Category: Treasure Theories

• The "Stolen" Crown Jewels

  This theory claimed that the Crown Jewels displayed in the Tower of London were not the real regalia but expertly made replicas of glass and paste, while the genuine jewels had been secretly sold to cover royal debts. The theory drew plausibility from the real destruction and sale of the medieval regalia in 1649, the remaking of the regalia after the Restoration, and the strict security around the current collection. In conspiracy-oriented versions, those facts become evidence that substitution occurred again in secret.