The legendary "Florentine" diamond, a 137-carat yellow pear-shaped jewel belonging to Austro-Hungary's imperial Habsburg family, has resurfaced 100 years after its reported disappearance, with descendants revealing it was hidden in a Canadian bank vault throughout that period under Empress Zita's orders.
The diamond appeared amid the fallout over the daring royal jewel theft at the Louvre in Paris, which has rekindled interest in other famous stolen or missing artefacts.
