A picture of Princess Beatrice's wedding ring has been revealed

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Penny Goldstone
By Penny Goldstone
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Out of all the recent royal brides, there's no doubt Princess Beatrice has been the most unconventional so far.

She wore a borrowed vintage wedding dress, a tiara the Queen wore on her own wedding day, and broke the rules with her wedding ring.

How did she break the rules? Well you see it's traditional for royal brides to have a wedding band made with welsh gold, a custom which started in 1923 with the Queen Mother in 1923.

In fact, the Queen Mother’s wedding ring, the Queen’s, Princess Margaret’s, the Princess Royal’s and Princess Diana's were all made from the same nugget.

Since then, Prince Charles, Princess Anne, Princess Diana and the Duchess of Cornwall all used welsh gold for their wedding rings, and so have the younger generation of royals, including the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and most recently, Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank.

Princess Beatrice had a wedding ring made by the same British jeweller who created her engagement ring, Shaun Leane, who revealed a picture of the design, and it's gorgeous.

He said that after a consultation with the couple, he designed a platinum and diamond wedding band that was 'a fusion of Victorian and Art Deco designs'. It has a curved shape that makes it sit perfectly alongside her engagement ring.

He added that the band was 'filled with personal and sentimental signifiers for the couple and unique to them'.

In a previous statement, the designer announced, 'I am thrilled for the happy couple, it warms my heart to see two wonderful people unite in love as much as Edoardo and Beatrice do. I feel very honoured to have been a part of their journey and to have been involved in the very special moments of designing and creating the engagement ring and wedding ring. I wish them a lifetime of love and happiness together.'

Penny Goldstone
Penny Goldstone

Penny Goldstone is the Digital Fashion Editor at Marie Claire, covering everything from catwalk trends to royal fashion and the latest high street and Instagram must-haves.

Penny grew up in France and studied languages and law at the Sorbonne Nouvelle University in Paris before moving to the UK for her MA in multimedia journalism at Bournemouth University. She moved to the UK permanently and has never looked back (though she does go back regularly to stock up on cheese and wine).

Although she's always loved fashion - she used to create scrapbooks of her favourite trends and looks, including Sienna Miller and Kate Moss' boho phase - her first job was at MoneySavingExpert.com, sourcing the best deals for everything from restaurants to designer sales.

However she quit after two years to follow her true passion, fashion journalism, and after many years of internships and freelance stints at magazines including Red, Cosmopolitan, Stylist and Good Housekeeping, landed her dream job as the Digital Fashion Editor at Marie Claire UK.

Her favourite part of the job is discovering new brands and meeting designers, and travelling the world to attend events and fashion shows. Seeing her first Chanel runway IRL at Paris Fashion Week was a true pinch-me moment.

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