La Peregrina – Annemarie Jordan Gschwend

A Renaissance crown jewel, Spanish royal portraits, rival claimants and a Valentine’s gift from Richard Burton to Elizabeth Taylor: drawing on decades of archival research in five European countries, author Annemarie Jordan Gschwend follows La Peregrina from its discovery in the Gulf of Panama in 1577 through more than four centuries of owners. The book publishes the pearl’s full documentary history for the first time and confirms that Taylor’s pearl is the genuine royal jewel.