{"id":214559,"date":"2026-04-29T20:54:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T20:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/214559\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T20:54:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T20:54:13","slug":"mamdani-wants-to-ask-king-charles-to-return-the-koh-i-noor-diamond-as-royal-hits-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/214559\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamdani wants to ask King Charles to &#8216;return the Koh-i-Noor Diamond&#8217; as royal hits NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mayor Zohran Mamdani quipped that he wants to ask <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/29\/us-news\/mamdani-meets-king-charles-iii-at-9-11-museum-memorial-during-royal-nyc-visit\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">King Charles III to return one of the British monarchy\u2019s crown jewels<\/a> as the UK head of states tours New York City Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The mayor, who was set to attend a <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/28\/us-news\/king-charles-us-visit-live-updates-from-meeting-with-trump-more\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">wreath-laying ceremony<\/a> at the 9\/11 Memorial &amp; Museum with the king, told reporters that if he got a chance to speak to the him, he\u2019d ask that the UK give back the 100-karat Koh-i-Noor diamond, which has been used in Queen Elizabeth II\u2019s crown.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.51032448;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39233641\" width=\"891\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/executive-director-jewels-de-paragon-126639481.jpg\" alt=\"Executive Director of Jewels de Paragon (JDP) Pavana Kishore holding the Koh-i-Noor diamond.\" class=\"wp-image-39233641\"  \/>The disputed diamond could be worth up to $1B. AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39233471\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/new-york-city-mayor-zohran-126639111_ba77f8.jpg\" alt=\"New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani greets Britain's King Charles III at the 9\/11 Memorial.\" class=\"wp-image-39233471\"  \/>New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, left, greets Britain\u2019s King Charles. AP<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I was to speak to the king \u2026 I would probably encourage him to return the Koh-i-Noor diamond,\u201d Hizzoner said during an unrelated press conference in The Bronx, when asked about his expected meeting with Charles.<\/p>\n<p>The diamond, which is <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/05\/06\/why-queen-camilla-wont-wear-koh-i-noor-diamond-at-coronation\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">estimated to be worth up to $1 billion<\/a>, has been used by British royalty for decades and its ownership has been contested by India, Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>The Indian government renewed calls for the diamond\u2019s return in 2022 following the queen\u2019s death.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayor Zohran Mamdani quipped that he wants to ask King Charles III to return one of the British&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5636,57,9,24,63,134,136,135,58,82],"class_list":["post-214559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-king-charles-iii","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news","tag-us-news","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}