The star of the auction was Marie Antoinette's Pearl ... jewellery sold by Italy's royal Bourbon-Parma house. Some of the jewels had not been seen in public for 200 years. The previous record ...

Marie Antoinette was only 14 and Louis just 15 when they married and received two million francs worth of jewellery from her French father-in-law. The queen would also receive many more jewels ...

The Lost Colony of Roanoke The mystery of the Lost Colony of Roanoke continues to perplex historians. In 1587, a gr ...

Two diamond bracelets once owned by the queen of France, Marie Antoinette, have sold at auction ... a letter stating that a wooden chest with jewels would be sent for safekeeping.

Marie Antoinette didn’t say let them eat cake As the story goes, when Queen Marie Antoinette heard that the French peasants were starving and didn’t have enough bread, she exclaimed “Let ...

The price in Swiss francs fetched at an auction in Geneva by a royal treasure trove including jewels that belonged to French Queen Marie-Antoinette. The number of people who made use of ...

Marie Antoinette Boullard-Devé settled in Indochina in the early 1920s where she traveled and painted, depicting the local inhabitants and their culture. In the International Colonial Exhibition of ...

A diamond necklace that has been worn at two British coronations, and is thought to have stones from the infamous necklace at the heart of a Marie-Antoinette ... Georgian jewels in private hands ...

Under the pavements of Maida Vale, there is a basement flat unlike any other – two quite shabby small white rooms, full of ...

From the Crown Jewels of Ireland to the lost Imperial Fabergé eggs, and even a solid gold toilet, amazing treasures totalling billions remain missing to this day. Read on to discover 35 lost, stolen ...

“Marie Antoinette,” created by Tony-award-winning University of Iowa alum David Adjmi, is a modern take on the infamous royal, detailing her macabre journey from exorbitant queen to societal outcast.