The Mysterious History of the Coronation Stone | The Stone of Destiny
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- Ahead of the coronation of King Charles III, historian Dan Snow explores the fascinating and mysterious history of the Coronation Stone, also known as the Stone of Scone or the Stone of Destiny.
The stone is a highly revered symbol of Scottish sovereignty. It is an oblong block of sandstone that weighs approximately 152 kilograms and it has been the subject of controversy and mystery for centuries, witnessing many turbulent events in British history.
Although geological analysis has shown the stone used today was quarried in Scotland, various legends trace the stone's history back to Biblical times. It was later placed outside Scone Palace in Scotland and featured in the coronation ceremonies of Scottish kings and queens for centuries.
The stone was captured by the English in 1296 during the Wars of Scottish Independence and was taken to Westminster Abbey in London, where it was placed under the seat of the Coronation Chair. It remained there for over 700 years, except for a brief period during the Second World War when it was moved to a secure location.
The theft of the Stone of Scone from Westminster Abbey on Christmas Day 1950 by a group of Scottish nationalists created a sensation. The stone was taken to Scotland and hidden in various locations until it was eventually found on the altar of Arbroath Abbey. The stone was finally returned to Scotland by the British government in 1996. It was then placed in Edinburgh Castle alongside the Scottish Crown Jewels. But in the last few days, with the coronation of King Charles III approaching, the stone has once again made its way down to Westminster Abbey to take part in the ceremony.
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Wales _also_ had a symbol of Welsh sovereignty and independence that was taken by Edward:
A golden cross that had been passed down through generations of native Welsh princess,known as the _Croes Naid_ ,it was said to contain a piece of the true cross. Edward took the golden Welsh cross ( weighing 24lbs) with him to Scotland and had the Scots to swear an oath of fealty in its presence.
Unlike the stone of Scone ,the _Croes Naid_ didn't survive - it was melted down in 1552 to be 'put to coyne' 😔
Sad!
@@krim7 Yes it certainly is; there are surviving depictions of it in the ceiling bosses at the chapel of St George in Windsor (where it was kept for a few centuries) What's really sad is that here in Wales ,hardly _anyone_ is even aware that this symbol of Welsh independence even _existed_ 😞💔
@@cymro6537 That was most likely by designed sadly. Always trying to keep the Welsh down :(
@@krim7 Yes, after the death of the last _native_ Welsh Prince, Llywelyn ap Gruffudd in a skirmish with the English, his daughter of 18 months was spirited away to a nunnery in Lincolnshire - this making sure that she wouldn't produce any future Welsh princes that would challenge English overlordship.
She never left the nunnery walls ,it was her prison for the remaining 54 years of her life..
Groes Naid not croes spell it it right the first time
The narration of the Stone splitting in two isn't quite accurate. The arson attack in 1914 was what broke it as the Stone was cracked into two pieces by the force of the blast that damaged the Coronation Chair, rather than the students' actions. The Abbey authorities chose not to make this information public and so, when Ian Hamilton and his companions pulled the Stone out of the Coronation Chair, the two pieces came apart. It was the smaller piece, roughly a quarter of the Stone's volume, that Ian and his female companion were keeping hidden when the policeman approached them outside the Abbey. I was a guide at Westminster Abbey in the 1990's and was one of the first to see the Chair without the Stone after the latter was taken back to Scotland.
Great extra info. Thanks (and always read the comments!)
@@transvestosaurus878 you are well come.
Its literally a stone.
The stone is 100% symbolic. Imagine a small sea shell that Jesus may have carried in his pocket. It is interesting and may have historic value but has no power or real purpose. True spiritual enlightenment and power doesn't require any idols, trinkets or stones. In fact they hinder it.
Why should people resent the Scottish stone of destiny.?
The idea was subjection. Under the arse of the King of England.
I enjoyed(proudly) the film about the students. I’ve always wondered why Scotland is not Free. I know they voted it so but that’s politics and maybe that’s the reason all this time. We have James to blame.
Love your work 👍
Free Scotland 🏴
Yes free England of the stone around our neck!
