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A diamond necklace made by Cartier in the 1930s. It was a wedding gift to Elizabeth on her wedding to Prince Philip from the last Nizam of Hyderabad, Mir Osman Ali Khan, in 1947. The Nizam's entire gift set for the future Queen of the United Kingdom included a diamond tiara and matching necklace, whose design was based on English roses.
The Affair of the Diamond Necklace (French: Affaire du collier de la reine, "Affair of the Queen's Necklace") was an incident from 1784 to 1785 at the court of King Louis XVI of France that involved his wife, Queen Marie Antoinette. The Queen's reputation, already tarnished by gossip, was further sullied by the false accusation that she had ...
A 300-carat necklace, whose diamonds have been linked to a scandal involving the last French queen Marie Antoinette, sold Wednesday for nearly $5 million at a Sotheby's auction in Geneva.
An extremely rare diamond necklace with possible historical links to Marie Antoinette has been sold at auction for nearly $5 million. On Wednesday, Nov. 13, luxury auction house Sotheby's ...
23 August 1791. (1791-08-23) (aged 35) Jeanne de Valois-Saint-Rémy, self proclaimed " Comtesse de la Motte " (22 July 1756 [1] – 23 August 1791) was a French noblewoman, notorious adventuress and a thief; she was married to Nicholas de la Motte whose family's claim to nobility was dubious. [2] She herself was an impoverished descendant of ...
November 14, 2024 at 12:03 PM. [Reuters] A necklace thought to be linked to a scandal that prompted the downfall of the doomed French queen Marie Antoinette has been sold at auction for $4.81m (£ ...
RuneScape. RuneScape is a fantasy massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed and published by Jagex, released in January 2001. RuneScape was originally a browser game built with the Java programming language; it was largely replaced by a standalone C++ client in 2016.
September 25, 2024 at 8:43 AM. A Marie-Antoinette-linked Necklace to Be Sold Cecil Beaton. As they say, a piece of jewelry has the power to tell many stories. This particular diamond necklace ...