{"id":114806,"date":"2024-05-22T10:00:17","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T17:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=114806"},"modified":"2024-05-22T06:51:44","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T13:51:44","slug":"queen-letizias-16-diamond-engagement-ring-and-the-mystery-behind-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/queen-letizias-16-diamond-engagement-ring-and-the-mystery-behind-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen Letizia&#8217;s 16-diamond engagement ring and the mystery behind it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>King Felipe VI of Spain<\/strong> proposed the then-journalist<strong>\u00a0Letizia Ortiz<\/strong> in 2003, sparking a royal frenzy. This wasn&#8217;t just any proposal, as it came with their secret romance revealed to the world. Fast forward to the glamorous wedding on May 22, 2004<strong>, the whispers about an engagement ring keep circulating. Yes, t<\/strong><strong>here was also a 16-diamond engagement ring that seems to have vanished&#8230;\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-114809\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Queen-Letizia-diamond-ring.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Queen-Letizia-diamond-ring.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Queen-Letizia-diamond-ring-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Queen-Letizia-diamond-ring-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Queen-Letizia-diamond-ring-768x512.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The reason? Well, the glittering ring, designed with a modern twist featuring 16 baguette-cut diamonds, might just be too hot to handle. This dazzling accessory was crafted by the Spanish brand <strong>Su\u00e1rez Jewellery<\/strong> and valued at a whopping \u00a320,000. But here&#8217;s where the plot thickens: the ring&#8217;s disappearance could be involved with a scandal.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, the ring&#8217;s purchase was entangled with <strong>I\u00f1aki Urdangarin<\/strong>, King Felipe\u2019s brother-in-law, who\u2019s currently in prison. It&#8217;s whispered that he snagged the sparkly accessory with a credit card from the Noos Institute, which later became infamous for<strong> embezzling public funds<\/strong>. Who would&#8217;ve thought this exclusive piece could&#8217;ve been stained with fraudulent money in its purchase?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-114808\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Queen-Letizia-mystery-ring-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Queen-Letizia-mystery-ring-1.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Queen-Letizia-mystery-ring-1-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Queen-Letizia-mystery-ring-1-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Queen-Letizia-mystery-ring-1-768x512.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/>Since then, Queen Letizia has been spotted ringless, maybe due to the clouds of controversy behind the ring. Others hint at the Queen consort&#8217;s possible preference for swapping out traditional symbols for trendy dress jewelry. Whatever the reason, the mystery of this missing diamond piece just adds another layer of intrigue, leaving Spanish royal fans guessing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>King Felipe VI of Spain proposed the then-journalist\u00a0Letizia Ortiz in 2003, sparking a royal frenzy. This wasn&#8217;t just any proposal, as it came with their secret romance revealed to the world. Fast forward to the glamorous wedding on May 22, 2004, the whispers about an engagement ring keep circulating. Yes, there was also a 16-diamond [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3104,"featured_media":114810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,1795],"tags":[2193],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-114806","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-royal-family","9":"tag-queen-letizia"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114806"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=114806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}