For more than half a millennium, the stone – kept, long ago, at Perthshire’s Scone Abbey – has been used to crown British monarchs; last year, it returned to Westminster for the coronation ...
Of course, it was at Scone Abbey where the Stone played an integral role in the crowning of Scottish kings in times gone by. The conversion of the old Perth City Hall into a state-of-the-art ...
In 1296, English king Edward I looted the stone (from Scone Abbey) in 1296 and brought it to London. 700 years later, it was returned to Scotland. The Stone of Destiny has featured in the ...
William Murray, Earl of Mansfield was buried in the north transept of Westminster Abbey on 28th March 1793. He was born on 2nd March 1705 at Scone Abbey (later Palace) in Perth, Scotland. He was a son ...
She has also tracked the fate of other, more official, fragments of the Stone of Scone which were taken as ... few months when it was left at Arbroath Abbey and the students who took it were ...