From his quiet room in Kensington Palace, surrounded by fading portraits and a lifetime of memories, Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, has reportedly broken a silence that lasted more than seven decades.
Now 89 and in fragile health, the Queen’s devoted cousin has revealed a long-guarded secret — a private wish of the late Queen Elizabeth II, sealed away in royal archives and accompanied by a mysterious pink diamond, said to be one of the rarest jewels ever to enter the Windsor vaults.
And the most astonishing part? That both the message and the diamond were intended for Catherine, Princess of Wales — a gesture of faith and legacy from Britain’s longest-reigning monarch to the woman destined to carry her image into the next century.