FRENCH CROWN JEWELS AND MARIE ANTOINETTE'S DIAMONDS
If Jewels Could Talk with Carol Woolton
Carol Woolton
4.8 • 88 Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
In this first episode of our Marie Antoinette two-part special, Carol speaks to Dr Sarah Grant, Senior Curator of Prints at London's V&A museum and curator of the recent exhibition Marie Antoinette Style.
www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/marie-antoinette
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Produced by Natasha Cowan @tashonfash
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is brought to you by libish coloured diamond specialists. |
| 0:05.0 | Did you know that only one stone in 10,000 discovered is a coloured diamond? |
| 0:16.0 | She is this perfect storm of sort of, you know, fascinating, attractive and fashionable person |
| 0:25.4 | combined with this, you know, great tragic life story. |
| 0:29.1 | And then also... |
| 0:29.8 | It's that sort of... |
| 0:30.9 | You have to have that tragedy mixed in with it to make somebody iconic in the future. |
| 0:36.8 | It's sort of the Princess Diana factor, isn't it really? |
| 0:39.5 | It is, and they were almost the same age. |
| 0:41.3 | I think Princess Diana was 36 when she died and married to that's 37. |
| 0:44.7 | Yes, yes. |
| 0:45.7 | I'm Carol Horton, the voice of jewellery. |
| 0:48.7 | Welcome to If Jewels Could Talk. |
| 0:51.4 | I'm an author and broadcaster and the woman who initiated the role of jewelry editor |
| 0:56.4 | at magazines like Tatler and Vogue. This is a podcast for everyone, for people who do like |
| 1:02.9 | jewelry, for people who don't realize they like jewelry, and anyone intrigued by fascinating facts, |
| 1:08.4 | new ideas and forgotten histories. So join me as I tell sparkly tales |
| 1:13.6 | and meet all sorts of people, delving into four centuries of jewellery culture and investigate |
| 1:20.0 | what's happening now. Today we're talking about the most fashionable queen in history, |
| 1:30.7 | Morrie Antoinette, whose glamour and dazzling diamond style has continued to have an iconic appeal through the generations. |
| 1:39.7 | And keep listening because this is the first episode of two. |
| 1:43.3 | Next, we're going to talk in depth about the affair of the diamond necklace, |
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