As we discussed over the weekend, the Duchess of Sussex made an appearance at Trooping the Colour on Saturday for the Queen’s fake birthday. She wore navy Givenchy – what looked like a loose knee-length dress and a sort of caped coat with short sleeves. Once she took the coat off, we could see (barely) that the sleeves of the dress were white or cream. All in all, it wasn’t her most fashion-forward ensemble, but it really wasn’t meant to be. After all the crap she got for daring to show her collarbone in 2018, I think Meghan just wanted to be conservative and covered up this year. There was one notable thing about her ensemble and everyone commented on it: she wore a new ring, an eternity band, alongside her wedding band and engagement ring. People immediately yelled “push present!” But People got the real story:
Meghan Markle‘s stunning new ring caught the eye of many royal and fashion fans when Meghan debuted the new piece of jewelry at Trooping the Colour over the weekend. The eternity ring, which the new mom wore next to her wedding band and engagement ring, is an anniversary gift from husband Prince Harry, PEOPLE confirms.
The latest addition to Meghan’s jewelry collection was spotted by fans as she waved to the crowd on the ride to Buckingham Palace with Prince Harry, Kate Middleton and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall on Saturday.
Eternity rings are traditionally gifted following a milestone event, like the birth of a child or a wedding anniversary, and are typically covered in diamonds in an infinite loop around the band. Meghan isn’t the first royal to sport such a ring — Prince William gave Kate an eternity ring after the birth of their first child, Prince George.
That’s interesting that People Mag confirmed it was for her first wedding anniversary and NOT a “push present.” A lot of people think push presents are tacky, or maybe they just think the label of “push present” is tacky, and I agree about the label. It’s gross. But it’s not gross to mark a significant occasion with a gift of jewelry. I believe Harry gave her the eternity band for their anniversary (May 19th) and not for Archie’s birth. But I do wonder… did Harry get her something for Archie’s birth? I bet he did. And maybe we just haven’t seen it yet. My guess is a pendant necklace.
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I need to come up with a word for these gifts for the women who had C-Sections like me. Hmmm……….
I call it a “I just had my abdominal muscles sliced open and sewed back together” gift. Two C-sections here…
“Cut-you-open-to-pluck-out -baby, here’s hoping you heal fairly quickly” present?
“Pluck present”
Geez, LizB, you made me spit out my coffee. I’m totally LOLing here.
How about: are you effing kidding me, I pushed for 17 hours and had my abs sliced and you want me to get up and walk in several hours.
Push presents were not “In” when I had mine. And I told him I want one too. He made the grave mistake of saying that I didn’t push so I he didn’t get one. I had the last laugh on that one. 😉
@Seraphina – I just called it my birth present lol. Or just said, if someone said “that’s a pretty ring, where did you get it” that it was a gift from my husband.
C-sections are no joke and if anyone gave me a hard time over not “Deserving” something because I had one (two) I…cant even imagine my reaction.
@Becks1, I love my husband dearly but his humor can be off. He realized very quickly not to joke on what he will never experience.
@seraphina – my second C-section was really bad due to scar tissue, and my H almost passed out during it (thanks buddy! lol) so he knows not to say anything about it. Once in a while he’ll mention how hard it was FOR HIM and I’m like, ARE YOU KIDDING ME.
@Becks1, my husband was 9.5 pounds when born and his brother over ten. So when mine was born at over ten I gave him the stink eye!!!!
Mom who just had her fourth c-section two weeks ago here who felt like adding: ladies, we kick major ass. No matter how we birth our babies! 💪🏻
Lovely anniversary gift. For all that the Brits put Meghan through her first year she managed to stay above it all!
More like, the more racist press outlets. Most Brits that I know don’t care about the RF. The ones who do care and don’t like her didn’t put her through anything, they’re powerless. She has a life of luxury ahead of her with a man who loves her and a son who will be cousin to the king of England. Living well is the best revenge.
The funny thing is that despite being almost completely covered up, there was a piece (i think in People, too) saying that no one wears “short sleeves” for Trooping. No matter what, people are going to complain about her.
I thought Kate bought her own push present ring.
I worked in jewelry for many years and a lot of women chose and bought their own baby gift rings (I always refused to call it a push present).
