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Speculation? resignation?
Someone needs money again?
Selling off family jewels, not real estate this time?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/14/marie-antoinette-jewellery-pearl-earring-pendant-auction-sothebys?CMP=twt_gu
Sotheby’s is billing Wednesday’s sale as a rare chance to buy heirlooms and jewels that have been held in the Bourbon-Parma dynasty for generations, some of which haven’t been seen publicly for 200 years.
Marie Antoinette, who was guillotined in 1793 aged 37, had secretly smuggled abroad some of her most treasured possessions to her relatives living abroad, amid swelling revolutionary fervour that ultimately marked the beginning of the end of France’s centuries-old monarchy.