William Drimple
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He hides it in a crack in a prison where in a prison cell where he's being incarcerated soon after being blinded with a red hot needle.
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the the diamond disappears for a while but it turns up a local mullah finds it where it's been hidden and uses it as a paperweight on his desk he doesn't know what it is so for a while the paper the coming or the most priceless jewel in the world is being used just as a provincial mullus paperweight which is a very nice detail i found in a afghan chronicle um
shah suja his brother gets hold of it and he is according to the afghan chronicles tortured by the king of the sikhs ranjit singh to release it to him this is a detail that the proud patriotic sikhs strongly they don't like the story at all but it's they don't like it they say it didn't happen in the afghan accounts and so i'm sticking to that story
This plays out to this day.
Even today on my Twitter, rival parties have been claiming it's theirs.
The Sikhs have been saying it's theirs, while people in Orissa have been saying it's theirs.
Why would the people in Orissa think they have a right to a Danita?
So this is the treasurer who's called Beliram.
And he hides it after Anderson dies to stop it going to Orissa.
See, I'm not a Sikh or a Punjabi, so I think I'm more neutral about this than you.
And I'd say that the actual claim of Orissa is actually quite a good one and that he did give it to Jagannath Temple.
Because it's written in your will before you had a stroke.
Your version.
You called it the kind of roulette wheel of death or something.
You go through about 20 casualties, 20 fatalities in about 10 minutes.
The daughter of the king.
And bizarrely, last summer, I was staying with my brother in Scotland.
And it turned out that the receipt for the Koh-i-Noor was in the next door fancy house downstairs.
It is no easy thing to get it out of the country.