It passed through Mughal, Persian, Afghan and Sikh empires before ending up in the hands of Queen Victoria in ... II wearing the diamond). That's because the Kohinoor has become a focus of anti ...

The Kohinoor diamond is now part of the crown worn by ... to avoid more public outcry, Queen Victoria’s husband Prince Albert had it recut and polished. Around this time, rumors also started ...

many from Victoria's Regal Circlet, as well as one of the world's largest jewels. The Koh-i-Noor diamond had been successively mounted in the crowns of Queen Alexandra and Queen Mary, and was once ...

The crown also features large diamonds, including one given to Queen Victoria in 1856 by the Sultan of Turkey. But the most controversial diamond is the Koh-i-Noor diamond, which is set into the ...

Kohinoor diamond: Kohinoor is considered the most ... along with the rest of Maharaja Gulab's wealth was given to Queen Victoria. Then it was brought from Buckingham Palace and embedded in the ...

According to Brittanica, the Cullinan diamond was purchased ... jewel be surrendered to Queen Victoria." The British government has rejected pleas to return the Kohinoor; during a 2010 trip ...

The Kohinoor diamond is just one of 2,800 stones set ... After Queen’s Death The company then presented the gem to Queen Victoria. Prince Albert, her consort, asked for it to be recut and ...

The Kohinoor — also spelled Koh-i-noor ... into “gifting” the diamond to Queen Victoria in 1849, according to private letters from the general viewed by NBC. The push for Britain to ...

Conversations about the diamond — also spelled Koh-i-noor ... Initially sparingly worn as a brooch by Queen Victoria, the Kohinoor became a part of the crown jewels; it was first set in ...

who'd inherited the Kohinoor. And they basically take this little boy's diamond in a treaty and give it to Queen Victoria. That loss is felt, memorialized, in India to this day. (SOUNDBITE OF ...

The Kohinoor diamond, which ranks as one of the world’s largest, was “gifted” to Queen Victoria in 1849 by the 11-year-old emperor of the Sikhs, Maharaja Duleep Singh. But Singh’s mother ...

That suited Queen Victoria just fine. Ruins of the historic Golconda Fort on the outskirts of Hyderabad in southern India. Experts have confirmed that the Koh-i-noor diamond came from the Golconda ...