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

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

The top lot at Sotheby’s Royal and Noble sale fetched twice its low estimate following a seven minute bidding battle ...

Both were guillotined in 1793 during the French Revolution. The jewels in question were at the centre of a 1785 scandal known ...

To be exact, her new bling is a handmade emerald-cut diamond platinum ring set with two tapered diamond ... It also features ...