bank holiday central weekend in the United Kingdom on 2-5 June. What events will take place over this bank holiday central weekend? On Saturday 2 June, The Queen will attend the Epsom Derby. On Sunday 3 June the Big Jubilee Lunch and the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant will take place. On Monday 4 June a concert will be held at Buckingham Palace and a network of beacons will be lit throughout the U…
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Princie, one of the largest pink diamonds in the world, has been sold at Christie’s auction in New York for more than $39.3 million. The Princie Diamond was purchased by an anonymous collector bidding by phone, Christie’s said. The 34.65 carat diamond’s origin can be traced back to the ancient diamond mines of Golconda in southern India. The Princie Diamond once belonged to the royal…
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…enir Programme click here. Here is our run-down of events over the Diamond Jubilee weekend, including approximate timings: Saturday 2 June, 2012 The Queen will attend the Epsom Derby. Sunday 3 June, 2012 The Big Jubilee Lunch: Building on the already popular Big Lunch initiative, people will be encouraged to share lunch with neighbours and friends as part of the Diamond Jubilee c…
ved as a wedding gift and which was subsequently set into a brooch for her coronation. A Rio Tinto spokesperson said that a diamond of this calibre was ”unprecedented”. ”It has taken 26 years of Argyle production to unearth this stone and we may never see one like this again,” said Argyle Pink Diamonds Manager Josephine Johnson. In 2010, a rare 24.78-carat “fancy inte…
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A rare blue diamond has been unearthed at Cullinan mine in South Africa. The 25.5-carat stone was recovered by Petra Diamonds at its Cullinan mine and is expected to bring large profits. Experts say the blue diamond could be worth more than $10 million, and the find gave a boost to Petra’s share price. Similar finds in recent years from the Cullinan mine have commanded high prices and Petra…
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Vitaly Grodi, a drunk taxi driver, who smashed into 12 cars in Moscow downtown, told police he decided to get into his cab naked after his girlfriend dumped him. The Russian police were alerted to the man’s erratic driving when he took a wrong turn in central Moscow. Police officers then watched in disbelief as the man, named on Russian TV as taxi driver Vitaly Grodi, narrowly avoided hitti…
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A dead body found in a freezer at a storage unit in Lewiston, Maine, which had been rented by Francis “Frank” Julian since 1992. Police said yesterday that the remains found in the freezer at Moore Self Storage in Lewiston may be Kitty Wardwell, a woman who went missing in 1983. Francis Julian was the on-off boyfriend of Kitty Wardwell, who went missing 28 years ago, aged 29. Police said…
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…y keen on diamonds,” he said. The most famous pink diamond in the world belongs to Queen Elizabeth II. The Williamson Pink was given to the British queen for her wedding in 1947 – the cut, 23.6-carat round stone was later set in a brooch. …
May 30 2012 | Posted in
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…nd 2009 had fallen “well short of standards”. The scandal has hit Barclays shares, which ended Thursday trading down 15.5%. Other banks shares also fell, with RBS losing 11.5%, Lloyds down 3.9%, and HSBC giving up 2.6%. Meanwhile, Chancellor George Osborne confirmed that HSBC, RBS, Citigroup and UBS were also under investigation. The Serious Fraud Office subsequently said it was in tal…
What we think about diamonds, is in fact, a myth. At the center of that myth is an illusion, that diamonds are valuable because they are rare. When writer Edward Epstein set out to investigate the diamond trade, he discovered that diamonds aren’t rare at all. Second only to Christmas, Valentine’s Day is the holiday when diamonds are most often given as the ultimate token of love. Central to the d…
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…e broadcast by the BBC, also includes Robbie Williams, Ed Sheeran, JLS, Kylie Minogue, Sir Tom Jones, Jessie J, Dame Shirley Bassey and Annie Lennox. And it will feature a special song – sung by 200 people from around the Commonwealth – co-written for the occasion by Gary Barlow and Lord Lloyd Webber. An A-list concert, which will be held in front of Buckingham Palace later today, wil…
nk diamond Martian Pink is expected to fetch at least $8 million when it goes under the hammer in Hong Kong The Williamson Pink was given to Queen Elizabeth II for her wedding in 1947 – the cut, 23.6-carat round stone was later set in a brooch. The Martian Pink is estimated to be worth $8-12 million, says Christie’s auction house. It is the largest round fancy intense pink diamond to e…
