The 300-carat necklace thought to be at the center of the infamous 'Affair of the Diamond Necklace' that contributed to the ...

The necklace, which has been worn at two British coronations, smashed auction house estimates at a jewelry sale in ...

A necklace thought to be linked to a scandal that prompted the downfall of the doomed French queen Marie Antoinette has been ...

Worn at Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation in 1953, the 300-carat diamond necklace sold Wednesday for more than twice its ...

Tobias Kormind, managing director of Europe’s largest online diamond jeweller 77 Diamonds, shared his thoughts on the ...

There’s a story that the six-year-old prodigy slipped on the polished floor and Antoine, who was the same age, ran to help him up and impulsively gave him ... in a stately ceremony in Vienna. She wore ...

A crocheter creates their iconic outfits after teaching themselves on YouTube - and spent 1,250 hours making a Marie Antoinette inspired gown. Jo Luttazi, 25, picked up the hobby through Girl ...

Under the pavements of Maida Vale, there is a basement flat unlike any other – two quite shabby small white rooms, full of ...

The necklace was broken up and the diamonds bought to London ... By the end of 1776, Marie Antoinette had a dress allowance of 150,000 livres, at a time when the price of an an average house ...

wearing “Marie Antoinette’s famous diamond necklace, or at least two ropes of it” at a magnificent ball. “The rest, according to history, was broken up before the French Revolution but I ...

Marie Antoinette is as renowned today for her life of luxury as she was when she reigned as the Queen of France over 200 years ago. But her unrestrained opulence marked a stark contrast between the ...