Hundreds of royal jewels to go on display at Buckingham Palace

Among them are the Diamond Diadem, made for George IV’s extravagant coronation and later immortalised in coins, banknotes and stamps bearing the image of Queen Elizabeth II, and Queen Victoria’s Small Diamond Crown, so closely associated with the monarch that it was placed on her coffin during her lying in state.

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