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The Queen of Diamonds
The Queen of Diamonds centres on the Affair of the Diamond Necklace, the scandal that damaged Marie Antoinette’s reputation in the years before the French Revolution. A fabulously expensive necklace becomes the object of a conspiracy involving Jeanne de Valois, Cardinal de Rohan and the enigmatic Cagliostro, while the queen herself is drawn into the public outrage despite not having ordered the jewels. Plaidy turns the historical fraud into a story of greed, deception and political consequence.
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