A diamond necklace with a possible link to Marie Antoinette, the last queen of France, has sold for $4.8 million at auction.

The necklace containing around 300 carats of diamonds was bought by an unidentified woman who put in her bid over the phone, ...

Experts say some of the stones in the piece are a match with the original diamonds central to a royal scandal.

Sotheby’s in Geneva was sparkling last week as the historic sale of Royal & Noble jewels took place. Swiss society and the ...

A diamond-studded necklace thought to be linked to a scandal that hastened the downfall of the doomed 18th century queen of ...

Tobias Kormind, managing director of Europe’s largest online diamond jeweller 77 Diamonds, shared his thoughts on the ...

A necklace thought to contain diamonds from an earlier necklace which embroiled Marie Antoinette in scandal has found success ...

The 300-carat necklace thought to be at the center of the infamous 'Affair of the Diamond Necklace' that contributed to the ...

The piece was at the centre of a scandal in the 1780s known as the 'Diamond Necklace Affair' in which a hard-up noblewoman ...

A 300-carat necklace, whose diamonds have been linked to a scandal involving the last French queen Marie Antoinette, sold ...

The magnificent necklace may contain diamonds involved in a scandal surrounding Marie-Antoinette, that would eventually ...

(IDEX Online) - An historic necklace that has been linked to Marie Antoinette sold for $4.8m at Sotheby's Geneva, smashing ...