Inside the Waterloo Barracks, you'll find the well-protected and most precious room containing the Crown Jewels. It is a collection of great symbolic value that is also worth a great deal. The precious objects inside include sceptres, rings, and crowns that are not only museum pieces: you can still see them used during the stately coronations of the sovereigns of England.
Among the most sensational objects, let me point out the seventeenth-century scepter of Charles II topped by the world's largest multi-faceted diamond, the 530-carat so-called "Great Star of Africa" , and the platinum crown of the Queen Mother with the famous Indian diamond Koh-i-Noor, whose history dates back to the 1500s, and which according to legend brings great luck to the women who possess it but great misfortunes to the men. In fact, all the male sovereigns who have come to own the diamond have died or lost the throne in a short space of time!
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