From the Scots!
One thing is evident. The English took it from Scotland.
They couldn't even protect their stones 😂
Anachronism Rules KO!
Like everything else 😂😂
Agreed it stayed in the UK
😂 sour as usual .
Another interesting story, or urban myth, around the stone says that when the students from The University of Glasgow took the stone, they hid it in the Glasgow University Union building and a copy was left in Arbroath Abbey. The original stone, the story tells, still lies hidden in the walls of the GUU building. I remember hearing that story when I was an undergraduate at Glasgow.
Another story has the Bruce hiding the original and replacing it with the lid of a privy. I cant remember where I heard that one but if it and your stories are both true then the stone we see is a fake of a fake.
Maybe not an urban myth. The story in Scotland was that when the stone was stolen, the Dean of Westminster thought it would be a good idea to have a replica made, to outflank the nationalist plot to restore the stone to its rightful home, because who would know one lump of sandstone with an iron ring from another? OK said the plotters, let’s make a lot of replicas so that no one knows which one is real - and thus no one really knows whether “The Stone” is the original at all.. Thus the Scottish folk song of the 1950s (my childhood) “The Wee Magic Stane” which mocked the whole bloody nonsense and had the wonderful final verse
“So if ever you come on a Stane wi' a ring,
Jist sit yersel doon and proclaim yersel King,
Fur there's nane wud be able to challenge yir claim,
That you'd croont yersel King on the Destiny Stane.”
@@davidpaterson2309 I think I have that song on an Alasdair MacDonald LP..yes I'm old enough to have LPs.
@@davidpaterson2309 David, I love the wee ditty and also your 'Stone' info. Many thanks. Got to say that my late mother was a naughty lassie back in the day and went about painting post boxes green! An anti-Royalist happily married a Royalist for a wonderful 56 years. Mother said that, after watching a film at the picture house, the National Anthem would be played. She'd remain sat and father would stand to attention! Hey-ho, their love lasted! Thanks again.
Another story is that the stone is just like any other stone and that a local man, Arthur Fennon, used it when building a wall around his farm in 1708. Arthur later d tamaged a tooth when he accidentally fell off the same wall 9 years later. He was wearing a greeen and grey coat at the time.
It was perhaps more importantly used to crown the Scots Kings ( something Dan Snow overlooked).
@@eilidh8984 the winner took all. 😊
A surprising amount of historical info packed into this short film. Excellent, and beautifully made and presented. Impressive. Nice one Dan. 🌟👍
A surprising amount of anachronistic point-of-view implicit in the presentation, too. Who would have thought, listening to this, that most of what is covered was a time when England was a subsidiary realm of foreign French kings?
William, go on easy on the fizzy drinks please. Next you'll be extolling the virtues of the Curious Case of the Empty Tin of Peas found in the Mrs. Nolans back garden.
We should relish and rejoice in the pathways of all of our paths and traditions- together. Without bias or conviction. So many brave souls fought brutally ,and died trying to do as they thought correct- and we simply cannot go back and change anything. Just learn better for it.
When the English invaded Scotland every man woman and child in Berwick was slaughtered. Runners travelled north to warn everyone what was coming their way which gave three or four days for the real stone to be hidden and a replica made of Perthshire sandstone . The original stone came from the Holy-iand not Perthshire. The monks were probably murdered as were so many
True. The 4 Lay Monks were murdered at Dryburgh Abbey by Perci but they didn't reveal the location of The Stone. Perci was to get the Dukedom of Northumbria for his reward but he failed.
As you say Perth sandstone does not come from Egypt, the original Stone of Destiny never left Scotland, no English monarch has ever been crowned on the Stone of Destiny,
One good theory is that it was brought from Egypt by Scota, daughter of the dead Pharoah Akhnaten.😇
It was discovered by forensic police in the front garden of Nicola Sturgeon
Superstitions and Pomp. Can we move into this Century England????? and reality.
