Inauguration: Kelly Clarkson
I had originally blogged about this ring, once the property of JANE AUSTEN, because she handed it down to her niece CAROLINE AUSTEN, the younger sister-in-law of my Emma Austen Leigh.
Tonight – inauguration evening – I put an end to the story: Guess who PURCHASED this ring?
Singer Kelly Clarkson, pictured at the inaugural performance of My Country, ’tis of Thee.
JASNA NEWS (rec’d last Friday) mentions that Clarkson paid $243,000. A snafu, however: Austen’s ring has been designated ‘a national [UK] treasure’ – and it cannot be exported! “So Clarkson owns a ring she can wear only in Britain. Ms. Clarkson also collects first editions of Jane Austen’s novels.”
A gal with great taste…
Click on her photo to go to Huffington Post’s story on her performance at the Obama Inauguration.
Two Teens in the Time of Austen 
Hamilton at the Hammer | Two Teens in the Time of Austen said,
January 15, 2017 at 1:53 pm
[…] readers will recall the embargo the U.K. placed on Kelly Clarkson’s purchase (at auction) of Jane Austen’s ring. Will the U.S. be faced with anything similar (and not over just one […]