The necklace containing around 300 carats of diamonds was bought by an unidentified woman who put in her bid over the phone, ...
Sotheby's said this month that some of the diamonds in the piece may have come from a necklace that helped precipitate the ...
A 300-carat necklace, whose diamonds have been linked to a scandal involving the last French queen Marie Antoinette, sold ...
A diamond-studded necklace thought to be linked to a scandal that hastened the downfall of the doomed 18th century queen of ...
"The French public believed that the queen had accepted the necklace from the cardinal, and this blow to her already bad reputation greatly contributed to the Revolution." Queen Marie Antoinette ...
How the Affair of the Diamond Necklace changed history—and why 18th-century jewelry remains an eternal holy grail.
A diamond-studded necklace thought to be involved in a scandal that led to the eventual downfall of the last queen of France, ...
A subsequent trial found the queen blameless, yet did little to alleviate her growing notoriety for extravagance which helped fuel the French Revolution and Marie Antoinette's beheading.
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