{"id":49352,"date":"2022-10-14T21:18:07","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T12:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2022\/oct\/14\/koh-i-noor-diamond-royal-family-india-modi-queen-consort"},"modified":"2022-10-14T21:18:07","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T12:18:07","slug":"painful-memories-what-will-the-royal-family-do-with-the-koh-i-noor-diamond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=49352","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Painful memories\u2019: what will the royal family do with the Koh-i-noor diamond?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s Narenda Modi has suggested Queen Consort should not wear infamous gem on coronation day<\/p>\n<p>The phrase \u201cjewel in the crown\u201d once evoked Charles Dance, Peggy Ashcroft and the sepia-tinted prettiness of a 1980s Granada TV series. Today, in headlines around the world, it is linked to a very modern, and potentially very ugly, diplomatic row.<\/p>\n<p>The Koh-i-noor, Persian for Mountain of Light, is neither the biggest diamond in the world, nor the most beautiful, but it is arguably the most infamous. For many in India it has always represented the humiliation of colonisation. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2022\/oct\/14\/koh-i-noor-diamond-royal-family-india-modi-queen-consort\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s Narenda Modi has suggested Queen Consort should not wear infamous gem on coronation dayThe phrase \u201cjewel in the crown\u201d once evoked Charles Dance, Peggy Ashcroft and the sepia-tinted prettiness of a 1980s Granada TV series. Today, in headlines a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3368,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2230,749,62,1611,433,60,61,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-british-empire","category-colonialism","category-india","category-monarchy","category-narendra-modi","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3368"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49353,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49352\/revisions\/49353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}