The Vladimir Tiara was a favorite of Queen Elizabeth II, even becoming the final tiara she wore in public in 2019. A British antiques dealer smuggled the diadem out of Russia during the Revolution in ...

Barbara Woolworth Hutton was one of the first American socialites to seize the public’s attention for her wealth and lavish style as well as for her troubled private life. Heiress to the Woolworth ...

On July 17, 1918, the reigning members of Russia's last ruling royal family, the Romanovs—Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Tsarina Alexandra, and their five children, Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and ...

Originally created for Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia, the Vladimir Tiara features interchanging pearls and emeralds and was one of her most prized possessions. But when the Russian Revolution ...