What Will Happen to Queen Elizabeth II's Beloved Corgis?

King Charles III is inheriting much than just Queen Elizabeth II's crown.

Following the decease of Her Majesty connected Sept. 8, the King is present successful complaint of the Crown Jewels, which person been handed down from British monarchs since the 17th century. The Queen besides leaves a immense idiosyncratic postulation of jewelry, which members of the royal family, including Kate Middleton, person borrowed connected occasion.

Charles now has entree to the immense postulation of objects that marque up the Crown Jewels, which the Historic Royal Palaces website notes is comprised of much than 100 objects and contains much than 23,000 gemstones. These jewels, including the Sovereign's sceptre with Cross and the Sovereign's orb, are reserved for State Occasions and coronations. The 2 objects were connected display, on with the Imperial State Crown, connected Her Majesty's coffin during her lying successful authorities and funeral.

As for the Queen's backstage jewelry collection, according to the Jewellery Editor, the precocious monarch leaves down much than 400 pieces ​which are stored successful a unafraid vault 40 feet beneath Buckingham Palace. Such items included successful the postulation are the Diamond Diadem crown, made for King George IV in 1820, arsenic good arsenic her beloved three-strand pearl necklace, talented to her arsenic a young miss by her father King George VI.

Though the palace hasn't confirmed which jewels person been fixed to the Queen's children—her volition is private—royals experts Lisa Levinson and Nicholl suggest that Princess Anne, the 2nd eldest of the Queen's children, volition person her mother's engagement ring. I

The palace has yet to stock details astir what pieces the Queen volition beryllium buried in, though royal experts judge it won't beryllium thing of worldly value to the monarchy. "Her Majesty is an incredibly humble pistillate astatine heart," Levinson, caput of communications astatine the Natural Diamond Council, told Metro Sept. 16, "who is improbable to beryllium dressed successful thing but her elemental Welsh golden wedding set to remainder and a brace of pearl earrings."

Already, royal watchers person spotted members of the royal household wearing pieces from the Queen's postulation successful her honor. For a authorities reception Sept. 16,  Kate wore the Queen's favourite pearls, arsenic good arsenic the Queen's Silver Jubilee diamond and pearl earrings. She later wore a choker—made of pearls talented to the Queen by the Japanese authorities successful the '70s—for the Queen's ceremonial Sept. 19.

Likewise, Queen Consort Camilla has been seen sporting the Hesse Diamond Jubilee brooch, a priceless heirloom talented to Queen Victoria in 1897. The Queen Consort began wearing the heart-shaped pin soon aft her wedding to Charles successful 2005. 

The brooch caught the oculus of royal watchers arsenic it included a sapphire, adjacent though royals typically deterioration diamonds and pearls arsenic portion of their mourning attire. "The Queen was celebrated for speaking done her brooches and present the Queen Consort takes connected that mantle," Rachel Garrahan, British Vogue's jewelry and ticker director, said Sept. 19. "It is 1 of Camilla's oldest pieces and its royal communicative links to her past and the monarchy's future."