The Crown Jewels

The Crown Jewels
Title The Crown Jewels PDF eBook
Author Anna Keay
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2012
Genre Crown jewels
ISBN 9780500289822

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This text captures the magnificence of a collection of symbolic objects steeped in English history like no other: the crown jewels.

Koh-i-Noor

Koh-i-Noor
Title Koh-i-Noor PDF eBook
Author William Dalrymple
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Pages 307
Release 2017-09-12
Genre History
ISBN 1635570778

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From the internationally acclaimed and bestselling historians William Dalrymple and Anita Anand, the first comprehensive and authoritative history of the Koh-i-Noor diamond, arguably the most celebrated jewel in the world. On March 29, 1849, the ten-year-old leader of the Sikh kingdom of the Punjab was ushered into the magnificent Mirrored Hall at the center of the British fort in Lahore, India. There, in a formal Act of Submission, the frightened but dignified child handed over to the British East India Company swathes of the richest land in India and the single most valuable object in the subcontinent: the celebrated Koh-i-Noor diamond, otherwise known as the Mountain of Light. To celebrate the acquisition, the British East India Company commissioned a history of the diamond woven together from the gossip of the Delhi Bazaars. From that moment forward, the Koh-i-Noor became the most famous and mythological diamond in history, with thousands of people coming to see it at the 1851 Great Exhibition and still more thousands repeating the largely fictitious account of its passage through history. Using original eyewitness accounts and chronicles never before translated into English, Dalrymple and Anand trace the true history of the diamond and disperse the myths and fantastic tales that have long surrounded this awe-inspiring jewel. The resulting history of south and central Asia tells a true tale of greed, conquest, murder, torture, colonialism, and appropriation that shaped a continent and the Koh-i-Noor itself.

The Crown Diamonds

The Crown Diamonds
Title The Crown Diamonds PDF eBook
Author Daniel François Esprit Auber
Publisher
Pages 56
Release 1867
Genre Operas
ISBN

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A three-act romantic opera comique by the French composer Daniel Auber set in Portugal in 1777. The opera contains no apparent African American content or references.

Crown Jewels of Europe

Crown Jewels of Europe
Title Crown Jewels of Europe PDF eBook
Author Michel (Prince of Greece)
Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
Pages 152
Release 1983
Genre Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN

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THIS BOOK IS A CELEBRATION OF SOME OF THE WORLD'S MOST INTRIGUING AND PRECIOUS OBJECTS: THE CROWNS, SCEPTRES, ORBS, JEWELS AND EMBLEMS OF THE ROYAL FAMILIES OF EUROPE.

The Queen's Diamonds

The Queen's Diamonds
Title The Queen's Diamonds PDF eBook
Author Hugh Roberts
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2012
Genre Crown jewels
ISBN 9781905686384

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Published on the occasion of the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, this book tells the story of the royal inheritance of diamonds from the time of Queen Adelaide in the 1830s to Elizabeth II.

The Crown Diamond

The Crown Diamond
Title The Crown Diamond PDF eBook
Author Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher
Pages 16
Release 2010-01-01
Genre Private investigators
ISBN 9780887349942

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Holmes' pursuit of a brilliant, deadly jewel theif leads to a chilling confrontation between hunter and hunted! Not a pastiche, not a parody, not an homage, but a genuine Doyle stage script!

The Last Tiara

The Last Tiara
Title The Last Tiara PDF eBook
Author M.J. Rose
Publisher Blue Box Press
Pages 230
Release 2021-02-02
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1952457084

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From New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller M.J. Rose comes a provocative and moving story of a young female architect in post-World War II Manhattan, who stumbles upon a hidden treasure and begins a journey to discovering her mother’s life during the fall of the Romanovs. Sophia Moon had always been reticent about her life in Russia and when she dies, suspiciously, on a wintry New York evening, Isobelle despairs that her mother’s secrets have died with her. But while renovating the apartment they shared, Isobelle discovers something among her mother’s effects—a stunning silver tiara, stripped of its jewels. Isobelle’s research into the tiara’s provenance draws her closer to her mother’s past—including the story of what became of her father back in Russia, a man she has never known. The facts elude her until she meets a young jeweler, who wants to help her but is conflicted by his loyalty to the Midas Society, a covert international organization whose mission is to return lost and stolen antiques, jewels, and artwork to their original owners. Told in alternating points of view, the stories of the two young women unfurl as each struggles to find their way during two separate wars. In 1915, young Sofiya Petrovitch, favorite of the royal household and best friend of Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna, tends to wounded soldiers in a makeshift hospital within the grounds of the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg and finds the love of her life. In 1948 New York, Isobelle Moon works to break through the rampant sexism of the age as one of very few women working in a male-dominated profession and discovers far more about love and family than she ever hoped for. In M.J. Rose’s deftly constructed narrative, the secrets of Sofiya’s early life are revealed incrementally, even as Isobelle herself works to solve the mystery of the historic Romanov tiara (which is based on an actual Romanov artifact that is, to this day, still missing)—and how it is that her mother came to possess it. The two strands play off each other in finely-tuned counterpoint, building to a series of surprising and deeply satisfying revelations.