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

A 300-carat necklace, whose diamonds have been linked to a scandal involving the last French queen Marie Antoinette, sold ...

The 300-carat necklace thought to be at the center of the infamous 'Affair of the Diamond Necklace' that contributed to the ...

The necklace, which has been worn at two British coronations, smashed auction house estimates at a jewelry sale in ...

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

Tobias Kormind, managing director of Europe’s largest online diamond jeweller 77 Diamonds, shared his thoughts on the jewellery's historic allure: "A scandalous link to Marie Antoinette and the ...

"There is obviously a niche in the market for historical jewels with fabulous provenances," Sotheby's jewelry specialist ...

Which is what happened to the jewel at the center of Marie Antoinette’s Affair of the Diamond Necklace, from which these diamonds were possibly sourced. The incident may forever—and somewhat ...

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 ...

Antoinette DelBel joined the WPXI/Channel 11 team as a reporter in May 2023. Before coming to Pittsburgh, Antoinette worked as an anchor, reporter and multimedia journalist at WTKR in Norfolk ...

After Napoleon, Marie Antoinette is probably the most famous French historical figure in Britain, even though she was originally Austrian and he was Corsican. At an early age, however, both left home ...