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The modern round brilliant has 57 facets (polished faces), counting 33 on the crown (the top half), and 24 on the pavilion (the lower half). The girdle is the thin middle part. The function of the crown is to refract light into various colors, and the pavilion's function is to reflect light back through the top of the diamond. [40]
'Item, a Crown Imperiall of gould, set about the nether border with nyne pointed diamonds, and betwene every diamond a knot of pearl, set by five pearles in a knot; in the upper border eight rock-rubies and twenty round pearlees; the foure arches being set each of them with a table diamond, a table ruby, an emerald; and uppon two of the arches ...
The crown is decorated with about 2,800 diamonds, most notably the 105-carat (21.0 g) Koh-i-Noor in the middle of the front cross, which was acquired by the East India Company after the Anglo-Sikh Wars and presented to Queen Victoria in 1851, [2] and a 17-carat (3.4 g) Turkish diamond given to her in 1856 by Abdulmejid I, sultan of the Ottoman Empire, as a gesture of thanks for British support ...
The huge diamond is steeped in history and controversy over how it came to be in the possession of British royalty
The diamond is currently set in the Crown of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. There are multiple conflicting legends on the origin of the diamond. [9] However, in the words of the colonial administrator Theo Metcalfe, there is "very meagre and imperfect" evidence of the early history of the Koh-i-Noor before the 1740s. [10]
The Small Diamond Crown of Queen Victoria is a miniature imperial and state crown made at the request of Queen Victoria in 1870 to wear over her widow's cap following the death of her husband, Prince Albert. It was perhaps the crown most associated with the queen and is one of the Crown Jewels on public display in the Jewel House at the Tower ...
The huge diamond took pride of place at the front of Queen Mary’s crown for her coronation in 1911, but was replaced with a replica in 1937 when the original was moved to the Queen Mother’s ...
India is reported to have expressed concern that the Koh-i-noor would provide an unwelcome reminder of the British Empire.