We Missed It!

the 76-carat Archduke Joseph diamond,

with Christmas just around the corner it would have been perfect for Diana, speaking of perfect that is what the diamond is, it is described as internally flawless and comes from India's famous Golconda mines, which have a history all of their own, the famous Koh-i-Noor and blue Hope Diamond originated from the mines there,


the diamond was named after Archduke Joseph August of Austria, a prince of the Hungarian line of the Habsburgs, who reportedly deposited it in a bank vault in 1933, decades later it surfaced at auction in 1961 and again at Christie's in November 1993, when it sold for £4 million, now for the big one, this time the diamond was sold to an anonymous bidder by the Christie's auction house in Geneva for a cool £13 million, which I guess was not a bad investment, it is a shame we missed it, Diana would have loved it!