THE PATIALA NECKLACE
The history of the Patiala necklace is an adventure that could have been written by Kipling or Forster – a story of the decline of Britain’s empire in India and the waning fortunes of a dying princely order, a story shot through with themes of fantasy, uncertainty, and loss. It traces, —from the date of its creation in 1925 when it was commissioned from Cartier by an Indian prince, Maharajadhiraja Bhupindar Singh of Patiala, to the present day— the history of a fabulous diamond necklace.