The founder of her house was Humbert the White-handed, who ruled Savoy in the 11th century. Among her ancestors ... the Shah was silent on his Peacock Throne. But Iranian court circles pointed ...

In the early 17th century, he ruled a kingdom stretching across what is now India and Pakistan from the Peacock Throne, a seat encrusted with diamonds, rubies, emeralds, sapphires and a 50-carat ...

Sunday Times probes. The mystery of the Peacock Throne lingers on. This ornate seat once stood inside the magnificent Diwan-i-Khas in the 17th-century Red Fort, a testimony to the wealth and power ...

Public Domain The Peacock Throne, or ‘Mayurāsana’ as it was known, was not just a seat of authority but a marvel of design and embellishment. It was commissioned in the early 17th century and ...

Sujit Saraf's novel The Peacock Throne, for all its farcical plot and sardonic tone, gives a more truthful picture of twenty-first-century India than anything in the earnest pages of the Wall ...