The book is billed as the definitive biography of the world’s most famous jeweler, as told by his son.
The world associates the name Harry Winston with glamour and jewels – it’s synonymous with Hollywood stars, royal families and captains of industry. Marilyn Monroe ushered the name into legend when she breathlessly sang, “Talk to me, Harry Winston; tell me all about it!” in 1953’s classic movie “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.”
As much a memoir of Winston’s own life navigating a world of wealth and intrigue as it is a biography of his famous father, “King of Diamonds” was published Sept. 19 by Skyhorse Press. The book chronicles the incredible rags-to-riches tale that was Harry Winston’s life: He was born Harry Weinstein in 1896 to a struggling Jewish family who left Ukraine for New York, where they started a small jewelry business.
In “King of Diamonds” Ronald Winston writes that his father pursued a “Grail”-like quest to acquire all the world’s most famous diamonds – he famously owned the Hope Diamond before donating it to the Smithsonian Institution in 1958 – and was once said to have a collection rivaled only by the Queen of England.
Ronald writes that, personally, he loved chemistry and had ambitions to be a scientist after earning his degree from Harvard University – where he became friends with Timothy Leary . He even worked at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and New York University, but went into the family business at his father’s insistence.
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