“It was a tiara that I made for the princess, but it was very much based on a piece that I have called ‘The Golden Crown' — a band of leaves made from gold leather,” she tells PEOPLE in an ...

Shortly after, she commissioned the House of Garrard, an English fine-jewelry maison that has been operating since the 18th century, to make her a tiara that would match with her Brazilian jewels.

“I put it on my head, snapped a selfie, put it on Instagram and asked, ‘Should I make a tiara?’” she said recently from her London showroom. “The amount of replies I got was insane.

"It was so exciting and nerve-wracking," milliner Jess Collett tells PEOPLE of creating for the "confident" and "graceful" Princess of Wales In the world of millinery, designing a tiara for a ...

In the world of millinery, designing a tiara for a future Queen is a life-defining moment. That was the task at hand for Jess Collett, the British hatmaker who was chosen to create one-of-a-kind ...