Let's get something straight, it was stolen by a tyrant so how can it be stolen back if it is not your's in the first place. It should have returned a long time before it was .NO STRINGS ATTACHED . My hope is when long shanks sat on it he got hemorrhoids.🖕
Why hate the English? Because they overpowered the Irish Scottish and Welsh (emphasis on the last two)
a long time ago.....
That stone belongs to the Judeo-Christian Heritage and rightly important during the British King’s coronation who is the head of the Anglican Church of England. Its significance is somewhat like that with the anointing of oil on a new spiritual head and steeped in Biblical tradition. Therefore no country should be using that stone to represent its sovereignty.
Rulers during the age of conquest and invasion have been taking things and people from other places as spoils of war. And in this age of enlightenment, historical artifacts have been gradually returned to their places of origin. So I suppose that each nation must only use objects that are Inherently from their own land to represent their sovereignty.
There was a very similar stone at Tullyhogue in Ulster, on which the premier Gaelic clan chieftain of Ulster, The O'Neill, was inaugurated for nearly a thousand years. This ended with the conquest of Ulster in 1602, when the stone was smashed and scattered by the English forces under Lord Mountjoy, towards the end of the Nine Years war (1594-1603) which was the attempt by the last O'Neill (Aodh Mor) to re-conquer all of Ireland from the English. The smashing and scattering of the stone of Tullyhogue symbolized (and was intended to symbolize) the overthrow of the Gaelic order in Ireland. That the stone was smashed instead of being incorporated into the British throne like the stone of Scone has its own symbolic resonance, in that the Irish would never regard themselves, nor be regarded by the British, as being 'British' in the way the Welsh and the Scottish came to be. Maybe if an O'Neill had set his family for a century on the English Throne, as Welshman Henry Tudor and Scotsman James Stuart did, things would have turned out differently. Strange things, these stones.
As a great grand daughter x many of Hugh O'Neill , Lord Matthew O'Kelly O'Neill and Conn Baccagh all the way back to Niall I find this incredibly infuriating . I live in NZ and even here we have felt the arrogance of the English . Really sad but really of its time.
The Stewart's were the descendents of Fergal Mor who was sent over to Scotland by the Irish High King in 501to be Prince of Dalriada which later became Scotland.
@@masterteachereducationconv9766
My direct ancestor was a chieftain that swore allegiance to Hugh O'Neill (and was eventually exiled from Ireland as a result), so strange as it may seem my ancestor probably knew and fought alongside yours.
I was just about to start researching that so I could leave an informed comment, but you did it way better than I could! Fair play :)
Not the bloody Stuarts, they licked the Popes feet.
The stone comes from Perthshire in Scotland. Established from this 1998 paper "A geological perspective on the Stone of Destiny
" By N. J. FORTEY , E. R. PHILLIPS , A . A. MCMILLAN and M. A. E. BROWNE British Geological Survey,
The stone will be on display in Perth city hall once the refurb work is finished.
@@ElectricPharmacy Thanks for the info mate
English people always showing off the power
Over the Scott.. you can't keep your hands off from our rock? It's belong to the Scottish people forever. Free Scotland.
It's Scot son. Not Scott. It's Scotland not Scottland. Scott is a boys name.
@@brianbrian1769 And for those who make even worse errors SCOTCH is a drink not a nationality.
Meanwhile the ancient English coronation stones lies out side the council offices of Kingston on Thames in Surrey.
On this stone King Æthelstan was crowned in Kingston in 925, King Eadred in 946, King Æthelred in 979 and many others . Yet unlike the Scottish stone of Scoon it lies untouch and un celebrated.
Glad you mentioned this. It's a pity more people don't talk about it. As far as I understand it's in a similar position along the course of the Thames as Scone is along the Tay. Suggesting that this was a key consideration.
Do you have any idea what the English crowning stone is made of and if it was quarried locally to Kingston on Thames?
Yes ,such a shame that this stone is pretty much forgotten.....😕
@@zippy4star Apparently it's a Sarsen stone, the same as at Stonehenge. However, where it originated I don't know. Though you might be right about both stones river locations, because the rivers were our ancient ancestors motorways.
