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Some also point to The Koh-i-Noor, seized by the British East India Company and now part of the Crown Jewels, with many Indians viewing it as stolen.

The Queen also faced sensitivities over what she wore at the Coronation, with a diplomatic decision not to use a crown containing the Koh-i-Noor diamond, which has had rival international claims to ownership.

As a boy, Duleep Singh had been exiled to England from India after his kingdom was annexed by the British in 1849, with the priceless Koh-i-Noor diamond handed to them under the terms of a punitive treaty.

Two years later, he expanded on the journal article with “The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance,” a 448-page tour through its invention and evolution — with brands like Faber-Castell, Dixon Ticonderoga and Koh-I-Noor among them — that included a chapter about the pencil-making business of Henry David Thoreau’s family in Concord, Mass.

This includes the controversial koh-i-noor diamond, whose ownership is disputed and which was not included in the Coronation.