The legend of the curse of the Hope diamond
According to the legend, its origin is in the India, where which affirms that it was linked in a statue of the temple of the Situated Indian goddess, of finally was robbed.
The first historical track of this diamond goes back to years 1660-1661, when the French merchant Jean-Baptiste acquired it to Tavernier. Tavernier was sold it to king Luis XIV of France in 1669 by 220,000 pounds. According to the legend, Tavernier I end up going to ruin because of a strange spell in which a relative took part, by which had to flee to Russia, place where it would be found dead of cold and means devoured by the rats in 1689.
Luis XIV kept the diamond in a coffer. In 1691 the diamond reappeared due to the accomplishment of an inventory of the real treasure. Madame de Montespan, the lover of turn of the king, knew of its existence and wanted that the sovereign flattered it. Shortly after it fell in misfortune and it died forgotten, in 1707. In addition, during the past few years of the century XVII France it underwent plagues and epidemics, which increased the belief that it attracted the misfortune and infortunio.
On the occasion of the visit of the ambassador of the Shah of Persia, Luis XIV showed to his diamond the ambassador the 7 to him of December of 1715. That same year Luis XIV died of unexpected form. His successor Luis XV ordered to conserve the diamond in a coffer and forgetfulness of. Luis XV did not suffer great misfortunes.
In 1774, Maria Antonieta, wife of king Luis XVI of France took control of the diamond, and in some occasion she lent the princess of Lamballe. In the end, as much Maria Antonieta as their husband Luis XVI of France died in the guillotine during the French Revolution. The princess of Lamballe suffered the same fate that the kings of France.
In 1792, thieves seized of the diamond, but they were killed later among them and only one could keep the stone that conserved until 1820. That year, a stranger showed the diamond the Dutch tallador Wilhelm Fals so that of the jewel he did two. First Federico was acquired by Carlos Guillermo, Duke of Brunswick. The Duke of Brunswick remained in the street before passing two months. Second he conserved the Dutch. The son of Wilhelm Fals fell in love with the diamond and took it rendered, to be sold it to a called French Beaulieu. When the Fals young person found out that his father had died of pain, committed suicide.
Mr. Beaulieu sold the stone, as soon as he knew of the tragedy, to a certain David Eliason, Jewish tanner, who also was scared and gone to be sold it to king Jorge IV of England. The English sovereign committed the error to inlay the diamond in which it would be his crown. He lost the reason in 1822 and he died eight years later. It was then when it appeared Sir Henry Hope, personage had much money and he did not know what to do with him. Consequently, he chose the collector profession, but it was a type very practitioner, that did not want to run risks with the diamond. He contracted a group of rosacruces and he asked to them to organize a magical ceremony, to exorcise the jewel. And when he was sure that he would not cause more problems to anybody, decided to give his name him.
Nothing bad happened to him to Sir Henry, but when in 1901 it sold the Hope diamond to a North American of Colot name, the curse returned. This man lost the health at the same time as the fortune and had to pass the jewel to prince Kanitowski. This Russian nobleman era very become fond of to juergas, besides immensely rich. The prince arrived at Paris, capital of the diversion, and flattered the diamond to one vedette. Few days later an argument arose and Kanitowski killed to shots its friend.
The Greek Simón Montarides was the following proprietor of the diamond, and went to the following one to which followed the bad luck of the diamond. The axis of the vehicle became broken in which it traveled and it fell to a precipice that the destiny placed in its way. He did not die only, since in addition his wife and her son traveled in the same vehicle.
The following proprietor was going to be Abdul Hamid II, king of Turkey, who I end up losing the Turkish throne because of a revolution and went to die of desperation in the jail. The person who obtained the diamond later disappeared the ocean in the heat of.
The director of Washington Post acquired the diamond later than a French banking institution had that it in safekeeping and it went to the bankruptcy. The wife of the journalist became ill seriously and his son died under the wheels of a vehicle.
The family Mac Lean, of the United States, was the last one in owning the diamond. In 1918, one of the children of the family, eight years of age, died hasty. Soon another one of its daughters died by an overdose of sleep-inducing. The father died in the sanatorium victim of a depression. Mrs. Mac Lean ordered to keep the diamond during 20 years in a bank vault. Twenty years later Evelyn Walsh Mac Lean, his granddaughter, she died mysteriously in Texas.
After all these events, the diamond expert Harry Wiston acquired and it crossing to the Smithsonian Institute, of Washington, where he exposes himself at present in a crystal ballot box.
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