Editing Black Prince's Ruby (section)

===Crown Jewels===
[[Henry VIII]]'s inventory of 1521 mentions "a great balas ruby" set in the [[Tudor Crown]],<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/reportspapersofa17asso|chapter=King Henry VIII's Jewel Book|year=1521|first=John|last=Plowfeld|title=Associated Architectural Societies Reports and Papers|volume=17|page=[https://archive.org/details/reportspapersofa17asso/page/158 158]|editor=Edward Trollope|publisher=James Williamson}}</ref> thought to be the Black Prince's Ruby.<ref name="LoachBernard1999">{{cite book|first1=Jennifer|last1=Loach|author2=G. W. Bernard|author3=Penry Williams|title=Edward VI|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=chM2BQAAQBAJ&pg=PA36|year=1999|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=978-0-300-07992-0|page=36}}</ref> It remained there until the monarchy was temporarily abolished in the 17th&nbsp;century. [[Oliver Cromwell]] had the royal crowns disassembled and gems sold, and the gold was melted down and struck into coins. How the stone found its way back into the Royal Collection after the Interregnum is unclear, but a substantial "ruby" was acquired for the Crown Jewels in 1661 at a cost of £400, and this may well have been the spinel.<ref>Olivia Fryman in Bird and Clayton, "Ceremony and Coronation", p. 102.</ref> At the [[coronation of Queen Victoria]] in 1838, she was crowned with a new [[Imperial State Crown]] made for her by [[Rundell and Bridge]], with 3,093 gems, including the spinel at the front. The Queen can be clearly seen wearing the jewel in the Imperial State Crown in her official coronation portrait by Sir [[George Hayter]]. This was remade in 1937 into the current, lighter, crown. A [[plaquette]] on the reverse of the gemstone commemorates the crown's history.<ref name="royalcollection"/>