Gosh! I didn’t know it still existed. That is amazing. I
When I was at Kingston upon Thames Art College in 1968 or 9 (I forget which) we were told it was the quite small stone standing in the churchyard of the church by the bridge over the river.
We told an visiting American student and he misunderstood. He thought that the kings of England had sat on it and got stoned. (Which he was almost permanently. 😉)
What makes this stone special is that it was used by the Israelite patriarch Jacob, as a pillow, when he slept outside on the ground during the time he was running from his older brother Esau, who sought to kill him. As he slept, Jacob had a vision and God spoke to him. When he woke up the next morning, he consecrated the stone to God, and it became known as "Jacob's Pillow." The story is told in Genesis 28:10-22.
Well, if that is really the origin of the Stone of Destiny, then the one in the Coronation chair isn't the original. Because it's been tested, and the stone from which it is made comes from Scotland.
Yes
YES, WELL SPOKEN THE TRUTH.
@georgewolfiii1170.......do you actually believe that nonsense.the stone is scottish made from local sandstone.
It's a fake piece of Scone sandstone. The McDonald's of the isles offered the real one to James 4th for the earldom of Ross.
As Robert the Bruce gave his friend Angus og Lord of the Isles the stone to protect on his death bed because his son was very young and with his death it lead to the second war of independence
The “roughly carved cross” is extremely dodgy, definitely in the eye of the beholder. The central rectangle - look how roughly that is marked out. It is so obviously just a rough series of chisel strikes to start carving out a recess. The “cross” id the first strip across that rectangle that was going to be carved out.
It’s bleedin’ obvious that this particular stone was marked out extremely roughly as a preliminary and never finished.
Yeah, that cross was very dubious.
I believe it came from Egypt because the Scottish people come from princess Scotia, who was an Egyptian princess who after the murder of her father. She married a Greek aristocrat and went to Scotland
There is in Scotland the conviction among many that the “returned” stone was a copy.
well said, the current sandstone nonsense is a fake, the British inbred Family can keep it
The English have form, as they say 😂
Damn we have some awesome history in the UK 🇬🇧 😊
Interesting that the word LIAFAIL is pronounced the same whether read left to right or right to left. English is read left to right and Hebrew is read right to left. In both languages it's meaning is the same-- DESTINY .
No sandstone in Israel though. Limestone yes.
@@no15minutecities a outcrop of identical stone was found in extreme west Jordan some years ago. Of course it didn't make the evening news, but some basic research online evidenced it to my satisfaction. There are many with a vested interest is concealing any connection between the LiafaiL and the middle east.
I'm surprised the students weren't punished for yoinking the Stone, but then again I guess the English punishing someone for stealing priceless cultural artifacts would be a bit too glaringly hypocritical and would set an embarrassing precedent.
Westminster Abbey is such a beautiful work of art. The sound of the choir in person must be heavenly ❤
Built by Catholic Benedictines over 1000 years ago and stolen by Protestant , Henry VIII, along with 0ver 800 other properties, belonging to the Catholic Church.
@@madeleine7 All built by taxing the poor who were starving, whilst they sat in their cathedrals and abbeys surrounded by gold and silver.
Notice all the biased language used here.
- The puppet king was “not sufficiently loyal” to Edward.
- Edward’s tour of Scotland specifically to steal &/or destroy all its land titles and historic paperwork - to erase its history - glossed as “taking the stone and other relics”.
- Scotland, a country unified long before England was (which is why Cumbria & Northumbria are not in Domesday) is positioned spin medieval times as seeking independence (as if that were not its default) rather than shaking off an invasion.
Free Scotland!
The monarchy are loyal to no one but their own power and immense wealth…..Saturday is a sad day for the world.
You know shit was tough all over, when people used big 'ol stones for pillows!!
This is just too Funny . 🤣
It is a rock.
It was a few hundred years after Edward death that the hammer of the Scots was inscribed on his tomb.
His nickname was Longshanks.
and his tomb is the plainest in the Abbey..
I remember reading about the time they opened his tomb. Apparently the King and his clothes were quite well preserved.
