Anita Arnott
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Podcast Appearances
And passed it up the drain.
Yeah, that's what he did.
But also, but it was conflated with other things.
So some people thought, you know, they might have been describing the Orlov diamond and calling it the Koh-i-Noor or some other German calling it the Koh-i-Noor.
But this one is actually called Koh-i-Noor.
Now, just to remind you, Koh-i-Noor means mountain of light.
That is the translation of the word in Persian.
And so that first time where it's written down by Marvi as Koh-i-Noor, and he describes it as being on top of the peacock throne.
Now, the peacock throne is not, as you might imagine it, a large chair replete with gems and diamonds.
It's more an ice cream kiosk of an edifice.
It is the most blingy thing you've ever seen.
It's encrusted in all of the best jewels.
It is replete with the very best gems that the moguls have.
And Marvy talks about these peacocks at the top of the kiosk, at the top of the throne.
And one of its heads is the mountain of light.
But it wasn't, Willie, the diamonds that we put in rings these days, they looked very different then.
Can you sort of describe what it would have looked like in that era?
But when he got his hands on the Koh-i-Noor diamond willy, did it make him happy?
Was he a happy man having claimed this?
God, it's so bad.