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No ordinary diamond: how the Koh-i-Noor became an imperial possession

By Arun Kumar, Assistant Professor in Imperial and Colonial History, University of Nottingham
Ahead of King Charles’s coronation on May 6 2023, Buckingham Palace has announced that Camilla, the Queen consort, will be wearing a modified version of the crown made for Queen Mary, the consort of George V. This is the first time since the 1700s that a queen consort crown is being reused. Even more notably, the Koh-i-Noor diamond will…The Conversation


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