Crown Jewels of Britain and Europe
Author: Michael Prince
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Published: 1991-08-01
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ISBN-13: 9780517076071
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Author: Michael Prince
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Published: 1991-08-01
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ISBN-13: 9780517076071
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Michel (Prince of Greece)
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Published: 1983
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9781850521525
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Michel (Prince of Greece)
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 152
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKTHIS BOOK IS A CELEBRATION OF SOME OF THE WORLD'S MOST INTRIGUING AND PRECIOUS OBJECTS: THE CROWNS, SCEPTRES, ORBS, JEWELS AND EMBLEMS OF THE ROYAL FAMILIES OF EUROPE.
Author: Edward Francis Twining Baron Twining
Publisher: London : Batsford
Published: 1960
Total Pages: 974
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Lord Twining
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Published: 1960
Total Pages: 707
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Edward Francis Twining (Lord)
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Published: 1960
Total Pages: 707
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William Dalrymple
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2017-09-12
Total Pages: 307
ISBN-13: 1635570778
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the internationally acclaimed and bestselling historians William Dalrymple and Anita Anand, the first comprehensive and authoritative history of the Koh-i-Noor diamond, arguably the most celebrated jewel in the world. On March 29, 1849, the ten-year-old leader of the Sikh kingdom of the Punjab was ushered into the magnificent Mirrored Hall at the center of the British fort in Lahore, India. There, in a formal Act of Submission, the frightened but dignified child handed over to the British East India Company swathes of the richest land in India and the single most valuable object in the subcontinent: the celebrated Koh-i-Noor diamond, otherwise known as the Mountain of Light. To celebrate the acquisition, the British East India Company commissioned a history of the diamond woven together from the gossip of the Delhi Bazaars. From that moment forward, the Koh-i-Noor became the most famous and mythological diamond in history, with thousands of people coming to see it at the 1851 Great Exhibition and still more thousands repeating the largely fictitious account of its passage through history. Using original eyewitness accounts and chronicles never before translated into English, Dalrymple and Anand trace the true history of the diamond and disperse the myths and fantastic tales that have long surrounded this awe-inspiring jewel. The resulting history of south and central Asia tells a true tale of greed, conquest, murder, torture, colonialism, and appropriation that shaped a continent and the Koh-i-Noor itself.
Author: Regal Galleries (London)
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Published: 1982
Total Pages: 40
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Max Berman
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Published: 1939
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Anna Keay
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Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780500289822
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis text captures the magnificence of a collection of symbolic objects steeped in English history like no other: the crown jewels.