I remember the same. Kate bought it herself.
As I recall the jeweler actually said that Kate came in and purchased it as a guard for her engagement ring which was a bit loose.
If she did, good for her. I see no problem with rewarding yourself for having a baby!
What do you expect. William gave her an engagement ring from a doomed marriage. He’s not the thoughtful type of man like Harry
Casey20 we really don’t know what kind of husband Harry is or will be. A ring from a doomed marriage, or was it a really thoughtful gesture William thought he might bestow upon his bride? I wouldn’t compare him to William at this point. Besides, he was pretty wild in the past…what makes you think he’s going to be different now. I’m not saying he isn’t, just that you can believe pictures and PR.
I honestly think William just gave it to Kate because he’s cheap. He’s never spent tons of money on her and this way he can both evoke his mom and not have to spend a dime.
Harry letting everyone know he’s in it for the long haul?
It’s that what the marriage suppose to symbolize?
Keep moving troll…try DM
I’m with you, Kaiser. I think he got her a pendant for Archie’s birth. The ring is nice. Delicate like many of her pieces.
I thought Kate bought her eternity band to mark George’s birth.
She’s got on new diamond/quartz earrings. Could be those?
It’s a nice ring in her tasteful style, but I chuckled when one of the first outlets (maybe Page Six?) referred to it as “bling”. Really, in the context of the RF, this is bling?
They probably had to blow up the picture and use a magnifying glass to see it. I’m surprised no one has analyzed the earrings.
My eyes are not working yet, lol, I can’t see any detail on the ring.
That a very sweet first anniversary gift. Well done Harry.
I agree. The eternity band I have was my grandfather’s gift to my grandmother for their 40th wedding anniversary. If that was Harry’s gift for their first anniversary, he’s going to have to come up with something truly spectacular for their 40th.
Liz, the traditional first anniversary gift should be paper, according to the etiquette experts, so Harry did way over that.
Agree to being grossed out by the concept and phrase “push present”. The “present” is the baby and, in my case, not needing to throw up every couple of hours.
I’ll never understand the point of giving people rings as presents… Give me something I can enjoy: a trip, a special experience, a painting, a really cool poster (even better), music – not a piece of metal for my finger.
(I do admire the sheer craftsmanship and aesthetic value of a good jewelry piece in itself, i.e. not as an adornment, not on actual people, but refuse to wear – or even accept – any, always did.
Yes – to each their own. Of course.)
Lol @ex-mel I’ll take a ring any day.. I’ll take a ring over a dishwasher, washing machine or vacuum cleaner any day…😁💍💍💍💍
For me, it’s flowers… They’re not a gift.. Flowers better be an accompaniment to the jewellery or there will be no dinner-cooking for a year.
ex-Mel, can’t I have it all? LOL.
I gave myself a fabulous yellow diamond (surrounded by bright white diamonds) ring for my middle finger left hand on my 50th bday and a wide diamond eternity band for my right hand ring finger after I had been hit on my bicycle while riding to work. (Age 53) Broken finger bones sticking out of my finger. (open fractures) Torn ligaments. Other injuries. Long recovery.
My jeweler wrote “Bicycle Amnesia Ring” on the receipt. I wear both rings under my bike gloves, still commuting via bike.
Never married, no kids. Love my jewels every moment. Someday when I’m gone another woman will be wearing them. That makes me smile.
You do you.
re blacktoypoodle: yaasss queen!!! loving your energy 😀 you are woman goals 😀
GIRL! I love this comment so much! Agree with CarrieB – Woman Goals right here! ^^^
Aw! thanks ladies!
The millennials at work love my rings (I let them try them on) and I tell them there is no law that says a woman can’t buy her own diamonds in any form she likes. You don’t have to wait for someone else to gift them. They look at me like I just told them the answer to some profound revelation about life. It’s really funny. “Toys!” I tell them. “Amuse yourself! Reward yourself!” They’re just shiny things.
