Of his many excursions in the capital city, the Shah appeared most enthralled by the Crown Jewels in the Tower of London. His own dress tunics were embellished with magnificent diamonds and rubies. He was most interested in the legendary
Koh-i-Noor diamond that had briefly been in the Persian treasury in the eighteenth century. He witnessed Queen Victoria wearing it as a brooch. The Shah was also most struck by a waxwork of the Emperor Napoleon III on his deathbed in Madame Tussaud’s wax museum. He commented on the uniform that was tailored by Poole’s as was the late Emperor’s wardrobe.
