Letizia di Spagna and that ring from which she never separates

When after years the Queen Letizia returned to wear a ring, in Spain it was news. It was April 24, 2019 and the occasion was the lunch hosted at the palace for the Cervantes Prize. The sovereign, who usually had bare hands since she wore neither her engagement ring nor her wedding ring, put a contemporary design jewel on her left ring finger that no one knew how to place.

Where did it come from? Who had given it to him? Above all, who had designed it? From that day on, Letizia hardly ever took it off while the press continued to struggle over those questions that persisted in having no answers. Until a little less than a month later, the name and surname of this unknown artisan came out that she saw her career overturned overnight. Karen Hallam is the creator of the mystery ring which, look at the case, is called precisely Signature Ring. A magazine some time ago intercepted her asking if the name had always been that, given that in the spring of 2019 that jewel was not even in the catalog. “I don’t remember but I think so, because it has always been the ring that I like the most among those I make and I also think it is the most sold,” she said in that circumstance, leaving us the choice to believe her or not.

Of London origin, Karen Hallam has lived in Madrid for more than thirty years. After attending a course, he began to sell his creations when she was expecting her first child, starting from the flea markets and then moving on to the shops. She inaugurated her store in the central district of Madrid Chueca just in the period in which the ring made its first appearances but the two facts are not connected since she, how that piece came to Letizia, cannot explain it. .

To tell Karen Hallam that the Queen of Spain never got up Signature Ring a customer thought about it, showing her the photos that had appeared in the newspapers. The model made of silver with a gold bath cost 114 euros but with a few tens of euros less you could buy it in silver. Now, also given the visibility that the jewel has, the price has risen a bit: if you click on designer’s website we do not find it difficult to trace it: there is just the photo of Letizia to show us the way and the price range that goes from a minimum of 110 euros for silver to a maximum of 1100 euros for solid gold. It is handmade and therefore each piece is unique. It doesn’t have a particular meaning in its circular design, Karen Hallam said: it’s just a beautiful sculptural form, suitable for everyday life, that enhances the hand and pleases its clientele, since it has never taken it off. production since he thought of it in the early 2000s.

If the designer does not put too much feeling into her flagship product, the one who fills it with meaning is the same Letizia who wears it regardless of the occasion. It can be a gala evening, a state visit or an informal event: at her index (more often than on her ring finger) you can find what the Spanish newspapers have renamed her “talisman»Which is sometimes the only piece of jewelry she wears while at others it is mixed with the precious relics of the Bourbon family.

It seems that behind this attachment there is an affective question: it should in fact be the gift of the daughters. It is said that the little Leonor and Sofia they would have set aside the money to buy it and, once the piggy bank was broken, they might have sent someone to pick it up at the store. It doesn’t matter if this is true or not, it’s still a good story to tell even if it’s not confirmed. I certainly don’t mind that you turn this rumor to Letizia. She proves it every time we see that ring on her finger that she actually never separates from.

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