Fit for Royalty
Despite what most people think, the biggest fans of jewellery in history are not women but men. Specifically, the maharajahs from pre-independent India, whose insatiable appetites for extravagant jewellery are legendary and quite possibly unrivalled by the monarchs of any other country.
Rare and exotic gems were not solely for flaunting wealth, they also symbolised power, authority and status in society.
