Princess of Wales' New Earrings: Ralph Lauren Price, Where to Buy

The new piece was the jacket, not the earrings. At the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow on 1 August 2026, the Princess of Wales wore a Ralph Lauren Collection ‘Camden’ double-breasted cashmere jacket in racing green — and it is the jacket that British coverage described as new. The earrings were not Ralph Lauren at all.

That matters if you are shopping, because the price most widely attached to the earrings — £450 — buys a component rather than a wearable pair.

Are the Princess of Wales’ new earrings by Ralph Lauren?

No. The Ralph Lauren item in that outfit is the cashmere jacket. The pearl element in her earrings is by Annoushka, the British fine jeweller, and the pieces are sold on annoushka.com rather than by Ralph Lauren.

The confusion is easy to trace. Ralph Lauren was the newsworthy brand that day because the jacket was a new addition, and “new Ralph Lauren” and “new earrings” have travelled together ever since. They describe two different items.

What did the Princess of Wales wear at the Commonwealth Games?

A green and white outfit at the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome on 1 August 2026, watching track cycling with the Prince of Wales and their three children. Contemporary reports name the Ralph Lauren ‘Camden’ cashmere jacket in racing green, a Breton-striped knit by La Ligne, a Christopher Kane skirt, an Anya Hindmarch tote and nude slingback pumps.

Reports also place a fine gold necklace in the outfit — one outlet identifies a three-star strand by Daniella Draper and reads it as a reference to her three children, and reads the pearls as a nod to Queen Elizabeth II. Those are that outlet’s interpretations rather than anything the Palace said, and they are reported here as such.

The jewellery is where reports part company, which is the next question.

Why do reports disagree about which earrings she wore?

Because Annoushka’s earrings come apart, and different writers named different halves. One outlet identified the earrings as Annoushka’s Favourites Pearl Earrings. Another described diamond hoops by Kiki McDonough carrying an Annoushka pearl drop.

Both descriptions are of the same shape: a hoop with a pearl hanging from it. Annoushka’s Favourites earrings are exactly that — its diamond Eclipse hoops with detachable pearl drops — so a writer looking at a photograph can reasonably describe the pearl as Annoushka and attribute the hoop to whoever they believe made it. Neither account cites a confirmation from the Palace or from either jeweller, and no first-party statement was found, so this page does not pick a winner.

For a shopper the disagreement matters less than it looks. Whichever hoops those are, the pearl drops are the part that is identifiable and orderable, and the hoops are a choice you make yourself.

What does the £450 price actually buy?

A pair of pearl drops, and nothing to hang them from. Annoushka’s 18ct gold Baroque Pearl Earring Drops are £450, and its own product page tells you what to do with them: style them on a pair of diamond hoops. The drops are a component in an interchangeable system, not a finished earring.

That is the single most useful thing to know before ordering. If you buy the £450 drops expecting the earrings from the photographs, you will receive two pearls with fittings and no hoops.

How much do the earrings cost, and where can you buy them?

Direct from Annoushka’s UK site, and the honest answer is a range. Bought as a finished pair, the Favourites Pearl Earrings — the diamond Eclipse hoops with the pearl drops already on them — are £1,550 in 18ct yellow gold with brown diamonds. Built from parts, the drops are £450 and the hoops are whatever you choose: Annoushka’s UK hoop listing runs from £350 for a 14ct gold small hoop to £50,100 for a diamond pair.

The drops come in three finishes on the UK site, all at £450: 18ct yellow gold, 18ct white gold, and a white gold version with a grey pearl. Ready-made pairs start lower than the Favourites — the cheapest pearl pair on the UK listing is £595 — so building from parts is not automatically the cheaper route.

Our Annoushka earring price builder pairs any hoop with any drop and gives the total, and flags when a ready-made pair costs less than the two parts bought separately. Delivery and returns are free on Annoushka’s UK online orders, per its own site.

There is one neat coincidence worth knowing before you decide. Annoushka’s Eclipse Fine Hoop Earrings are £1,100 and the baroque pearl drops are £450, so building that combination yourself comes to £1,550 — exactly what the ready-made Favourites pair costs. Buying the parts separately gets you interchangeability, not a discount.

One practical tip for ordering, taken from how Annoushka names things: a product whose name ends in “Drops” is a component, and a product whose name ends in “Earrings” is a finished pair. “Pearl Hook Drop Earrings” contains the word drop and is a complete pair on its own hooks; “Baroque Pearl Earring Drops” is not. The last word of the product name is the thing to read.

How much is the Ralph Lauren jacket?

British coverage puts the ‘Camden’ cashmere jacket at £3,100, and we could not confirm that with Ralph Lauren. Its website returned an access-denied response to every attempt made here, including its home page, so there is no first-party price or stock status on this page.

What can be said is that the published figures differ by region rather than contradicting each other: £3,100 in British coverage, €4,000 in a European report and $3,790 on a United States listing. Those are three regional prices for one jacket, not three guesses at the same one.

This page deliberately does not link a “buy it here” button for the jacket. We could not load the product page, which means we could not check the price, the colour, the remaining sizes or whether it is still listed at all — and a shopping link that none of those things stand behind is worth less than the sentence you are reading. Ralph Lauren Collection is sold through the brand’s own site and through department stores; if you want it, start there and expect the price to be the regional one, not the dollar figure that circulates in US coverage.

Why do the prices quoted for the same item differ so much?

Partly currency, partly the difference between a listing and a product page. The regional spread above is ordinary retail practice. The second reason is less obvious and cost us a wrong number before we caught it.

On the day these prices were captured, Annoushka’s own category listing advertised 3 products at a price its own product pages contradicted — the Favourites pearl earrings appeared at £1,445 on the listing and £1,550 on the page. A round-up assembled from listing pages will therefore carry prices no customer is charged. Everything here is read from the page you would actually buy from.

What else was in the outfit?

Not everything in it is still buyable, and not everything has a confirmed price. The Christopher Kane skirt appeared on a US retailer at a reduced price rather than at full retail, the La Ligne knit was a re-wear rather than a new purchase, and the shoes were named without a price in the coverage we read.

That is normal for royal-outfit shopping guides and it is worth saying plainly: the reliable, checkable, still-orderable part of this outfit is the jewellery, which is why it takes up most of this page.