Kohinoor
The world is to see and explore a new exhibition at the Tower of London in the United Kingdom which is sponsored by Buckingham Place about the crown jewel, which opened to directly follow the coronation ceremony of King Charles, states that the Kohinoor was ‘taken by’ the East India Company and that Maharaja Duleep Singh has ‘compelled’ to surrender it.
Origins Room at Crown Jewel exhibition
It is for the first time, that history of one of the iconic Royal collections will be revealed as the new permanent Crown Jewels exhibition features an “origins room” to lighten some of the great stories behind the collections. The Royal collection includes the 105.6-carat diamond which it describes as the “symbol of conquest.”
Taking notes from the iconic and marvellous Kohinoor diamond history, there were several rulers who own the diamond including the Mughals, Shahs of Iran, Emirs of Afghanistan and Sikh Maharajas, the label in the origins room states.
Maharaja Duleep Singh surrender it to Queen Victoria
“The 1849 Treaty of Lahore compelled 10-year-old Maharaja Duleep Singh to surrender it to Queen Victoria, along with control of Punjab. ” A separate piece of new text about the Kohinoor on the Crown Jewels website said, “The East India Company took the jewel from deposed Maharaja Duleep Singh in 1849, as a condition of the Treaty of Lahore. ”
Moreover, the exhibition also features a film about the Kohinoor which “goes through its history using a graphic map. It shows where it was supposedly mined (the Golconda mines). . . . There is an image of Duleep Singh handing it over,” a spokesperson for Historic Royal Palaces said.
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“Kohinoor was taken by the British”
Text overlay on the film states: “Taken by the East India Company. ”
Now it describes it as a “symbol of conquest,” as the label accompanying the Kohinoor, which is set in the Queen Mother’s Crown, has also changed.
Speaking to the media, the spokesperson said, “The Royal Collection Trust has approved the new wording”. The transparency comes after Buckingham Palace announced that Queen Camilla would not be crowned with the Queen Mother Crown — set with the Kohinoor —at her coronation. She instead wore Queen Mary’s Crown.
