It looks like the Queen is about to face a major legal battle over a £100million diamond which forms part of the Crown Jewels, if emerging reports are anything to go by.
According to The Sun, a group of businessmen and Bollywood members from India claim the Koh-i-Nor diamond was stolen by the British after the colonisation of Punjab, and they want it back.
The gem was worn by the Queen Mother at the Coronation of her husband and daughter, as well as Queen Alexandra and Queen Mary, but instructions have been given to British lawyers to start legal proceedings.
David de Souza from Tito, who is helping to fund the fight, told The Daily Mail that he believes it is “one of the many artefacts taken from India under dubious circumstance,” a sentiment echoed by Bollywood star Bhumicka Singh.
"The Koh-i-Noor is not just a 105-carat stone, but part of our history and culture and should undoubtedly," Singh said.
However, not everyone agrees with them; historian Andrew Roberts told The Mail on Sunday: “Those involved in this ludicrous case should recognise that the British Crown Jewels is precisely the right place for the Koh-i-Noor diamond to reside, in grateful recognition for over three centuries of British involvement in India, which led to the modernisation, development, protection, agrarian advance, linguistic unification and ultimately the democratisation of the sub-continent.’
We take this is a case of wait and see!
