Medal attaches 300 cursed diamonds: who owns the tragedy!

When it comes to owning it, the owner will be lucky, but all are the opposite.

In March 1798, it was carried out mysteriously, now being a province of the Ottoman Empire, to fight for influence with the British Empire. Many battles between these two empires broke out fiercely.

Battle of the Nile (1789)

In it, a fierce battle in the night at Aboukir Bay in northern Egypt caused many ships to sink and countless casualties, on the ship HMS Vanguard, Admiral Horatio Nelson , 29, was seriously injured. at the beginning.

British admiral Horatio Nelson.(Photo Getty Images).

It was thought that his life had lost his weight, but the final victory belonged to England the following morning (August 1798) when only four of the enemy's 17 ships escaped.

Later, the battle known as the Battle of the Nile, was a great naval battle that took place between the Anglo-French army and the expeditionary army of Napoleon Bonaparte, "hundreds of victories", had to lose the battle. Since then, the Second Alliance has been initiated against France.

After the battle, Admiral Horatio Nelson became the hero who received the deep gratitude of the Turkish king who ruled Egypt. The most prestigious award of the Ottoman Empire for him is the most honorable medal Chelengk wears in his hat (see picture below).

Chelengk Medal.(Wikipedia photos).

This medal is awarded by the Turkish king and represents the courage and honor that the recipient will become extremely famous as a hero. You can see it on the admiral's hat in the picture above!

Usually this medal is not precious, but this time to show the gratitude and appreciation of the admiral's victory, the Turkish king had installed more than 300 white diamonds on 13 decorations. , each one represents a French warship!

The center of the badge is a star that can rotate and reflect candles throughout the beautiful room, but now we cannot admire its beauty because after the World War 2 it was stolen from the Maritime National Museum, Greenwich, England.

The story of a medal that is "cursed" brings death to the owner

This valuable medal is attached with real diamonds and is said to bring luck to its owner.

But the new discovery in the study of Symbolic & Chase goldsmith, London, when creating its copy for display in the London capital, shows the opposite.

Accordingly, the new book on Chelengk also suggests that the medal is the cause of Nelson's death as a scary medal!

The medal not only did not bring luck to Nelson but also caused him more trouble.

When he returned to England in November 1800, he thought he would be welcomed as a national hero, but King George III had to be humiliated when he made the mistake of wearing an illogical medal.

This made the insignia stand out even more than the King's Order of the Bath medal and was worn on his cloak earlier, so King George III was unhappy even if it was just accidental, no deliberate.

The medal made Nelson's family disperse, Nelson's death and his death

The daughter of a blacksmith is Emma Hamilton but with a beautiful beauty, she is the wife of marquis William Hamilton, the muse of the artist George Romney but also deeply loved by Nelson even though Lord Nelson also had a wife. Lady Fanny Nelson.

She wanted a beautiful diamond-encrusted medallion worn on her neck that Nelson was given, the sneaky affair of the two being revealed when she repeatedly took the medal that belonged to Nelson despite his obstruction.

Emma Hamilton.(Photo of The Guardian).

As a result, the two had a daughter in 1801 and his family divorced his wife Fanny, the tragedy not stopping there when he was in debt due to Emma's wasteful spending.

Many times I had to borrow money from friends to repay the debt, but I couldn't go on forever, finally deciding to sell the Chelengk - which represented honor, the courage of a hero.

In September 1805, he decided to sell a part of the diamond on the medal when he and his friend, John Lee, a naval lieutenant on board HMS Swiftsure, also attended the battle of the Nile to a gem trading place.

About a month later, he died at the Battle of Trafalgar, which was thought to be due to the gleaming medal on his hat that helped the gunner to aim precisely at his head. The medal later belonged to his brother William, whose two children were Horaxe and Charlotte.

Second owner and family tragedy

The disaster struck William when in 1808, two years after he owned Chelengk - he and his wife Sarah lost their 19-year-old son Horaxe because of typhus. In 1828, his wife Sarah died and he married another wife but did not have any more children.

Finally, six years later, he died of a car accident in Salisbury, after which his daughter Charlotte was involved in the trouble of inheriting Chelengk legally with Nelson's sister's family, Susannah.

As a result, she received the inheritance right, but after her death in 1873, General Alexander Hood Viscount Bridport's son faced a financial collapse when investing in property in an illegal deal.

Copy of the medal.(Photo of The Guardian).

In 1895, he was forced to auction Chelengk, a medal owned by a banker Constance Eyre Matcham, but the Great Depression in 1920 - 1921 also caused the medal to be sold again.

Heiress Lady Sarita Barclay, African explorer widow Herbert Ward bought it and gave it back to the country as a way to remember his husband. Seven years later, the medal became a "star" in the gallery of the Maritime National Museum.

Thinking that his "life" would settle here, but a professional thief named George Chatham stole the badge in the summer of 1951, since then no one knew where it went and belonged. who, the story of the cursed badge ends temporarily.

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