The may contain diamonds involved in a scandal surrounding Marie-Antoinette, that would eventually trigger the French Revolution.

The necklace containing around 300 carats of diamonds was bought by an unidentified woman who put in her bid over the phone, Sotheby's said.

Experts say some of the stones in the piece are a match with the original diamonds central to a royal scandal.

Worn at Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation in 1953, the 300-carat diamond necklace sold Wednesday for more than twice its estimate at an auction in Geneva. Tristan Fewings/Getty Images for Sotheby's It's a sparkling piece of scandal. A 300-carat 18th ...

A necklace thought to contain diamonds from an earlier necklace which embroiled Marie Antoinette in scandal has found success at auction.

The famous diamond necklace liked by the queen of France, Marie Antoinette, has been auctioned for $4.8 million.According to CNN, the diamond necklace worn at two British coronation ceremonies was sold for over 4.

Both were guillotined in 1793 during the French Revolution. The jewels in question were at the centre of a 1785 scandal known as the Diamond Necklace Affair in which a hard-up noblewoman named Jeanne de la Motte pretended to be the French queen and ...

A diamond-studded necklace thought to be linked to a scandal that hastened the downfall of the doomed 18th century queen of France, Marie Antoinette, sold at auction in Geneva on Wednesday for 4.26 million Swiss francs ($4.

"There is obviously a niche in the market for historical jewels with fabulous provenances," Sotheby's jewelry specialist Andres White Correal said after a diamond-studded necklace with a possible link to Marie Antoinette's downfall sold for more than double the pre-sale estimate.