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

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

Marie Antoinette, the titular main character and the play’s namesake was an Austrian-born royal married to King Louis XVI of France. Most famously known for her lavish lifestyle and disregard for her ...

The antique necklace, made of 300-carat diamonds from India's Golconda mines is set to go under the hammer at Sotheby's ...

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Crafted circa 1776 and having spent time on the necks of British aristocracy, the 300-carat dazzler is now set to be ...

Upon her arrival in France, Maria assumed the Gallic version of her name: Marie Antoinette. When his grandfather Louis XV died in 1774, Louis XVI ascended the throne, making Marie Antoinette the Queen ...

The house tried to convince the new King Louis XVI to purchase the necklace as a gift for Marie Antoinette, who declined. So the jeweller enlisted the courtier Jeanne de Valois-Saint-Rémy to ...

Even when he played Louis XVI in Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette, the most striking thing about seeing him in his cousin’s ...

Anti-clerical radicals attacked the facade, removing biblical statues and decapitating them in the cathedral's square, in ...