The Rodin sculpture that inspired the Impressionist movement. In this memoir, Wittman relates the stories behind his recoveries of priceless art and antiquities: The golden armor of an ancient Peruvian warrior king. He went undercover, usually unarmed, to catch art thieves, scammers, and black market traders in Paris and Philadelphia, Rio and Santa Fe, Miami and Madrid. Rising from humble roots as the son of an antiques dealer, Wittman built a twenty-year career that was nothing short of extraordinary. Wittman, the founder of the FBI’s Art Crime Team, pulls back the curtain on his career for the first time. On that occasion, the necklace was shortened from 40 to 31 collets.In Priceless, Robert K. Queen Elizabeth inherited the necklace when her mother died in 2002, and has since loaned it to her daughter-in-law, now the Queen Consort.Ĭamilla, then Duchess of Cornwall, was pictured wearing it in an official portrait to mark her 60th birthday in summer 2007. It was worn on the day along with Queen Victoria’s coronation necklace and two strings of pearls. This antique diamond collet necklace was given to Queen Elizabeth by her husband, King George VI, to mark their coronation on May 12, 1937. The additional four stones were taken from an aigrette and a garter star. The drops, which originally formed part of the Indian armlet setting of the controversial Koh-i-Noor, were removed from the Timur Ruby necklace in 1858. They were subsequently worn at the coronations of consorts Queen Mary in 1911 and Queen Elizabeth in 1937. The coronation earrings were also among the new commissions made for Queen Victoria, who wore them often. The diamond was returned to the necklace for the state portrait, by Sir Gerald Kelly, and for the celebratory images taken in July 1939 by Cecil Beaton. In 1937, the Lahore Diamond was removed, recut and set temporarily in Queen Elizabeth’s new crown for the coronation. Meanwhile, the Lahore Diamond, which had been set in the Timur Ruby necklace in 1853, was made detachable so it could be used as the pendant. The diamonds are said to have been taken from “swords and useless things” in the royal collection.įor the necklace, 28 stones were removed from a Garter badge and a sword hilt. The new commissions included a trio of diamond bow brooches, as well as a new diamond necklace and earrings. The necklace was among several new pieces of jewellery ordered by Queen Victoria to replace the items lost when her uncle became the King of Hanover, King Ernst August I, and sought possession of the jewellery that had belonged to Queen Charlotte, his late mother and Queen Victoria’s grandmother.Īfter a legal battle that lasted almost two decades, the courts ruled in December 1857 that Victoria had to hand over several pieces of jewellery to her Hanoverian cousins, including Queen Charlotte’s diamond necklace and earrings.
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