Three Hapsburgs and a Reporter Walk into a Canadian Vault (nytimes.com)

I didn’t understand the angle of this article until I realized it was “Times Insider”, a sort of behind the scenes. The actual story is here:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/arts/design/florentine-di...

More details here (playable video of the "pale-yellow" Florentine diamond)

https://highjewellerydream.com/the-unveiling-of-the-habsburg...

How can a paper like the New York Times not even get the name of dynasty right and this across multiple articles?

It's the House of Habsburg, not Hapsburg.

The initial reportage couldn't resist the "lost jewellery" tag when they were never lost, just not openly discussed.

Does anyone look at all these jewels and feel a bit dismissive? I get the idea for why they used to be valuable but they look incredibly gaudy and seem very much like trading beads to the Native Americans or whatever.

I get the historical significance but they don’t look good to me. Like Sue the T Rex looks cool from a distance but up close she’s got all these holes in her skull from parasites. Awful! I appreciate the beast’s skeleton for its significance but her skull is a horrid thing close up aesthetically.

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They are called Habsburg-Lothringen actually. In the passport