Spectacular gems from the Queen's private collection

It is the most valuable – and glittering - exhibition ever created at Buckingham Palace. Ten thousand priceless diamonds on display, many for the first time ever, to mark the Queen’s Jubilee.

From the diminutive diamond crown worn by Queen Victoria throughout her widowhood, to the breath-taking Coronation Necklace, featuring a staggering 22.48 carat pendant, the exhibition features some of the most spectacular pieces from the monarch’s private collection.

Diamond Jubilee: A Jubilee Celebration exhibition which forms part of the summer opening of Buckingham Palace includes more than 10,000 diamonds set in works acquired by six monarchs over three centuries.

The Diamond Diadem Tiara, worn by The Queen.

Queen Victoria's Fringe Brooch is hung at the Queen's Gallery, 

Buckingham Palace.

A diamond-set Coronation Fan, made for Queen Alexandra at the time of the coronation in 1902, part of the 'Diamonds: A Jubilee Celebration' exhibition.

Caroline de Guitaut, Curator of Royal Collections

Many items from the Queen's personal collection join those chosen 

for their artistic significance and historical importance for the exhibition. 

A vitrine containing Queen Mary's Girls of Great Britain and Ireland

Tiara at Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace in London.

A table snuff box owned by Frederick the Great of Prussia, incorporating

nearly 3,000 diamonds, which was purchased by Queen Mary in 1932. 

The Coronation Necklace is among the pieces set to go on display 

at Buckingham Palace.

The hand of a gallery worker is seen behind The Queen's Williamson 

Diamond Brooch one of the array of diamonds worn by the Queen 

and other monarchs over the past 200 years.

A view of the Cullinan VII (Delhi Durbar Durbar Necklace and 

Cullinan Pendant) displayed at the Queens gallery.

The Diamond Diadem contains some of the 10,000 diamonds set to go

on display at Buckingham Palace.

A Jaipur Sword and Scabbard, set with 719 diamonds weighing a

total of 2,000 carats, originally presented to King Edward VII for his 

coronation in 1902.

4 Extraordinary Hanging Hotels Pool

4 Extraordinary Hanging Hotels Pool:

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Adelphi hotel, Melbourne 

Colorful Starfishes

Colorful Starfishes:

Starfish are among the most familiar and beautiful of marine animals. About 1,800 living species of starfish occur in all the oceans, including the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic and Southern Oceans regions. Starfish occur across a broad depth range from the intertidal to abyssal depths (>6000 m). Their habitats range from tropical coral reefs, rocks, shell brash, gravel, mud and sand, to kelp forests, seagrass meadows and the deep-sea floor.

World's Most Enigmatic Places

World's Most Enigmatic Places:

Machu Picchu

This is one of the most preserved places of Peru and was apparently built in 1450 CE.

Baalbeck

This place is famous for the three temples and the wall that surrounds them. The wall is built with the Stone of the Pregnant Woman, some of them weighing as much as 1000 tons!

Easter Island

It is famous for the stone structures that are present there. Some that weigh more than 86 tons. There were actually so many of these structures that they were later moved onto the perimeter of the island and places upon stone slabs!

Stonehenges

Built in 2500 BC, the Stonehenge is one of the most amazing prehistoric monuments. It has been remodeled quite a lot but it still maintains the same spell bounding factor in itself!

The pyramid of Ghiza and Sphinx

Although the pyramids have been the center of attention for quite sometime now, one still wonders and gets awed at the spectacular magnificence of these structures and what maths would have been involved when coming up with them!

Underwater ruins of Japan

In 1995 a swimmer in Japan went further across the shore and found what appeared to be a whole lot of man made structures under the water that were found to be 5000 years old! Amazing isn’t it!

The Stone Spheres

Since the 1930's in Costa Rica, archeologists have been coming across these stone spheres in all different sizes and some as heavy as 16 tons!

Chichen Itza

This is supposed to be the place where the famous Mayan civilization presented the rain God with still-beating human hearts as part of a ritual of theirs. The same civilization that predicted the end of the world in 2012. Creepy eh!

Tiahuanacu

This particular structure in Bolivia is famous particularly because it has been standing for 17000 years now and apparently was made using some technology that no longer exists! Interesting I say!

The Nazca Lines

Considered to be one of the most amazingly mysterious places in the world, the Nazca lines in Peru are these huge pictures made in the plains apparently drawn by some giant hand. Given their form, they are certainly not man made!