Sheikh loses battle to buy Idol’s Eye 70-carat blue diamond
A Qatari sheikh is not entitled to buy a 70-carat gem that is thought to be the world’s largest cut blue diamond, a judge in London has ruled.
The High Court legal battle had set two sides of Qatar’s royal family at loggerheads over whether an offer to sell the Mughal-era diamond known as the Idol’s Eye had ever been made.
The 17th century diamond, formerly owned by an Ottoman sultan and said to represent the eye of a secret idol in the Temple of Benghazi, was, until recently, kept at the London home of the late Sheikh Saud bin Mohammed bin Ali al-Thani, who was Qatari’s culture minister.
Sheikh Hamad bin Abdullah al-Thani at Royal Ascot with Queen Elizabeth II in 2013
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It is held in the name of Elanus, a company owned by a foundation of which
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