Alexa Chung Engagement Ring, the Haunted Tudor Table Cut

In Paris, getting ready for a fashion show, Alexa Chung heard the friend doing her hair announce: “Oh my god, I think your ring is haunted.” The Alexa Chung engagement ring is a Tudor with a table-cut diamond, and Tom Sturridge, now her fiancé, chose it.

Alexa Chung in a striped knit cardigan points at the camera with her engagement ring on her finger | Wedded Wonderland — Alexa Chung with her engagement ring on show in her own post of 28 October. Photo: Alexa Chung on Instagram

She confirmed the engagement in a More Or Less magazine interview on 23 October 2026, which Cover Media carried four days later. Why a Tudor? “Tom knows how much I adore vintage and antiques, and he got me a beautiful Tudor ring.”

On 28 October she posted photos on Instagram with a caption of her own: “Ummm here are some relatively similar looking sideways photos of me wearing grey.” MailOnline’s headline that day had her flashing the “haunted” ring.

The ring’s date, maker, metal and carat weight have not been made public. Neither has a wedding date.

Alexa Chung’s haunted ring story began in Paris

Then came the haunting, in Chung’s own telling, which Entertainment Now quoted.

“When I went to get my hair done in Paris, my lovely friend Alexandri, who was doing my hair getting ready for a fashion show…”

“He took it off my finger and started making wishes around it and blowing on it.”

And her answer to a possibly haunted ring? “So, I hope that my ring isn’t haunted. Or do I? Because that’s iconic.”

Alexa Chung is engaged to Tom Sturridge at last

The interview ended more than three years of ring-spotting. The couple went public in 2022, photographed kissing at Wimbledon.

Engagement rumours began in June 2023, when she was seen leaving a birthday party with a ring on her left hand, and returned in 2024 when she wore a ring at Paris Fashion Week. Neither sighting was ever confirmed.

Sturridge, star of Netflix’s The Sandman, was previously with Sienna Miller, a good friend of Chung’s.

How he proposed has not been reported; the proposals we keep coming back to will have to do.

Her Tudor ring echoes Anne Boleyn’s portraits

“My engagement ring is a Tudor,” Chung said. “It’s like a table-cut diamond.”

Her reference point is the National Portrait Gallery. There she looked at images of Anne Boleyn “and all the other people who perished at the hands of Henry VIII”, and noticed “a lot of them had these rings on”.

The portraits explain the look. They do not date the ring: “a Tudor” could mean one made between 1485 and 1603, or a later piece in the Tudor style, and Chung has not said which.

If the court connection appeals, our royal engagement rings round-up includes Queen Victoria’s serpent ring and Joséphine’s sapphire.

More celebrity rings with a story: our favourites from recently engaged celebrities, Miley Cyrus’s Golden Globes ring and the oval rings seen on celebrities.

A table-cut diamond glows instead of sparkling

A table cut is one of the oldest ways to cut a diamond. The cutter takes the top point off the crystal to leave a flat face, the table, and sometimes takes off the bottom point too.

The antique jeweller Berganza dates the cut to the 14th century and describes “a romantic soft glimmer that is characteristic of historic cuts”. Its few, simple facets give “a clearer view into the gemstone”.

Picture a glassy mirror on the finger rather than a brilliant’s flash.

It suits a woman who adores vintage and antiques.

It is also rare: most table cuts were later unset and recut, so any original that survives is, on the same page, “a remarkable survival”.

The psychic’s first tip is bad news for antiques

Not everyone treated the haunting as a joke. Cheat Sheet ran cleansing advice from celebrity psychic astrologer Inbaal Honigman, speaking on behalf of the jeweller Angelic Diamonds.

Her suggestions, offered as one psychic’s view: running water, about 10 minutes of sunlight on a window ledge, moonlight and incense smoke.

Antique jewellers would flag the first one. Foil-backed stones sit in closed-back settings, and Antique Jewellers is blunt: “Moisture is the primary threat,” since water trapped behind the stone can discolour the foil.

Chung’s setting has not been described.

The ring has its story, the wedding comes next

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As for the ghost? Alexandri has made his wishes. Chung is still deciding whether she wants it to stay.

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Key takeaways

Alexa Chung confirmed her engagement to actor Tom Sturridge in a More Or Less magazine interview dated 23 October 2026.
She calls the ring a Tudor with a table-cut diamond, and her friend Alexandri, doing her hair in Paris, declared it haunted.
A table cut is one of the earliest diamond cuts, with a flat top and a soft glimmer rather than sparkle.

Frequently asked questions

What engagement ring did Tom Sturridge give Alexa Chung?

Tom Sturridge gave Alexa Chung a ring she describes as a Tudor, set with a table-cut diamond. She told More Or Less magazine he chose it because he knows how much she adores vintage and antiques. Its date, maker, metal and carat weight have not been made public, so whether it is period or Tudor style is unknown.

Is Alexa Chung’s engagement ring haunted?

Nobody can prove it either way. In Paris, her friend Alexandri, who was doing her hair before a fashion show, said “Oh my god, I think your ring is haunted” and made wishes on it. Chung said she hopes it isn’t, then added: “Or do I? Because that’s iconic.”

What is a table-cut diamond?

A table-cut diamond is one of the oldest diamond cuts, first seen in the 14th century. The cutter removes the top point of the crystal to leave a flat face, the table. It gives a soft, glassy glimmer rather than a modern brilliant’s sparkle, and few original examples survive unrecut.

Is Alexa Chung engaged to Tom Sturridge?

Yes. Alexa Chung confirmed her engagement to actor Tom Sturridge in a More Or Less magazine interview dated 23 October 2026. Rumours had circulated since June 2023, when she was seen with a ring on her left hand, though that sighting was never confirmed. The couple first appeared publicly together at Wimbledon in 2022.

When is Alexa Chung’s wedding to Tom Sturridge?

No wedding date has been announced. Chung’s More Or Less interview covered the ring, and no venue or proposal story has been shared publicly. Any date reported elsewhere is speculation until Chung or Sturridge confirm it themselves. Neither has given a timeline, so for now the ring is the whole story.