Kate Middleton wears her engagement ring in public for the first time since Christmas

‘None of it ever happened,’ he wrote. ‘I never gave Willy that ring because it wasn’t mine to give. He already had it. He’d asked for it after Mummy died, and I’d been more than happy to let it go.’

This was refuted by Princess Diana’s former butler, Paul Burrell. In an interview with the Daily Mirror, Burrell recalled visiting Kensington Palace with Diana’s sons after her death to sort through their mother’s jewellery collection.