In 1603 James VI of Scotland INHERITED England and was crowned James I of England as well.
To this day ALL crowned monarchs of Great Britain are Scottish monarchs first and foremost.
Scotland is the first of the 3 Lions and the seat of the monarchy should be returned to Scotland along with the Stone.
Note: The Keepers of the real Stone of Destiny will reveal it when Scotland recovers its primacy de facto.
Free Scotland!
🙏❤️Thank you for sharing that history of the Stone of Schoon.... 😊, I've always been fascinated about Scotland ❤️, since i got to read about it in books in our grade school library...
For Schoon read SCONE ! Just outside the City of Perth Scotland
@@briandawson8701 yes Skoon it's pronounced. I actually live here in Scone
Anyone visiting Perth can see buildings made from the red sandstone produced by local quarries.
Same thoughts.
In Australia?
Great Britain has a beautiful History and folklore 🏴🏴🏴
From a french woman 🇫🇷
Alba go bragh!🇺🇲🏴🇺🇲
It’s an unremarkable piece of sandstone because it isn’t the Stone of Destiny.
Amazing how many thick people just believe the narrative isn't it. I suppose this is a good example of propaganda through the ages . It neither resembles the depiction on King Alexanders seal nor the historical writings .
Its just a fake.
That was deadpan.
I prefer History Calling's take on the vandals... er, I mean students..
The original stone of destiny in Celtic culture was a meteorite. It was described in oral tradition to ring like a bell , that would make sense. It was a semi large orb shape sort of in half . Edward never got the real one, they got the footstool which is sandstone. They have found the stone matches the the granite from the local quarry ( the footstool ) . The true stone was Hidden and may be forgotten or passed down and will be revealed at a certain time. That slab of stone is just a piece of sandstone, that has been proven .
You can see the real stone in Alexander II seal, he's seated in it and it's carved intricately
@@firebyrd437 Yes indeed, that's what I was mentioning. The stone of today is as the footstool which sat below the real meteorite. Legend has it that is hidden somewhere on isle of Skye . Others claim that the location was handed down generations then lost when Henry the 8th sacked the Monestries, then of course Cromwell. Makers you wonder. The real clinch was when the results came in from the testing of the sandstone block that it came from a sandstone quarry adjacent to Scone Palace. That would fit in with the footstool theory.
The true stone is in the possession now of the rightful King of UK, he has all the documentation etc plus shows the actual stone and tells how he rightfully claimed it and let Charles know that he has it
It wasn't a meteorite it is basalt.
Otherwise everything is correct.
@@tempestsagew5175 "Rightful King of the UK", ha, ha, ha.
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I visited Edinburgh Castle 2 weeks ago, seeing the Stone, along with the Crown Jewels. I’m glad I saw it before it headed off for the coronation!
Mmmm did it not be despatched several months ago under herald and security?
@@DICKdeNORMATITY I was surprised to see it there… but the guards, guides and signage all said “Crown Jewels and Stone of Destiny ahead”. In the case, next to the sword, crown and scepter was a fairly large rectangular stone, rather than a small card reading “out for coronation”.
The real authentic stone is hidden & protected. It was stolen in 1952 & broke apart. The real stone has 4 bars, the one on display has 3 bars. The fake stone on display is 114# lighter.
@@DICKdeNORMATITY No it was transported last week, it arrived a few days before the coronation.
Charles may call himself the King of Scotland amongst his many titles, but he is NOT The King of the Scots.
If the current Stone of Scone has been analysed to have been quarried near Scone, that would be a possible indication that it's not the original one since one of the things that make stones special and sacred is the fact they come from somewhere else considered sacred, or the effort it would have taken to move them where they are. If they could just pick any slab in the local quarry, it wouldn't have had much of a symbolic significance, but at least it would have made for an easy switcheroo for the monks to simply find a slab that was convincing enough to trick King Edward.
I’ve always said that with the threat of German invasion in WW2 , they didn’t just leave the Crown Jewels lying around, so like yourself you just know it was definitely switched at some point !
