Folks in Africa and India have known as for the return of a few of the crown jewels after Queen Elizabeth II‘s demise.

The queen died on Thursday at age 96, Buckingham Palace confirmed.

The crown jewels embody a set of a few of the world’s most uncommon and costly gems.

Two of the jewels individuals are calling for to be returned are the Koh-i-noor diamond from India and the Nice Star of Africa, estimated to be price about $400 million every.

Their acquisition is steeped in controversy given the historical past of British colonialism.

Folks have now known as on the royal household to make use of the Queen’s demise as a possibility to return the jewels.

“Can India get again the kohinoor diamond/every thing within the British museum that was stolen?” wrote one particular person on Twitter.

One other stated: “so when will these colonizers give us again that kohinoor diamond they took from us?!??”

A 3rd wrote: “Britain ought to return “The Nice Star of Africa” again to Africa in South Africa the place it belongs or they are going to without end be thieves.”

Most likely the world’s most well-known diamond, the Koh-i-noor weighed 105.6 carats when it was present in southern India, probably as early because the 1300s.

It takes delight of place on the prime of the crown made for the Queen Mom in 1937 and many individuals have claimed possession of it over the centuries together with Mughal emperors, shahs of Iran, emirs of Afghanistan, and Sikh maharajas.

Britain got here in to possession of the Koh-i-noor when the East India Firm took the jewel from deposed ten-year-old Maharaja Duleep Singh in 1849.

It was a part of the Treaty of Lahore, which declared it have to be surrendered to Queen Victoria.

The Cullinan diamond was found in what’s now South Africa and was the most important uncut diamond ever discovered at 3,106 carats, which is a bit more than one pound.

It was subsequently lower into 9 main stones and 96 smaller brilliants, with the British monarchy proudly owning numerous them.

The Nice Star of Africa sits within the Queen’s sceptre, whereas one other stone, often known as the Cullinan II or Second Star of Africa, is about within the entrance band of the Imperial State Crown.

The stones that make up the Cullinan diamond are valued in complete at $2 billion.

The queen additionally owned the Cullinan’s subsequent two largest stones which she had set in a brooch and have become often known as “Granny’s Chips.”

The Imperial State Crown, together with a sceptre, serves because the principal crown for the British monarch.

The present state crown was made in 1937 for the queen’s father, King George VI, and relies on the crown made in 1837 for Queen Victoria. It comprises numerous the British monarchy’s most historic jewels—together with St Edward’s Sapphire, the oldest gemstone within the assortment.

This blue stone has been set into the middle of the crown and is claimed to have belonged to Edward the Confessor, who ascended to the throne in 1042.

In complete the the crown is about with 2,868 diamonds, 17 sapphires, 11 emeralds, 269 pearls, and 4 rubies.

Nearly all of the crown jewels are reserved to be used within the coronation ceremony, however the Imperial State Crown was worn by the queen yearly of her reign for the State Opening of Parliament till 2017.

In 2019, it was determined that the crown was too heavy for the monarch, who was then in her 90s, and she or he wore the George VI Diamond Diadem as an alternative.