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Show Bv Jack House. The Director Teacher's Scotch Information Centre King-Crowning Stone When you're putting on a big social affair, you want to give it your best. But sometimes a neighbor can get jealous and upstage you. That's what happened to the old Scots, who used to crown their kings sitting on the Stone of Destiny. This was an ancient an-cient piece of stone which was said to be the original Jacob's Pillow, mentioned in the Bible, brought to Scotland by a Princess Prin-cess of Israel. The Scots regarded re-garded the Stone as very important im-portant indeed. But so did the English. King Edward I wanted to take Scotland Scot-land over and he marched his Army north and conquered some of the country. The English Eng-lish got as far as the town of Scone (pronounced "Scoon"), where the Stone of Destiny was kept for coronations. Edward I had the Stone taken to Westminster Abbey in London, where it was set under the Coronation Chair. Since then every King and Queen crowned in Westminster Abbey Ab-bey have sat on the Stone of Destiny. In 1950, the Teacher's Scotch Information Centre points out, a group of Glasgow University students removed the Stone from Westminster Abbey and took it back to Scotland. It was kept hidden for a while and then returned to London. But some Scots say that the Stone which went back to London was an imitation one, and that the real Stone of Destiny is still in the Western Isles of Scotland. |