Blue Diamonds – Interesting Facts
Fancy blue diamonds are available in any shade from sky blue to deep blue. These diamonds obtain their blue color from boron particles found within the actual diamond structure. Blue diamonds make up about 1 percent of diamonds worldwide. The only notable mine that produces blue diamonds is the Cullinan mine in South Africa.
The Hope diamond, one of the most famous diamonds in the world, is a blue diamond with a very deep blue color. This large diamond weights 45.52 carats, and is famous for the bad luck it gives to whoever owns it. The first known appearance of this diamonds was when it was brought from India to Europe in the seventeenth, century, and was sold to King Louis XVI of France. At that time it was called the Tavernier Blue. King Louis bought it for his wife Queen Marie Antoinette. As we all know they were both beheaded during the French Revolution. The diamond was also supposedly bad luck for its later owner the American Evelyn Walsh McLean. You can see this diamond yourself in the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC.
Naturally we all remember the blue diamond from the movie Titanic. The diamond in that movie was called the Heart of the Sea or Le Coeur de la Mer. All the guys remember this from the breathtaking scene where Jack was drawing her. Gloria Stewart, the actress who played the role of the Rose that threw the diamond into the sea, wore a 15 carat blue diamond to the academy awards in 1998, that was worth $20 million.
The Idol’s Eye is the largest known blue diamond and it weighs 70 carats. Legends tell that it was set as the eye to a large sculpture in a temple in Libya, and that appararently is how it was named. The diamond was taken during WW2 and afterwards was sold to May Stanton, a wealthy American. It is said that Mrs. Stanton lived alone in a mansion, and wore her blue diamond every day for breakfast. The blue diamond was so beloved to her that she didn’t want to be parted from it.
Fancy blue diamonds are available in any shade from sky blue to deep blue. These diamonds obtain their blue color from boron particles found within the actual diamond structure. Blue diamonds make up about 1 percent of diamonds worldwide. The only notable mine that produces blue diamonds is the Cullinan mine in South Africa.
The Hope diamond, one of the most famous diamonds in the world, is a blue diamond with a very deep blue color. This large diamond weights 45.52 carats, and is famous for the bad luck it gives to whoever owns it. The first known appearance of this diamonds was when it was brought from India to Europe in the seventeenth, century, and was sold to King Louis XVI of France. At that time it was called the Tavernier Blue. King Louis bought it for his wife Queen Marie Antoinette. As we all know they were both beheaded during the French Revolution. The diamond was also supposedly bad luck for its later owner the American Evelyn Walsh McLean. You can see this diamond yourself in the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC.
Naturally we all remember the blue diamond from the movie Titanic. The diamond in that movie was called the Heart of the Sea or Le Coeur de la Mer. All the guys remember this from the breathtaking scene where Jack was drawing her. Gloria Stewart, the actress who played the role of the Rose that threw the diamond into the sea, wore a 15 carat blue diamond to the academy awards in 1998, that was worth $20 million.
The Idol’s Eye is the largest known blue diamond and it weighs 70 carats. Legends tell that it was set as the eye to a large sculpture in a temple in Libya, and that appararently is how it was named. The diamond was taken during WW2 and afterwards was sold to May Stanton, a wealthy American. It is said that Mrs. Stanton lived alone in a mansion, and wore her blue diamond every day for breakfast. The blue diamond was so beloved to her that she didn’t want to be parted from it.
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