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However huge their historical and cultural value, crowns and diadems can easily be broken apart and sold in bits.

From BBC • Oct. 19, 2025

According to the authorities, eight items were taken including diadems, necklaces, ear-rings and brooches.

From BBC • Oct. 19, 2025

Some were jewel-encrusted diadems worn by Angkor royalty as far back as the 9th century.

From New York Times • Feb. 20, 2023

As for the people, they will get help wherever they can; prayers and spells and amulets combine ankhs, crosses, old deities, seven-point diadems, the archangel Gabriel.

From The Guardian • Oct. 30, 2015

Beneath her fingernails, the frost makes billions of tiny diadems and coronas on the slats of the bench, a lattice of dumbfounding complexity.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr