Prince William Engagement - Whence the Gold For the Wedding Bands 2011

Have you One of the most important items of dress on the big day must be the wedding band. Its purity being undoubtedly a factor in its being chosen as the material for royal wedding bands. Interestingly welsh gold has long been seen as several times more valuable that Australian or South African gold.

Gold has been located in Wales in Roman times maybe even before but it was only just over 200 years ago that commercial mining of this precious metal began. Since then, the last goldmine (in north Wales) closed down. In the days when the Queen Mother had her ring fashioned from welsh gold there was gold mining in Britain (Wales). The tradition started as we said in 1923 actually by the Queen Mother, then continued through the Queen and Prince Philip and other royals as previously stated too. Since then the British Royal Family have been wearing wedding rings made welsh gold.

It's been tradition since 1923. It's a practice Princess Margaret, Princess Anne, Prince Charles and Camilla have kept to. Probably from welsh gold is the answer. Where will the next set of royal wedding rings come from? Let's look at today: or shall we say, the near future.

But that's a matter of yesteryear. Since the late nineteenth century in fact. In terms of royal jewellery The Koh-i-Noor diamond once the largest known diamond in the world originally from India, has become part of the British Crown Jewels. Let's wait and see. But will it be the material of choice in future royal nuptials?