Marie-Thérèse de France, the only surviving child of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette, received the jewels after she was exiled to Austria. She eventually bequeathed them to her niece, the Duchess ...

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 ...

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.