The necklace containing around 300 carats of diamonds was bought by an unidentified woman who put in her bid over the phone, ...

A 300-carat necklace, whose diamonds have been linked to a scandal involving the last French queen Marie Antoinette, sold ...

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Sotheby's said this month that some of the diamonds in the piece may have come from a necklace that helped precipitate the ...

The star of the auction was Marie Antoinette's Pearl ... Sotheby's called Wednesday's auction in Geneva "one of the most important royal jewellery collections ever to appear on the market".

Extravagant dresses floated across the stage and powdered wigs reached incredible heights, all while peasants starved and the monarchy gorged themselves. “Marie Antoinette,” created by ...

Marie Antoinette didn’t say let them eat cake As the story goes, when Queen Marie Antoinette heard that the French peasants were starving and didn’t have enough bread, she exclaimed “Let ...

Diamond Necklace Possibly Linked to Marie Antoinette's Demise up for Auction By Cecile Mantovani and Denis Balibouse GENEVA (Reuters) - A diamond-studded necklace thought to be involved in a ...

and is thought to contain stones from the infamous necklace at the heart of a Marie Antoinette scandal, sold for over 4.2 ...