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

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

Experts say some of the stones in the piece are a match with the original diamonds central to a royal scandal.

A diamond-studded necklace thought to be linked to a scandal that hastened the downfall of the doomed 18th century queen of ...

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

A diamond necklace that has been worn at two British coronations, and is thought to contain stones from the infamous necklace ...

A diamond necklace supposedly related to a scandal that precipitated the downfall of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France in the ...

Sotheby's will auction off an extraordinary piece of history: A 300-carat diamond necklace dating back to 1776, a piece so dazzling that it's been tied to the downfall of Marie Antoinette.

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 ...

A necklace with jewels linked to the most famous scandal of Marie Antoinette's tragic reign surpassed its estimate to sell ...

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 ...