A collection of jewels belonging to arguably Europe’s greatest ever royal dynasty is now set to go on display to the public for the first time in over 100 years.

The jewels, including one of the largest cut diamonds in the world when it was set, had been thought lost or stolen, but had in fact been kept in such secrecy, that even the patriarch of the dynasty himself didn’t know of their existence.

The House of Habsburg of Austria had existed as undisputed rulers of Austria since 1278, and provided crown-heads, empresses—kings and queens of all sorts—to Europe for centuries.

Following their exile in 1919, one year after World War I and the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the family of the last Austrian emperor, Karl I, was forced to abandon most of their belongings, with only a

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