Anita Arnott
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The last time I think it was seen in public was in the crown of the queen mother during her funeral when it was placed on top of the coffin and people filed past.
It is in the Tower of London.
You can see it if you want to see it there.
Oh, well, so I learned all my best swear words at the Tower of London because when you used to go, when anyone used to come over to visit, you'd take them because they'd want to see the Koh-i-Noor.
And the swearing that would occur in front of the glass from your Indians, your Pakistanis, your Afghans and many, many more saying,
It's ours.
Thieves, thieves, thieves.
This is ours.
You know, how dare they?
The only thing that achieved was it taught many brown people how to moonwalk.
That is literally all that was achieved by the walkway.
They did not understand that uncles and aunties are very good at moonwalking and swearing at the same time.
So that is what happened.
Anyway...
So what happens now is that you've got this diamond that should have been recast in Queen Camilla's crown or coronet for the coronation, but she broke with tradition, a tradition that stretches as far back as the coroner's history in Britain.
After it is rumoured, reading a certain book.
Sources close to the palace lead us to believe.
Anywho, so that's where we are now.
So Mamdani went... So let's talk about what's happening today.
So Mamdani's saying, give it back to India.