Are the Crown Jewels that are on display at the Tower of London the real thing?

Question

Or are they replicas as someone told me?

Answer 1

They are the real Crown Jewels. Mostly they're only ever taken out the Tower for a coronation.

Answer 2

The jewels are real. So are the bullets and weapons of the hundreds of regular Army based at the tower.

Answer 3

Well i've been to the tower of London and saw the crown jewels, they're supposed to be real but when i saw them, they didn't look very real at all. Although the diamonds were all *bling* it looked fake and the gold part looked as though it was wood sprayed with gold paint. So they could be replicas, but you can only see them through glass anyway.

Answer 4

no they are real

Answer 5

No, COKE, is the Real Thing!

Answer 6

They are real with the exception of the stones, which have been replaced with fakes.  The real ones are reinserted anytime the Jewels are taken out for ceremony.  (That's what the Yeoman Warders stated when I visited)

Answer 7

Clever Lad! They were the real thing until HM hocked them after Rory Emerald, Baron of Sligo, foreclosed the mortgages on Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace! I understand that there was a real scene when HM couldn't get enough for the jewels to pay off the Baron. Accusations of fraud are flying from both camps!

Answer 8

Yes they are. To 'tweun t' - British Heritage are not stupid enough to 'paint wood gold' to fool the world into thinking they are real. Even if they were to be fakes, they would still be made of metal, probably plated and the stones wouldn't just be glass either.