The marvel remains, how, in the first instance, Marie Antoinette successfully evaded the Revolutionaries in handing the precious necklace to her daughter, Marie Therese Charlotte, afterwards Duchesse d'Angoulime, But it is clear that, henceforth, the necklet was in safe keeping. When the Duchesse d'Angoulime died the treasure was bequeathed to her niece who married the Comte de Chambord. He was known to France legitimists of Henri V., and lived in exile in England, In 1884 the Comtesse de Chambord made her will, leaving the necklet, described therein as "lo, grand collier en tres gros diamants, tenant de la Reine Marie Antoinette," to her niece Marguerite, wife of Charles Vil, of Spain, and known as the Duchesse de Madrid. She was the goddaughter of the Comte de Chambord.
In turn, this lady left the treasure to her two daughters, the Archduchess Blanca and the Princess. of Massimo, who, as stated, have decided to part with it.
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