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flag A 137-carat diamond lost since 1919 has been found in a Canadian bank vault, hidden for over a century.

flag A 137-carat yellow pear-shaped diamond known as the Florentine Diamond, believed lost since 1919 after the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, has been found hidden in a Canadian bank vault for over a century. flag The gem, once owned by Florence’s Medici family and later the Habsburgs, was secretly transported to Switzerland and then to Canada during World War II to escape Nazi persecution. flag Empress Zita, widow of Emperor Charles I, entrusted only her sons with its location and instructed them to keep it hidden for 100 years after his 1922 death. flag Now, her descendants have confirmed its safekeeping and plan to publicly display it in a Canadian museum as a tribute to the country’s wartime refuge, with no intention to sell it.

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