Koh-i-Noor: A Biography of the World’s Most Famous Diamond
105.6 CARATS
The Koh-i-Noor is one of the largest cut diamonds in the world, weighing 105.6 carats (21.12 g) and part of the British Crown Jewels.
When Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother died in 2002, more than 200,000 people came to pay their respects, filing past her coffin as she lay in state in London’s Westminster Hall. On her chest was the Queen Mother’s Crown, which dazzled with 2,800 diamonds. But one of those precious stones – the 105-carat Koh-i-Noor – shone brighter than all the others. And it was particularly fitting that it should be here, in pride of place, as Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon, wife of King George VI and mother of Queen Elizabeth II, had been the last Empress of India. India still claims the Koh-i-Noor as its own.
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