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Diamond bracelets belonging to Marie Antoinette who entrusted them to a friend for safekeeping before her execution could sell for £3 million.

The stunning jewels, which contain 112 diamonds, were among her few surviving possessions sent from France before she was beheaded.

They were given to her eldest daughter, Marie Theresa, after she and her husband, King Louis XIV, were captured and killed.