The crown contains a controversial African diamond. More DANIEL LEAL/AFP via Getty Images/Justin Tallis - WPA Pool/Getty Images The royal family's possession of the diamonds, among other precious ...

The most important piece in the Crown Jewels and a ... also known as the Second Star of Africa, and the 170-carat Black Prince ruby, which has been part of the royal collection since it was ...

The diamond, which weighs 530 carats, was discovered in South Africa in 1905 ... it is kept with the other crown jewels in the Tower of London. Sign up for CNN’s Royal News, a weekly dispatch ...

8 has also renewed the conversation of the royal family's ties ... and displayed in a South African museum,” the petition says. The Imperial State Crown also features 2,868 diamonds, 17 ...

It will instead feature three other diamonds from the royal collection ... Star of Africa and the Second Star of Africa — were incorporated into the crown jewels collection.

All of the gems are part of the Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom. The Cullinan was gifted to the royal family in 1907 as a symbolic gesture to mend Great Britain and the South African Republic ...

who make up nearly a fifth of South Africa's population of 60 million people. Amabutho, or royal regiments, clad in traditional skirts, leopard skin tops, and carrying shields and sticks chanted ...