The British royal family's crown jewels aren't just crowns and jewels. "Crown jewels" is really just a catchall name for a suite of artifacts and regalia the royals use for coronations and other ...

The Crown Jewels are made up of more than 100 objects ... on his 66th birthday by the Transvaal government, which was under British rule. Historic Royal Palaces says this was "intended to ...

In 1671 a former Civil War soldier and his gang conned their way into stealing the British Crown Jewels from the Tower of London. It became the first and only time anyone has attempted to steal them.

While the British Crown Jewel collection is valued at around $3.5 billion, it’s truly considered priceless and lives in the ...

Americans didn’t have queens or kings – or crown jewels to protect. But we had Yellowstone and Yosemite and the Grand Canyon and Acadia seashore – and many more natural splendors.

From Robin Hood to damning accusations of murder, tyranny and tactical ineptitude; history and popular culture have not been kind to England's 'Bad King John'. But just how much is fact and how ...

The Imperial State Crown, the Sovereign's Sceptre and the Sovereign's Orb were each placed atop the Queen's coffin for the State Funeral on Monday The British royal family's crown jewels were ...

is set at the front of the Imperial State Crown. Now, the historic legal agreement that arranged for the cutting of the world’s largest diamond is being auctioned later this month. Bonhams is ...

"The problem is they (British Library) didn't understand what the crown jewels were and how to protect them. You have to protect the crown jewels." The recovery process will involve finding and ...

Collected over centuries by British kings and queens ... complicated thousand-year history buried within the Crown Jewels. These jewels - some of the most beautiful objects ever crafted - reveal ...