Queen Camilla did not wear the Koh-i-noor diamond, but she did wear a necklace bearing the Lahore diamond as its centerpiece.
to the vast collection of gems and other treasures the British royal family owns. To their critics, this collection has increasingly come to represent the colonialism and looting of the British Empire.The royal family announced prior to the coronation that one of the most famous and controversial items in its possession — the Koh-i-noor diamond — wouldpart of the ceremony. This diamond passed through a series of Mughal and Arab empires before becoming a symbol of the Sikh Empire.
The Koh-i-noor diamond was used in a series of British crowns. As described by the Royal Collection, its most recent use wasThis crown was made in 1937 for Queen Elizabeth, consort of King George VI, using many stones already in the [Royal] collection. Most of the diamonds were removed from Queen Victoria's Regal Circlet. The Koh-i-nûr diamond had been successively mounted in the crowns of Queen Alexandra and Queen Mary, and was once again reset for this crown.
Rather than commission a new crown, as is customary, Camilla will modify Queen Mary's crown using diamonds from Queen Elizabeth II's personal collection, the palace said in a statement Tuesday. Such a move sidestepped the issue in only a narrow sense. One of the items of jewelry worn by the Queen Consort at the coronation came to the Royal Family via the same controversial treaty.Queen Camilla did not wear the Koh-i-noor diamond, but she did wear the late Queen Elizabeth II's coronation necklace: a collection of diamonds that includes as its centerpiece the Lahore diamond.
While less infamous than the Koh-i-noor Diamond, the Lahore diamond shares the same British-colonial history. While the former made no appearance at the coronation, this fact did not stop the latter from being prominently displayed.Garrard & Co - Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mothers Crown. https://www.rct.uk/collection/31703/queen-elizabeth-the-queen-mothers-crown. Accessed 8 May 2023.
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