is especially so where the item was valuable and no proper notice was given and but a short time had elapsed. Holding a small item such as an engagement ring is not a great chore.”


Justice Smart relied heavily on the legal precedents set down in a 1926 case, Cohen v Sellar, in which a court ruled that if a woman who had received a ring “in contemplation of marriage” later refused the conditions of the gift, then she must return it. That ruling also said that if a man refused to carry out his promise of marriage, he could not demand the return of an engagement ring.


The judge in the New South Wales case said that Ms Pappas had tried to avoid the impact of the 1926 principles by claiming that her former fiancé had conferred the ring upon her as an absolute gift.


But, he said, she had never accepted the gift.


Legally bound
In Britain, the return of an engagement ring cannot be legally enforced unless there was an agreement to do so, as sometimes happens if it is an heirloomMost US states presume the ring is a conditional gift and must be returned if the engagement is called off Irish law presumes that all engagement gifts are conditional on the marriage taking place.



If it doesn’t, the gifts must be returned, Canadian law says that whoever breaks off the engagement forfeits all claim to the ring South Africa classifies engagement rings as tokens of sincerity. If the couple part, the rings are returned