My dad gave my mom a huge bunch of yellow roses (her fave) with all 5 births. I was really sad that my wasband didn’t when we had our two kids. I think flowers are just a sweet bit of appreciation and, honestly, a pretty common thing when someone is in the hospital. We talked about it after the first kid and he made some asshole comment as to why he didn’t and he didn’t do it for the second kid either. Could have been a bouquet from Trader Joe’s, I didn’t want elaborate.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/site-files-prod/FiftyFlowers/Image/Product/Yellow-King-Roses-Closeup-350_917459cb.jpg
I don’t know if this will translate but here are some yellow roses (from someone who also loves flowers!!) 🙂
I give Meghan all the passes for her outfit on Sunday. She had an overdue baby a month ago, and shocker, she’s not back to her pre-pregnancy size. If she felt more comfortable in a navy sack while the world watched and judged her appearance, I support that entirely.
I agree- HATE her outfit and girl can’t wear a hat, but i also think she has never had extra weight and was clearly uncomfortable. I think she did that trick people do trying to hide weight: dark color, and flowy/ boxy style.
She just had a baby so it was probably a lot.
God I HATE the term push present. It’s not even clever. Did some dude at a tabloid spit it out in a drunken stupor? Kinda sounds like it to me.
I just bought myself a beautiful ring to commemorate the beautiful/painful 12 weeks of residential psych care I participated in as a result of workplace trauma.
It’s a big cushion-cut blue topaz and every time I see it, I goose my inner woman power and it feels fabulous.
So yeah, never had a kid but I am in support of whatever ways people choose to mark big events, whether that’s creating a human (which is far more the point than the delivery method, imo) or re-creating MOI!!!
love you Celebitches
Maggi – I’m glad you are feeling better. Congratulations! Your ring is a perfect reminder for where you’ve been, where you’re going and that you are courageous and tremendous!! I speak from experience as I did similarly when I was about 1 year into a chronic, physically painful condition. 10 years later, it still reminds of where I’ve been, and that I’m stronger than I ever knew!
yeehaw CityGirl, thats the kind of story I love to hear
Can’t we just cancel the term, push present all together?
I said this in the last thread but I now wear the ring my mother received from my father after I was born (she gave it to me last year). My sister will receive hers next year. It does kind of look like an engagement ring with a nice little sapphire stone and little diamonds. But my dad has always been thoughtful this way, getting my mom nice jewelry to commemorate important anniversaries and such.
Before our first, I told my husband what a push present was and to NOT get me one. I was given the gift of my sweet son and being a sahm (which is what I wanted). He did get me a ring for our first wedding anniversary, which also happens to be when we found out we were having our first guy- so the ring has extra special meaning.
Motherhood agrees with Duchess Meghan. She beautifully radiates warmth and love. It seems that she has made Prince Harry a happy man and has his eternal love.
It looks like a silver band to me.
I can’t believe the women that think a birth must be vaginal or not count or something. That is pretty nuts to me. I’m a c-section mom and I don’t feel like I missed anything. If anything I would argue it could be worse. They cut threw muscle people!!
Having said all of that, I wish that argument wasn’t a thing. Can we all just agree both options are brutal and leave it at that? I can’t stand the term “push-present.”
She’s been chewing her fingernails..not so easy to be a royal eh ?
@Elaine Patterson if you have ever been around a young baby you would know that long fingernails are a no-no. The last thing you want is to scratch that delicate baby skin. Besides, Meghan has always kept her nails short.
Sweet sweet Harry. So thoughtful and loving.
Anyone knows where the emerald cut earrings come from?
They are a classic cut; you can buy classic pieces, like Meghan’s, from any good jeweller. I was gifted a similar pair for my 21st and I treasure them. I won’t say how much they cost because I know it was a lot lol – just be prepared to part with a couple years or so worth of mortgage payments, ha.
I’ve read in more than one place that Harry actually chose Diana’s sapphire ring when both he and William were allowed to take several pieces from Diana’s collection after her death. When William was going to propose Harry gave him the sapphire because he felt it should be on the throne someday. Extremely sweet of him
i disagree its not GROSS
some people want to commemorate their child’s mother in their part of creating and delivering their child…maybe get her a gift or something special (TO HER)
LOL yal be ready to cancel and trash anything lol
Yeah, I don’t think it’s gross either. Receiving/gifting jewellery for special occasions is beautiful and sentimental.