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| Zara Phillips Tindall attends the Magic Millions Polo Event in January (Jason O'Brien/Getty Images) |
Zara Phillips Tindall, granddaughter of Queen Elizabeth II, is best known for her equestrian achievements, but
in a recent interview with
Town and Country, she talked about her growing love of jewelry.
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| Zara's engagement ring (Tim Ireland/AFP/Getty Images) |
Zara's fascination with jewelry began in earnest when Mike Tindall proposed in 2010. "I didn’t appreciate jewellery until I got a bit older and started going to events," she explains. "I never wore rings. My engagement ring was my first. Mike found it – I hinted what I liked, but he did it all himself."
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| Zara wears rings from her jewelry collection with her engagement ring at Royal Ascot in 2015 (Chris Jackson/Getty Images) |
Now, Zara has her own line of jewelry, the Zara Phillips Collection, in collaboration with Australian jewelry designer John Calleija. (
We covered the collection extensively here when it launched in June 2015.) She explains that she wanted the collection, which is equestrian-inspired, to be both subtle and wearable: "I felt strongly that each piece had to be wearable from morning to night. I’m sure John would like to go all out and have a horse galloping across your hand, so sometimes I have to rein him in." No pun intended?
Okay, magpies: tell me about your first ring!
