Marie Antoinette's diamond bracelets sell for more than £6 million at auction after being in family for 200 years

Her surviving daughter Marie Therese, Madame Royale, received the jewels on her arrival in Austria, the British auction house said, and they had been kept within royal lineage until now.Marie Antoinette was the last Queen of France before the French revolution

In a 1785 portrait by Adolf Ulrich Wertmuller, which is now on show at the National Museum in Stockholm, Marie Antoinette is depicted wearing the bracelets. In the same auction, an art deco ruby and diamond bracelet, ordered by the Duke of Windsor from Cartier, and given to his wife Wallis Simpson on their first wedding anniversary failed to find a new owner.

The pre-sale estimate for the Duchess of Windsor bracelet was between 1 million and 2 million Swiss Francs .This artwork is by an unknown artist depicting Marie Antoinette as she is taken to the guillotine at the height of the French Revolution October 16, 1793 On Wednesday, as part of regular Geneva jewellery auctions, rival house Sotheby's is set to put under the hammer a 26.8-carat oval sapphire surrounded by diamonds, and matching ear clips that once belonged to Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia and were whisked out of Russia during the country's 1917 revolution., worn during his 2004 victory over the LA clippers.

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