01 Trashy Royals: La Peregrina, A Cursed Pearl's 500-Year Journey from the Colonies, to Europe's Royal Houses, to Hollywood
Trashy Divorces
Hemlock Creatives
4.5 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2021
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to our new season 10 mid-week drops, Trashy Royals! Today, Alicia has the tale of a possibly cursed pearl, La Peregrina, which was the largest pearl ever found when it was pulled from Panamanian waters. It would spend centuries bothering Europe's first families before an English Duke gave it to Sotheby's for auction in 1969, and the legend of La Peregrina gained a brand new chapter with a different kind of royalty.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to a special Wednesday drop on trashy divorces. No need to check your phones. It's not Sunday. Don't worry about checking your calendars. Not Sunday. It is Wednesday. Happy |
| 0:21.3 | middle of the week, everybody. Happy hump day. Happy middle of the week. We're doing a thing this season. |
| 0:26.4 | We are doing a thing this season, Stacey. Welcome to trashy Royals. Every Wednesday throughout season 10, we're going to be dropping midweek trashy little stories for you, just pieces of trash candy, all about some trashy royals that connect to some of the other stories we've told. |
| 0:46.9 | Today, we are starting with the story of one of the most, if not the most famous pearl in the world. |
| 0:54.4 | Mini pearl? |
| 0:55.8 | No, a different one. |
| 0:58.3 | La Peregrina. |
| 0:59.4 | La Peregrina. |
| 1:00.9 | Sounds fancy. |
| 1:01.9 | This jewel is going to take us from 16th century European royalty. |
| 1:07.4 | It has a pretty wild ride. |
| 1:09.6 | It's going to take us all the way through to Hollywood |
| 1:12.7 | royalty in its voyage over time. Okay. And it is a voyage. This pearl, known as La Peregrina, |
| 1:21.9 | which translates to the wanderer or the traveler. It is appropriately named and maybe also cursed. |
| 1:31.3 | It's fun. I do love some cursed jewelry. |
| 1:35.2 | La Peregrina has talked about is the largest natural pearl that has ever been found. |
| 1:40.7 | This pearl is ginormous. It will hold the record for world's largest pearl for like 300 |
| 1:46.0 | years. Wow. La Peregrina comes in at a whopping 56 carrots. 11 grams of a pearl. 2.5 centimeters in length, |
| 2:06.5 | 1.7 centimeters across. It's pear-shaped. It's a big old pearl. So not a mini pearl? Not a mini pearl at all. A major pearl. In jewelry |
| 2:14.5 | symbology, pearls will signify purity, rarity, and power. |
| 2:20.9 | This big-ass pear-shaped beauty of a pearl is found in Panama. |
| 2:27.7 | At that time, Panama is a Spanish colony. |
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