How the Affair of the Diamond Necklace changed history—and why 18th-century jewelry remains an eternal holy grail.

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The piece was at the centre of a scandal in the 1780s known as the Diamond Necklace Affair in which a hard-up noblewoman ...

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

A subsequent trial found the queen blameless, yet did little to alleviate her growing notoriety for extravagance which helped ...

In 1456 her sentence was ruled null and void, elevating her to the status of French heroine -- and centuries later ... in ...

In 1456 her sentence was ruled null and void, elevating her to the status of French heroine -- and centuries later ... in ...