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What Princess Diana Didn't Know: The Spencer Tiara's True Origins

On July 29, 1981, Lady Diana Spencer walked down the aisle wearing a tiara that bore her family name. Not a loan from the Queen. Not a borrowed crown. It was, she believed, an ancient Spencer heirloom — passed down through centuries, carrying the weight of her bloodline into the House of Windsor. The choice felt deliberate. A quiet assertion of independence. The tiara became globally recognizable, a symbol of Spencer identity against Windsor authority. But Garrard & Co. archives tell a different story. Ledger entries from 1919 describe "existing stones reset into continuous frame." The tiara wasn't centuries old — it was a composite, assembled from fragments after the First World War, designed to look ancestral. Diana wore it at least seven times during her public life. And according to every available record, she never knew what it actually was. Why would a family construct an heirloom and present it as ancient? What does Diana's belief reveal about how we assign meaning to beauty? In this video, I trace the Spencer Tiara's true journey — from a London workshop to a museum case, examining what its diamonds witnessed but never explained. Subscribe so you don't miss anything interesting!