History of the Hope Diamond. The Condensed Version.

Long ago in India there is a statue of the goddess Sita with a large blue diamond eye. A European explorer named Tavernier comes along and seeing the large diamond, steals it. As an unwanted bonus, he also causes a curse on the diamond. Before the curse takes effect though he makes his way back to France and sells the diamond to the Sun King of France, Louis XIV. Tavernier then travels to Russia and is killed by wild dogs. The curse of the diamond. Whoa!

Some French kings own the diamond for a while passing down through the family. “ Son on this your 14th birthday I would like to give you this extrodinary and rare blue diamond. Oh and it has a curse on it but ignore that. Nice diamond huh?� This seems to work for a while until Louis the XVI and his queen Marie Antoinette, she of the famous eat cake quote, are beheaded by the Guillotine. The curse of the blue diamond.

The diamond is stolen from the French and suddenly shows up in England. A person by the name of Hope buys it and the diamond becomes known forever after as the Hope diamond. Hope goes broke and is forced to sell the diamond. The curse lives on.

Now the diamond makes its way to the Americas and shows up in New York. On the Titanic? Not likely. Numerous people in New York own the Hope Diamond though no stories of owners dying have come to light. Eventually it falls into the hands of a Harry Winston who donates it to the Smithsonian. The Smithsonian is too grand to be effected by a curse and the legend becomes an old story.

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