The 300-carat necklace thought to be at the center of the infamous 'Affair of the Diamond Necklace' that contributed to the ...

The necklace, which has been worn at two British coronations, smashed auction house estimates at a jewelry sale in ...

Which is what happened to the jewel at the center of Marie Antoinette’s Affair of the ... past for reassurance—or to escape to times when life appeared less complicated.” ...

Even when he played Louis XVI in Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette ... Silver’s Hester Street back in 1975. Kane is 72 in real life, with eyes that are a little milky, a slightly quavering ...

As his debut novel is released, Simon Delaney speaks to Aine Toner about the Third Reich’s fascination with beautiful pieces of art, family and why it takes a village to write a book Presenter ...

But not for the reason you might expect. There has been a pretty hysterical reaction to both sales, painting a picture of the pollies as Marie Antoinette-style tyrants living large while the rest ...

Valois-Saint-Rémy was sentenced to life in prison in 1786 but escaped the following year, while Marie Antoinette ceased almost all of her public appearances, so great was the hatred towards her ...

Marie Antoinette is as renowned today for her life of luxury as she was when she reigned as the Queen of France over 200 years ago. But her unrestrained opulence marked a stark contrast between the ...