Of Crowns and Legends

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Anand, Anita (16 February 2016). "The Koh-i-Noor diamond is in Britain illegally. But it should still stay there". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 13 April 2016 . Retrieved 8 April 2016. Jamal, Momin (26 February 2017). "Kohinoor's story: from treachery to treasury". Daily Times . Retrieved 19 June 2018. Login, Lena Campbell (1890). Sir John Login and Duleep Singh. Punjab: Languages Dept. Archived from the original on 7 April 2010 . Retrieved 1 April 2016. The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British India and its Dependencies. Vol.27. W. H. Allen & Co. 1838. p.177.

de Logu, Simona (23 August 1995). "Dog kills Tower of London raven". UPI . Retrieved 30 January 2021. Crown Jewels". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Vol.211. United Kingdom: House of Commons. 16 July 1992. col.944W. Archived from the original on 10 August 2016 . Retrieved 30 June 2016. Valentine Ball in Jean Baptiste Tavernier, Travels in India, 1889, Macmillan, vol. II, Appendix, plate VI. Ashlesh on the other hand, pushes joy to its hideous extremes, feeding on the dark, inverted aspects of the emotion, like delirium and obsession. Wielding Ashlesh's immense power comes with a price, as their current holder, Nilah, sacrificed her ability to feel anything outside of joy and was erased from the memories of all who knew her. She can, on the other hand, observe that she is feeling other things, or that she wants to feel other things.

Sax found the one early mention of importation of captive ravens in the 1918 book The Tower from Within by George Younghusband. Younghusband stated that the ravens were provided by the 4th Earl of Dunraven (1841–1926). The second Earl of Dunraven had been a patron of the druidic scholar, poet, and forger Iolo Morganwg, who convinced the family that their castle in Glamorgan had been the original residence of the raven-god Bran, actually an early king. The Earls may have thought of the ravens as avatars of Bran, and wished to assert a spiritual claim over the Tower. [43] :36–40 McLean, Max (19 May 2021). "Results of public vote to name Tower of London's baby raven announced". Evening Standard . Retrieved 26 February 2023.

On 15 September 1843, both Sher Singh and prime minister Dhian Singh were assassinated in a coup led by Ajit Singh Sandhawalia. However, the next day in a counter coup led by Dhian's son Hira Singh the assassins were killed. Aged 24, Hira Singh succeeded his father as prime minister, and installed the five-year old Duleep Singh as emperor. The Koh-i-noor was now fastened to the arm of the child emperor in court at Lahore. Duleep Singh and his mother empress Jind Kaur, had till then resided in Jammu, the kingdom governed by Gulab Singh. [11] a b c d Kennedy, Maev (15 November 2004). "Tower's raven mythology may be a Victorian flight of fantasy". The Guardian. London.Roger S. Loomis (January 1922). "Tristan and the house of Anjou". Modern Language Review. 17 (1): 24–30. doi: 10.2307/3714327. JSTOR 3714327. Example of arms attributed to Jesus from the 15th-century Hyghalmen Roll, based on the instruments of the Passion

On 29 March 1849, following the conclusion of the Second Anglo-Sikh War, the Kingdom of Punjab was formally annexed to Company rule, and the Last Treaty of Lahore was signed, officially ceding the Koh-i-Noor to Queen Victoria and the Maharaja's other assets to the company. Article III of the treaty read:Lafont, Jean Marie (2002). Maharaja Ranjit Singh: Lord of the Five Rivers. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-566111-8.