The 10.38-carat gemstone, which carries an estimate of $3 million to $5 million, was owned by generations of European royalty ...

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Before her failed effort to flee Paris in 1791, Marie Antoinette handed a diamond to her loyal hairdresser. It's now ...

The diamond and turquoise tiara sold for 889,400 pounds, three times the estimate, at Bonhams’ London Jewels sale.

They come in hot pink. And red and orange. And a spectrum of greens. There is a watermelon variety, too, which is exactly ...

Bonhams said it was the first time the tiara had been on the market since it was bought by her husband Lord Waldorf Astor in ...

Just as many-faceted as the birthstones themselves, though, are the origins of their names. A great many of them came into ...

The papal inauguration once involved a crown that popes wore for more than 1,000 years. The papal tiara was last used by Pope Paul VI in 1963. This tiara, featuring pierced silver and three gold bands ...

Thanks to marriage, she was wealthy, and her husband gifted her many jewels, including in 1930, a turquoise and diamond tiara. The tiara has been in the Astor family ever since, but is now going on ...

A turquoise and diamond Cartier tiara belonging to Viscountess Nancy Astor will lead an upcoming jewelry sale at Bonhams in London, carrying an estimate of up to GBP 350,000 ($461,864). The tiara, ...