Most met grisly deaths - murdered, betrayed, defeated. Calamity is said to have struck many a male royal who wore it. It passed through Mughal, Persian, Afghan and Sikh empires before ending up in the hands of Queen Victoria in the mid-19th century.Īlong the way, people came to believe it was cursed.
From there, the story goes, it spent centuries hidden inside a golden statue at a Hindu temple.
Legend has it the 105-carat diamond - whose name means "mountain of light" in Persian - was found on a bank of the holy Krishna River in southern India at least 800 years ago. LONDON - Of all the glittering British crown jewels, one will be conspicuously absent at King Charles III's coronation: the Kohinoor diamond. Camilla, the diamond in her coronation crown, but will modify Queen Mary's crown, using diamonds from Queen Elizabeth II's personal collection. The Kohinoor diamond, set in the Maltese Cross at the front of the crown made for Britain's late Queen Mother Elizabeth, is seen on her coffin at London's Westminster Hall.
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