The British coronation regalia includes the scepter and crown which both contain huge diamonds with a controversial past. These gems, along with seven other big diamonds, were all cut from the largest clear cut diamond ever recorded - the Cullinan Diamond. It was 10 centimeters long and 6 centimeters deep and given to King Edward VII in 1907, who had it cut into pieces. Every coronation since has featured the largest two Cullinan I in the scepter and Cullinan II in the crown, also known as the Great Star of Africa and the Second Star of Africa. The king got the original diamond from the Transvaal Provincial government, a British colony in what is now South Africa. They had purchased it from the mine which was located on land that the British had annexed in a war against the descendants of Dutch settlers who had taken the land from local tribes. The British committed a long list of atrocities in the region, including extracting the country’s mineral riches. Now, South Africans are calling for the return of the diamond, claiming that all mining and colonial operations were illegal from the start.