Cursed Jewels: How Diamonds, Sapphires, and Pearls Changed People's Fates and the Course of History

The Hope Diamond, the Peregrina Pearl, Koh-i-Noor, the Regent Diamond, the lost tiara of the Romanovs, Marie Antoinette's necklace... Behind these legendary jewels lies a bloody trail of treachery, murder, wars, and overthrown dynasties.

Queens and emperors, billionaires and society belles — all of them became captives of the fatal beauty of these stones. Beautiful and deadly, the jewels enchanted their owners with an aura of mystery and doom.

Having survived revolutions, fires, and plunder, these treasures hold stories of human greed and obsession. Their dark legend is a mirror reflecting the darkest side of our nature.

Ana Trigo invites you on an exciting journey through the fates of exceptional symbols of power and the people whose lives they destroyed. These are stories of unrestrained thirst for possession of perfection — that beauty which can inspire as well as ruin.

Silent witnesses of human passions will reveal their secrets to you.