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The story behind Marie Antoinette’s diamond jewellery - set to sell for millions this autumn

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The Queen’s Diamonds: The Incredible Fate of Marie Antoinette’s Jewels (publisher TBC)"Married to an Italian prince living in Austria, but stuck in Switzerland, I imagine she would have had nothing to do but write this incredibly detailed account.

It’s a list of relics from so many lost empires and kingdoms: from the French monarchy abolished by the revolution, to the Austrian Empire, to the Duchy of Parma [effectively destroyed in 1861 by Giuseppe Garibaldi when Italy was unified]." It is also this inventory that confirms the astonishing provenance of all these pieces.

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