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What Jewels, The British Royals Hold



Source: BBC
With a collective net worth of $88 billion, British Royals are one of the most wealthiest families around the world.

British Monarch, Queen Elizabeth || is monarch of 16 Commonwealth realms:

The United Kingdom 
Antigua and Barbuda 
Australia 
The Bahamas 
Barbados 
Belize
Canada 
Grenada
Jamaica
New Zealand 
Papua New Guinea 
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 
Solomon Islands 
Tuvalu

Royal family owns several palaces:


Source: Wikipedia 
Buckingham Palace : 775 rooms
Clarence House 
St. James Palace 
Kensington Palace : 547 room
Ivy Cottage 
Wren House 
Nottingham Cottage 
Windsor Castle 
Frogmore House
Frogmore Cottage
The Royal Lodge : 30 room home 
Sandringham House : 19000 acre
Anmer Hall : 10 Bedroom 
The Palace Of Holyroodhouse
Balmoral Castle : 50000 acres, 150 buildings 
Birkhall
Hillsborough Castle : 100 acres
Highgrove House 
Llwynywermod : 215 Acre
Gatcombe Park 
Bagshot Park : 87 acres, 57 room

Royal collection:

It is made up of over one million objects including 7,000 paintings, over 150,000 works on paper, this including 30,000 watercolours and drawings, 450,000 photographs, 6 Rembrandts, 50 Canaletto, hundreds of drawings of Leonardo Da Vinci, paintings of Peter Paul Rubens, 24 Michelangelo’s drawing, The calling of the saints Peter and Andrew , Paintings of Joshua Reynolds, Paintings of Thomas Lawrence Paintings of Canaletto, Paintings of Van Dyke, Portrait of a lady by Peter Lely as well as tapestries, furniture, ceramics, textiles, carriages, weapons, armour, jewellery, clocks, musical instruments, tableware, plants, manuscripts, books, and sculptures.

Jewel House: ( Estimated worth of $ 4 billion)

The collection contains 23,578 stones including
Cullinan I (530 carats (106 g)), the largest clear cut diamond in the world
Cullinan II (317 carats (63 g))
the Stuart Sapphire
St Edward's Sapphire
the Black Prince's Ruby 
The Koh-i-Noor diamond (105 carats (21 g))

Crown:
St Edward’s Crown ( 444 stones including amethysts, garnets, peridots, rubies, sapphires, topazes, tourmalines and zirconia )

Imperial State Crown ( 2868 diamonds, 273 pears, 17 sapphires, 11 emeralds and 5 rubies) : It also includes prestigious stones like Cullinan || , Black Prince’s Ruby, Stuart sapphire, St. Edward’s Sapphire 

Consort crown: 
Crown of Queen Elizabeth ( 2800 diamonds including Koh-I-Noor )
Queen Mary’s Crown: ( 2200 diamonds including Cullinans 3 and 4 )
Crown of Queen Alexandra ( 3000 diamonds )

Price of Wales Coronets
Queen Victoria’s Small Diamond Crown 
The Imperial Crown of India 

The wealth of British Royals are extremely vast. They hold the biggest collection of arts.


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