{"id":23032,"date":"2023-02-21T09:36:56","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T14:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/?p=23032"},"modified":"2024-07-03T19:49:41","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T23:49:41","slug":"danielle-kinsey-talks-to-nbc-news-about-the-queen-marys-crown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/2023\/danielle-kinsey-talks-to-nbc-news-about-the-queen-marys-crown\/","title":{"rendered":"Danielle Kinsey Talks to NBC News about the Queen Mary’s Crown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Danielle Kinsey Talks to NBC News about the Queen Mary’s Crown\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n
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History Professor Danielle Kinsey<\/a> spoke with NBC News following the decision to reset Queen Mary’s crown without the controversial Kohinoor diamond. A short excerpt of the article by Brahmjot Kaur can be found below with the full article, “Camilla swaps the Kohinoor diamond for another controversial stone on her coronation crown<\/a>,” can be found online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A<\/span>fter much speculation, Camilla, the queen consort, won\u2019t wear the controversial Kohinoor diamond that critics say was plundered under British rule \u2014 but some see the decision as an empty gesture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The royal family announced<\/a> this week that Queen Mary\u2019s crown, which held a replica of the Kohinoor diamond, would be reset without the stone ahead of the coronation of King Charles III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The crown will instead include the Cullinan III, IV and V diamonds as a tribute to Queen Elizabeth II. The stones, mined from South Africa, were part of her personal jewelry collection as brooches, but they are not without controversy either: Historians point out though they were gifted to King Edward VII, the nearly flawless diamonds are still artifacts of British imperialism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe decision to exclude the Kohinoor from the crowns used in the ceremony seems to me like an attempt to keep questions of British colonial exploitation and the royal family\u2019s involvement with that exploitation at a minimum,\u201d said Danielle Kinsey, an assistant professor of history at ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ University in Ottawa, Ontario, who focuses on the history of 19th-century Britain and its empire. \u201cThey can\u2019t escape that history.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Kohinoor \u2014 also spelled Koh-i-noor \u2014 was first set in Queen Mary\u2019s crown and was later replaced with a quartz crystal replica, while the original was moved to the queen mother\u2019s crown, where it is now, according to the Royal Collection Trust<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Cullinan, the world\u2019s largest diamond, was discovered<\/a> in South Africa in 1905 at a mine near one of three capital cities, Pretoria. The diamond was cut into nine large stones and about 100 small ones, including the 530-carat Star of Africa, which is set in the Sovereign\u2019s Sceptre With Cross. The scepter is presented to the sovereign during their coronation<\/a>. All of the gems are part of the Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Cullinan was gifted<\/a> to the royal family in 1907 as a symbolic gesture to mend Great Britain and the South African Republic\u2019s relationship after a war between the two erupted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kinsey said the stone spotlights European exploitation of resources like diamonds and gold in Africa \u2014 and its long-lasting impact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhile the royal family\u2019s acquisition of the Cullinan is on solider legal grounds than the acquisition of the Kohinoor,\u201d she said, \u201cit still brings up the question of the royal family\u2019s involvement with the development of diamond resource exploitation in southern Africa.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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