Many people who hear about the Hope Diamond believes that it’s cursed, and they actually have a good reason to think so. As the story goes, after Jean Tavernier, the French Merchant that first got the stone, sold it to King Louis XIV, and later it was passed on to his descendant, King Louis XVI. Legend has it that he and his queen were beheaded during their Revolution because of the curse. Later, also during the revolution, thieves stole the Hope Diamond from the treasury. There is lots of gaps in it’s history, but one known part is that when it went into Evalyn McLean possession, her son was killed at age nine, and and her daughter killed herself.
