Bad Luck Diamond "Hope"

"Hope" weighs 45.42 carats, dark blue, and is a world-famous treasure Hope Diamond A cursed gemstone

The American movie "Titanic", which once caused a sensation all over the world, has a necklace set with a huge blue diamond, which is said to be the terrifying blue "Hope Diamond" The Hope Diamond is the world's largest existing blue diamond, weighing 45.52 carats. Currently, the diamond is housed in the National Museum of Natural History at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Legend has it that this is a cursed gem that brings bad luck to its owner.

According to metaphysics, things such as jewelry and diamonds, always accompanied by murder and robbery, are a bad thing stained with blood, as for this diamond of doom, the legend is that the owner of it died mysteriously one after another, until it was donated to the Smithsonian Institution in the United States, the bad luck was stopped.

The specific deeds are summarized below:

In 1642, the French explorer and jeweller Tavermier first acquired this huge gemstone diamond, weighing 112 carats, in southwestern India, which has an extremely rare deep blue color. Tavermil brought the gem back to France and presented it to King Louis XIV of France, who conferred him an official position and rewarded him with a large sum of money in return. The legendary bad luck began to bebefall those who came into contact with the gems. Tavimir's fortune was spent by his unfilial son, and at the age of 80 he was so poor and penniless that he had to go to India again in search of new wealth. There, however, he was bitten to death by wild dogs.

Next up was King Louis XIV of France. He sharpened the blue gemstone into a diamond weighing 69.03 carats. Louis XIV wore it only once, and soon died of smallpox. He succeeded King Louis XV of France and became the new owner of the diamonds. He swore not to wear the big dark blue diamond, but he lent it to his mistress. As a result, Louis XV's mistress was beheaded during the French Revolution. The large blue diamond was passed on to King Louis XVI of France, who often wore it to his queen, and as a result, both Louis XVI and his wife were guillotined. Queen Louis XVI's girlfriend, Princess Lamberna, then became the owner of the blue diamond. She was probably killed in the French Revolution because she wore this upside-down diamond.

The large blue diamond was stolen from the French treasury in 1792. The fate of the thief is unknown, except that it was reworked once, reduced to 45.52 carats, and appeared on the London jewellery market in 1830, where it was immediately bought by the banker Hope for £18,000. Since then, the blue diamond has been named "Hope" after its new owner. Because the English Hope is also the meaning of hope, so the drill is also known as "hope". Hope, a banker who never married, passed on the blue diamond to his grandson (on the condition that he change his surname to Hope). The new owner of the diamond later married an American actress, Josie, and soon after, Hope Jr. went bankrupt and Jossi divorced him. Jossi, who died in 1940 in Poston, was destitute in her later years, often complaining that the "hope" of the blue diamond had brought her an inextricable fortune. In 1906, Hope Jr. was forced to sell the blue diamond Hope in order to pay off his debts, and in the two years that followed, Hope was resold several times.

In 1908, the blue diamond "Hope" was bought by Sultan Hamid II of Turkey for $400,000. It is said that the merchant who handled the sale was out with his wife and children when his car overturned off a cliff and the whole family was killed. The blue diamond "Hope" was worn by the Sultan in the Turkish court as a reward to his confidant Zobid, who was soon executed by the Sultan.

In 1911, McClain, the postal chief in Washington, D.C., bought the blue diamond "Hope" for $114,000, and he gave it to his wife as a gift. Lady McClain was told that it was a diamond that would bring bad luck to a single care, and talked about many historical legends, and Mrs. McClain laughed it off. She often wears this diamond and often wears it with another of her own famous diamonds, the 94.8-carat "Star of the East", to show luxury and wealth. Perhaps it was a coincidence! The year after Mrs. McClain received the "hope" of the blue diamond, her son was killed in a car accident, her husband, Mr. McClain, died soon after, and her daughter died of an overdose on sleeping pills.

When Mrs. Cousin died in 1947, Winston, a famous American jeweler, bought all of her jewels in 1958 and became the new owner of the blue diamond "Hope". Winston took the diamond of bad luck and flew across the Atlantic Ocean many times in different seasons, all of course, uneventful, but an interesting thing happened.

Once, Winston and his wife went to Lisbon, the capital of Portugal, and when he returned to New York, his wife flew away the day before, and Winston himself flew back to New York the next day. Mrs. Winston's plane flew as scheduled and landed at Maria Airport in the Azores for refueling, but was delayed for about three hours due to a minor engine failure. While waiting for repairs, a male passenger suddenly refused to travel on this plane and insisted on a change to the next day's plane, so he got off the plane and left. Unbeknownst to Winston, he was on his way to the Lisbon airport the next day when he received a telegram from his wife saying that she had arrived safely in New York. Winston slipped the electricity into his pocket, boarded a plane to New York, and when the plane took off, he found his next seat empty, and he was glad that he could get a good night's sleep. When he woke up, the plane arrived at the Maria airport in the Azores, a gas station, and while the plane was refueling, he got off the plane and went for a walk.

When he returned to the plane, he found that there was already a guest in the next seat, and this person was talking about one of his adventures to the passengers on board. He said that he was on the same plane yesterday with the wife of the owner of the Diamond of Bad Luck, and sure enough, the plane broke down at the Mary Ye Airport, and he quickly escaped from the plane, asking to take today's plane instead, and so on. The traveler continued: "I am not superstitious, but why should I risk being on the same plane with the wife of the owner of the Diamond of Bad Luck? Winston listened to it, laughing and crying, and thought to himself, if this fellow knew that I was the owner of the Blue Diamond's "hope," what would he be now? Mr. Winston, who was well-mannered, probably couldn't bear it, and he took out of his pocket a telegram from his wife, and handed it to the excited traveler next to him, and suddenly he was as quiet as a deflated ball, and he reached his destination, New York, and the traveler never spoke again.

This one has gone through ups and downs and got its suitable home. Winston donated it as a gift to the nation, and it is now housed at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., USA. Since then, it has ceased to be a flaunting of luxury and wealth, or an ornament to add to one's delicate beauty, but has become a specimen of scientific research.