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Bob Diamond, Barclays Bank chief executive, has resigned with immediate effect. The move follows the resignation of chairman Marcus Agius and comes less than a week after Barclays Bank was fined a record amount for trying to manipulate inter-bank lending rates. Bob Diamond said he was stepping down because the external pressure on Barclays risked “damaging the franchise”. British PM D…
An orphaned puppy and an abandoned kitten who were put together at a rescue centre near London, UK, have become so close – they think they are sisters. Kitty the cat was brought into Battersea Cats and Dogs Home by a kind-hearted member of the public who found her alone in a garden when she was just one day old. To keep her company she was put together with Buttons the Jack Russell, who was…
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Early life Her Majesty the Queen was born on 21 April 1926 in London, the first child of Prince Albert, The Duke of York, and his wife, formerly Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon. Third in line to the throne, it seemed unlikely that Princess Elizabeth would be Queen. However, shortly after the death of George V, the new King – her uncle Edward VIII – dramatically abdicated so he could marry…
…, a group of UK-based Swazis protested outside the Savoy hotel, in London, where King Mswati – who is widely accused of profligate spending – is thought to be staying, with a delegation of 30 officials. “The money he is using to feed these people could go a long way back home,” said Flora Dlamini from the Swaziland Vigil group. King Mswati is rated by Forbes magazine as the…
e among the stars who have yet to perform before the Queen and other members of the Royal Family. The Queen was not present for the first 90 minutes of the concert, taking her seat in the Royal Box at 21:00 BST. The evening will end with the Queen lighting one of 4,500 beacons across the world marking her 60-year reign. The concert is being broadcast live on BBC One and BBC Radio 2 in the UK and t…
…ine's Day engagement promotion of a $10,010 dinner box with their own provided ring and meal As a courtesy-safety net to buyers provided by the pizza chain, if the package is not used before March 31 of this year, they say they’ll refund the entire cost. The packages are limited to one per person….
; miss u 4ever lady:) & still through those trials & tribulations the devil kept on trying to break them & soon realized…He couldn’t,” Bobbi Kristina Brown wrote. By the age of 30 Bobbi Kristina Brown will have inherited everything that belonged to her iconic mother – money, jewellery, cars, etc. She recently did a guest stint on Tyler Perry’s sitcom For Better…
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…owever, before the “Kate effect” began to work, with internet chatrooms abuzz. Belinda Hadden, daughter of the late Tory MP for Gosport and Fareham, Hants, Sir Reginald Bennett, says: “Within the next 24 hours, I had sold out. I sold 60 on my website, which is the amount I would usually sell in a whole year.” Belinda Hadden, who sources her fakes from India, China and Hatton Garden in London, says…
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…recorded a message of thanks to the nation ahead of a star-studded concert at Buckingham Palace on Monday. The two-minute message, filmed in her private apartments at the palace, will be broadcast at 18:00 BST on radio and television in the UK and across the Commonwealth. Crowds have started building up outside St Paul’s and Buckingham Palace, which the Queen will leave at 10:15 BST in her…
The Queen’s Jubilee celebrations are to conclude with a glittering procession and service of thanksgiving at St Paul’s Cathedral. The Queen's Jubilee celebrations are to conclude with a glittering procession and service of thanksgiving at St Paul’s Cathedral 10:30 St Paul’s service begins 11:30 The Queen is driven to Mansion House reception 12:45 Livery hosts Diamond Jubil…
Jun 5 2012 | Posted in
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Whitney Houston’s daughter, Bobbi Kristina Brown, and her rumored fiancé and “adoptive brother” Nick Gordon have once again defied their critiques by stepping out hand-in-hand over the weekend. Bobbi Kristina Brown, 19, showed off a huge diamond on her engagement finger amid controversial rumors that Nick Gordon, 22, has popped the question. She was spotted leaving an AT&T store with Nick Gor…
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ween Hammersmith and Tower Bridge in London, feting the British monarch whose longevity has given her the status of the nation’s favorite grandmother. The flotilla, the largest such pageant for 350 years, will range from rowing boats to military boats, including a barge carrying the Queen and other members of her family. The queen and members of her family will lead the river pageant aboard…
Beau Sancy, one of the world’s oldest and most famous diamonds, has sold for $9.7 million at auction in Geneva – twice its reserve. The 35-carat gem was worn by Marie de Medici at her coronation as queen of France in 1610. It has since passed among the royal families of Europe, used to show off their wealth – and pay their debts. Beau Sancy, one of the world's oldest and mo…
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