9 Nov, 2021 @ 14:30
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QUEENS OF BLING: Move over Kanye West, Spain and UK’s royal families’ jewellery put you in the shade

Kanye West Financials
File photo dated 9/2/2020 of Kanye West who is officially a billionaire, according to Forbes magazine.

WHEN it comes to bling, rapper Kanye West might feel a bit deflated when he realises that European royalty put him in the shade.

Famous for his ego – and purchases of expensive jewellery – he simply can’t compete with ‘old money’.

Kanye West Financials
BLINGED UP: Kanye West PICTURE:Cordon Press

A report by jewellerybox has revealed that three pieces of jewels owned by the Spanish royal family are amongst the most valuable royal jewellery in the world.

The Marichalar Meander Tiara most recently worn by the Princess Elena is valued at a cool €3.5m, with the Fleur de Lys Tiara worn by Queen Letizia coming in at €2m and The Prussian Diamond Tiara of Queen Sofia worth €2.3m.

Fleur De Lys Tiara Letiziz Official Portarait
Queen Letizia wearing the Fleur de Lys Tiara

Now, West is a wealthy man and could conceivably afford similar items, but one royal collection blows him out of the water.

The world’s four most expensive pieces of royal jewellery, costing a combined €179.3m are all owned by the British royal family.

The Diamonds Exhibition
Caroline de Guitaut holds the Cullinan Brooch at the Queens Gallery in Buckingham Palace, London. Picture: Cordon Press.

Top of the list is the Nizam of Hyderabad Necklace last worn by the Duchess of Cambridge, which is worth a staggering €78.6m.

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Catherine, The Duchess of Cambridge wearing the Nizam of Hyderabad necklace – © Stephen Lock / i-Images, 206/cordon press

And Queen Elizabeth is not one to miss out – the fabulous Cullinan III and IV brooch is valued at a cool €59.3 million.

Bbc Press Office Queen Wearing Cullinan 3 + 4
Queen Elizabeth wearing the Cullinan III and IV brooch. Picture: BBC press release

Now that’s bling!

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Dilip Kuner

Dilip Kuner is a NCTJ-trained journalist whose first job was on the Folkestone Herald as a trainee in 1988.
He worked up the ladder to be chief reporter and sub editor on the Hastings Observer and later news editor on the Bridlington Free Press.
At the time of the first Gulf War he started working for the Sunday Mirror, covering news stories as diverse as Mick Jagger’s wedding to Jerry Hall (a scoop gleaned at the bar at Heathrow Airport) to massive rent rises at the ‘feudal village’ of Princess Diana’s childhood home of Althorp Park.
In 1994 he decided to move to Spain with his girlfriend (now wife) and brought up three children here.
He initially worked in restaurants with his father, before rejoining the media world in 2013, working in the local press before becoming a copywriter for international firms including Accenture, as well as within a well-known local marketing agency.
He joined the Olive Press as a self-employed journalist during the pandemic lock-down, becoming news editor a few months later.
Since then he has overseen the news desk and production of all six print editions of the Olive Press and had stories published in UK national newspapers and appeared on Sky News.

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