Editing Hope Diamond (section)

===Owners and their fates===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ What happened to owners and wearers of the gem
!Date<br>acquired
!Owner
!Fate
!Notes
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|1653
|[[Jean-Baptiste Tavernier]]
|Lived 1605–1689; died age 84
|<ref name=twsI35/><ref name=twsI44bb/> Acquired between 1640 and 1667, possibly 1653<ref name=Kurin1/>
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|1668
|[[Louis XIV of France]]
|Long prosperous reign; lived 1638–1715, died age 76
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|1722
||[[Louis XV of France]]
|Lived 1710–1774, died age 64
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|1775
|[[Louis XVI of France]]
|Guillotined in 1793, age 38
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|1775
|[[Marie Antoinette]]
|Guillotined 1793, age 37
|<ref name=twsI44bb/> Wife of Louis XVI
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|1792<ref name=twsI44bb/>
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|1805?
|King George IV of the United Kingdom
|Lived 1762–1830, died age 67
|Doubtful whether he ever owned it<ref name=twsI35/>
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|1812
|[[Daniel Eliason]], a London jeweler
|Died 17 November 1824, aged 71<ref>{{Cite news |last=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=22 November 1824 |title=Died |work=Evening Mail |location=England |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001316/18241122/016/0004 |url-access=subscription |access-date=14 October 2022 |via=British Newspaper Archive}}</ref>
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|1830
|[[Thomas Hope (1769–1831)|Thomas Hope]]
|Lived 1769–1831, died age 62
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|1839
|Henry Philip Hope
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|1861
|align="left"|[[Henry Pelham-Clinton, 6th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne|Henry Pelham-Clinton, 6th Duke of Newcastle]]
|Lived 1834–1879, died age 45
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|1884
|[[Francis Pelham-Clinton-Hope, 8th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne|Lord Francis Hope]]
|Bankruptcy; forced to sell it; lived 1866–1941 died age 75
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|1894
|[[May Yohé]]
|Musical actress, divorced, remarried several times, died poor, age 72
|<ref name=twsI44bb/> Wife of Lord Francis Hope
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|1901
|Adolph Weil, London jewel merchant
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|1901
|Simon Frankel
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|1908
|Selim Habib (Salomon? Habib)
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|Possibly as agent for Turkish Sultan Hamid
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|1908
|Sultan [[Abdul Hamid II]] of Turkey
|Deposed 1909; died 1918, age 75
|Disputed whether the Sultan ever owned it
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|1909
|Simon Rosenau
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|1910
|[[Pierre Cartier (jeweler)|Pierre Cartier]]
|Lived 1878–1964, died age 86
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|1911
|[[Edward Beale McLean]] and<br>[[Evalyn Walsh McLean]]
|Couple divorced 1932;<br>Edward had mental illness and died aged 51 or 52;<br>Evalyn died aged 60 from pneumonia in 1947
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|1947
|[[Harry Winston]]
|Lived 1896–1978, died age 83
|Jeweler who gave it to Smithsonian 1958<ref name=twsI34/>
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|1958
|[[Smithsonian Institution]]
|Prospered, attendance up
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