Queen Camilla’s Wimbledon Jewelry Put Family Front and Center

By Annie Davidson Watson | July 09, 2026

Queen Camilla attended the Wimbledon quarterfinals on July 8 in an icy blue Anna Valentine chiffon dress—the same one she’d worn to Royal Ascot three weeks earlier—but the jewelry she paired with it was more notable than the recycled outfit.

Camilla wore a custom gold pendant necklace featuring a ruby, her birthstone, surrounded by five engraved initials: L, F, G, L, E—for her grandchildren Lola, Freddy, Gus, Louis, and Eliza (all from her first marriage, to Andrew Parker Bowles). The queen—who was attending Wimbledon for the fourth consecutive year and sat alongside her sister, Annabel Elliot—layered the pendant necklace over a chunkier yellow gold chain. A pair of turquoise and diamond earrings that King Charles gave her in 2005, before their marriage, completed her jewelry look.

The engraved pendant has become one of Camilla’s most consistently worn pieces this year, appearing at a St. James’s Palace reception in February, a royal visit to Northern Ireland in May, a state visit to the Vatican, and now Wimbledon. Its maker has not been publicly identified, which is unusual for royal jewelry that attracts this level of attention, and only adds to the piece’s intimacy.

While it’s “perhaps the Queen’s most personal piece of jewelry,” as British society magazine Tatler has called it, this is neither a historic diamond nor a borrowed-from-the-vault jewel. It’s a custom keepsake, the kind of thing that anyone with grandchildren might commission.

It also lands at an interesting cultural moment. Royal jewelry watchers spent the past week parsing Kate Middleton’s $170 lapis earrings at Wimbledon and a friendship bracelet she wore in the Three Peaks Challenge that might have been handmade by her daughter, Charlotte. The throughline between both royals so far this summer is the same: Jewelry that generates the most conversation isn’t necessarily the most valuable, it’s the most personal.

Top: Queen Camilla on Day 10 of the 2026 Wimbledon Championships (photo: Andrew Matthews/PA Wire)

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