The more beautiful the more dangerous? Legend has it that this blue diamond has killed a lot of cattle...

In, colored diamonds are a big love for many people, but do you know? Compared to the already popular yellow and pink diamonds, the attractive blue diamond is actually more expensive. Speaking of blue diamonds, there is no one in the world that is comparable to all kinds of legends!

希望之钻

Hope drill

1642

French explorer and jeweler Tavimir

I got this in India

The world's largest dark blue diamond,

(The original stone weighed 112.23 carats,

Now weighs 45.52 carats)

Bring it back to France.

then

In 1668

Louis XIV bought this blue diamond

Louis XIV

Louis XIV, who bought the blue diamond, is very happy.

Call it

"Blue of France"

Let the royal jeweler cut into a 67.125-carat pear-shaped diamond

Just put it on the gold base

Connected to the ribbon

It became the item that the king used at the ceremony.

then

Louis XIV, who only wore this blue diamond once

In the near future...

Bye

Then, this blue diamond brought them bad luck one after another...

Louis XV

Louis XV did not personally wear this blue diamond.

But once loaned it to his mistress, the White House

(Countess Du Barry)

During the French Revolution

The prince was decapitated

Queen Mary

Louis XVI Dynasty

Marie Antoinette

Always wear this blue diamond

Finally, I was beheaded.

Henry Phillips Hope

This blue diamond is again in the world in 1824.

Its new owner is Henry Flipp Hope.

(Henr Philip Hope)

He named this diamond by his own name.

Call it "The Hope Diamond"

This name is still in use today.

Hope has borrowed the brooch with the "Drill of Hope" from his brother's wife.

Since then, the family has fallen

Celebrity Evelyn Walsh McCollin

Early 20th Century

I hope that the diamond will change hands in Europe.

Blue diamonds have also been cut many times

But the tragedy has not stopped

Washington DC socialite

Evelyn Walsh McCollin

(Evelyn Walsh MacLean)

Bought this diamond

Her son was immediately murdered

His husband was also involved in the quagmire of government scandals.

...

After a hundred years of turmoil,

The doom of this blue diamond was finally ended by his courage...

Mr. Harry Winston, who bought the "Drill of Hope" in 1949↑

Harry Winston as the last private owner of the diamond

Not being riddled with bad luck

Ten years later

He donated it to the world's largest union of museums and galleries - the Smithsonian Institution.

From then on

Hope Diamond found its true attribution

Hope Diamond has been collected in the Smithsonian Institutional Museum since 1959.

So the cursed blue diamond eventually became

...

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