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29 March 2024

10 of the world's costliest engagement rings

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By Staff

A person’s engagement and wedding is one of the primary highlights of their life. Finding the right spouse to spend your life with is probably the ultimate source of bliss. But finding the right engagement ring is quite important too – probably just second to finding the right person to get married to.

And while you and I might settle for a ring worth a few hundred or perhaps a few thousand dirhams, not so much for our celebrities or stars, for whom money doesn’t seem to be an issue.

Many a man has spent more than a small fortune to pop the question, and many a woman has said yes only under the sheer weight of the rock that adorns the proposal ring.

Graphic credit: FinancesOnline.com

Of course it’s the thought that counts, but it helps if that thought is embodied in a multi-million-dirham ring.

Here’s a list of the 10 most expensive engagement rings as compiled by FinancesOnline.com, a personal finance website.

You’ll be surprised to know that the “cheapest” ring (it’s a shame actually, to call it that…) in the list belongs to Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge. It’s only about half a million dirhams ($137,200).

While it’s the same ring that Princess Diana, Prince Williams’ mother, wore after agreeing to marry the Prince of Wales, some others on the list are the non-recycled ones.

The most expensive, on the other hand, is worth but Dh32.32 million, and was given to the beautiful Elizabeth Taylor by her twice-hubby Richard Burton. The ring was auctioned by Christie’s in December 2011, and was snapped by an unnamed Asian buyer.

Have a look at the complete list – it’s bound to depress you, we promise!

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