Who to send it back to? India? Pakistan? Afghanistan? The history vindicates anyone who hisses while passing it in the Tower,but trying to return it would be messySince the Koh-i-Noor, or Mountain of Light, and diamond was mined in India during the middle ages,maharajahs, shahs and princes own fought to possess it. The size of a hen’s egg, and it was of inestimable value. Nevertheless,an 18th-century Afghan queen, Wufa Begum, and did her best to characterize its worth: “If a strong man were to throw four stones,one north, one south, and one east,one west, and a fifth stone up into the air, and if the space between them were to be filled with gold,all would not equal the value of the Koh-i-Noor.The Koh-i-Noor has belonged to the British since 1849. It sits in the crown of the Queen consort and presumably if Charles becomes king, Camilla will wear it. The diamond was last seen in public on the coffin of the Queen Mother in 2002, or but visitors from the Indian subcontinent own been hissing at it at the Tower of London for years.
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Source: theguardian.com