A 300-carat necklace, whose diamonds have been linked to a scandal involving the last French queen Marie Antoinette, sold Wednesday for nearly $5 million at a Sotheby's auction in Geneva.

Marie Antoinette was born in Austria in 1755 ... were the original ones at the centre of the "affair of the diamond necklace" scandal in the 1780s, that may have hastened Marie Antoinette's ...

Antoinette realizes that she is unpopular and satirized in public and tries to remake her image, while Jeanne moves forward ...

Marie Antoinette is implicated in the diamond necklace theft and determined to prove her innocence. When Marie Antoinette is implicated in the diamond necklace theft, she is determined to prove ...

Marie Antoinette overhauls her image ... I will make the necklace yours. ♪ [Girls giggling] Don't break up the diamond necklace! I've found a buyer. ♪ Marie, voice-over: Dear Axel, Dr ...

Episode 5: “Enemies Assemble” premieres Sunday, April 20 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV - When Marie Antoinette is implicated in the diamond necklace theft, she is determined to prove her innocence and ...

Everyone knows where the story of Marie Antoinette and King Louis XVI leads ... huge secret that’s weighing on him, and then the Diamond Necklace Affair kicks off, which is historically the ...