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Cast onto the time-winds, the diadem ended up on Earth, where it was discovered as part of a cache of jewelry by Heinreich Schliemann when he was excavating [[Troy]] in [[1873]]. He called the collection the Jewels of Helen, and his wife was famously photographed wearing the diadem. It was then lost in [[Berlin]] in [[1945]], before being rediscovered by David Gosthorpe prior to his death in [[1987]]. | Cast onto the time-winds, the diadem ended up on Earth, where it was discovered as part of a cache of jewelry by Heinreich Schliemann when he was excavating [[Troy]] in [[1873]]. He called the collection the Jewels of Helen, and his wife was famously photographed wearing the diadem. It was then lost in [[Berlin]] in [[1945]], before being rediscovered by David Gosthorpe prior to his death in [[1987]]. | ||
Unconcerned about the money it could bring him, David hid the diadem in his ancestral castle, and died penniless. His sister Ellen Carter, determined to rebuild the family fortune by selling the headdress to the highest bidder, located it despite the [[Fifth Doctor]] advising her to leave it in the past. When she put it on, however, she suffered a powerful psychic attack that killed her. The Doctor concluded that the diadem was psychic technology, using the wearer's own [[psychic energy]] to enhance their appearance. He speculated that, while there was no evidence it was ever worn by [[Helen of Troy]], such a power would explain her legendary beauty. He was | Unconcerned about the money it could bring him, David hid the diadem in his ancestral castle, and died penniless. His sister Ellen Carter, determined to rebuild the family fortune by selling the headdress to the highest bidder, located it despite the [[Fifth Doctor]] advising her to leave it in the past. When she put it on, however, she suffered a powerful psychic attack that killed her. The Doctor concluded that the diadem was psychic technology, using the wearer's own [[psychic energy]] to enhance their appearance. He speculated that, while there was no evidence it was ever worn by [[Helen of Troy]], such a power would explain her legendary beauty. He was unsure why it had killed Ellen, suggesting it might have been a malfunction or that she somehow triggered a security feature. [[Nyssa]] threw the headdress into the castle lake. | ||
After the Doctor and Nyssa had left, however, the diadem shone brightly from the water, the screaming face now that of Ellen. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Past Reckoning (short story)|Past Reckoning]]'') | After the Doctor and Nyssa had left, however, the diadem shone brightly from the water, the screaming face now that of Ellen. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Past Reckoning (short story)|Past Reckoning]]'') | ||
