While the Kohinoor diamond is renowned globally ... Initially, a consortium had plans to present the Jubilee Diamond to Queen Victoria to mark her Diamond Jubilee (60 years on the throne) in ...

But the diamond was deemed disappointingly “dull.” So it was cut again, to its present weight of 105.6 carats. Queen Victoria wore the Koh-i-Noor as a brooch but wrote to her daughter about ...

The diamond is set in the platinum ... It is believed that the Kohinoor was unearthed from the Golconda mines in southern India’s present-day Andhra Pradesh state during the Kaaktiya Dynasty ...

The Kohinoor diamond, claimed by India ... “Our aim throughout has been to present the history in a transparent, balanced and inclusive way, always informed by rigorous research,” they ...

LONDON — Of all the glittering British crown jewels, one will be conspicuously absent at King Charles III's coronation: the Kohinoor diamond. Legend has it the 105-carat diamond — whose name ...

The Koh-i-Noor – one of the world’s most famous ... The exhibit will explain the 105.6 carat diamond’s highly conflicted and colonial past, including how it came to be included in the ...

While the exact origin of the Kohinoor diamond is not clear, the general assessment of scholars is that it was mined in the Kollur Mine in present-day Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh during the ...

Following Queen Elizabeth II’s death last week, critics have renewed calls for the British government to return artifacts looted by the British Empire, among them the Kohinoor diamond – one of ...

Nader Shah named the diamond ‘Kohinoor,’ which means ‘Mountain ... but most expensive present was… World's fastest trains: Japan's much-famed Shinkansen is now facing tough competition ...