Don't be deceived by tales of trickery. Recent research reveals traces of copper on the stone surface. There are paralellels on the Continent where saintly relics were put upon the judicial stone. A royal stone is also a judicial stone.
Bravo, my sentiments and theory exactly 💯
The only way it would be real would be if it was imported from Scone to the middle east thousands of years ago.
@@Ranstone Scone is a food
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I expect it will remain silent when Chucky plants his behind on it.
There is another Coronation Stone in Kingston upon Thames. It is on display outside the Guildhall.
Who cares? I mean, nice piece of research and all, but nothing I couldn't have found on Wikipedia. In any case, the present British royal family's claim to the monarchy is tenuous, to say the least.
Not at all. Charles was Proclaimed King and had the support of Parliament, so under 1688 and all that he is undisputed King. There is no other legitimate line for Scotland (from James VI and the line of Celtic Kings) and England (from William I and Wessex).
@@thostaylor Jacobite Stuart's are the real Kings of Great Britain they lost out to a change in religion ie No more Catholic only protestant Kings and Queens 😮
@@Valhalla88888 Catholic King's of Scotland? That will go down well in Glasgow.
I don't see how the taking of the stone by French speaking King Edward was a "powerful symbol of England's domain over Scotland". Under feudalism what mattered were the rights and entitlements of noble houses and dynasties. Edward was clearly expressing his own authority but certainly not "England's" because the concept of being English hardly existed and even the English language was only one among several (both in the north and south). Edward regarded himself as Norman not English and was more concerned about his continental possessions. I hate to hear modern propaganda being misrepresented as history.
And Edward was the King of what Kingdom? Oh yeah England.
@@krim7 And Ireland. And parts of France. So yeah, not just England.
@@rogink The Duchy of Aquitaine and the Lordship of Ireland were two lesser titles that the Kings of England possessed.
The whole point of taking the stone was to exert English hegemony over the politics of Scotland.
You are being ridicilous
@@krim7 England was a subsidiary kingdom of Edward’s realm: certainly he and his forbears considered it secondary to his French lands - and so did his descendants for generations. English people all seem completely unaware that Henry IV (born 1421) was the first Norman king of England who had English (by then nothing like pre-Norman English) as his first language.
How is there still any argument as King James VI of SCOTLAND became King James I of England and reigned during the UNION of Scotland and England in 1603??? His blood runs through both English Royal descendants and Scottish. The point is moot. As usual creating chaos out of nothing.
According to the law of the United Kingdom, an item cannot be "stolen" from one who acquired the item by theft, the thief lacking even colorable title.
I must admit that the British were good sports about refusing to press charges against the Scottish students who stole the stone. Everybody plundered it from everybody else so they retrieved the stone instead of whining about it. However the stone did break which is fortunate because this whole civilization's sins have reached to Heaven as predicted in the Bible. But even the Tower of Babel can be tripped. The broken footstool represents the inevitable earthquake which will facilitate their permanent destruction by military force.
Testing has been done on the stone and its been proven that it was sandstone from a quarry near Scone, Hence the name.
I don't know why these stupid stories of its origin come from as they're just not true.
The stone is Scottish, of Scottish origin and belongs here in Scotland 🏴 though I have no problems with it being used for corporations down south.
The host is, as always, sympathetic and dynamic.
Would make a lovely necklace for Charlie boy ! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I seem to remember reading that the stone had been chemically tested, and that is was similar to stone from the holy land, lending credence to the Jacobs pillow story.
It was tested, but was proven to be a stone similar to the local sand stone. There is also a local legend that the ancient Pictish kings were crowned in today’s Angus/Perthshire area and a local hill is named The Kings Seat.
No sandstone in Palestine! The stone is definitely not from the ME
It has been tested, and the stone is native to Scotland. I think it was found to be from the area around Perth.
Beth El where Jacob is said slept to dream on a stone pillow- was a Israelite holy site depicted on a contemporary coin as a huge prehistoric standing stone (hence the backstory to explain). These standing stones seemed to be like ours, but got largely destroyed in religious reforms emanating from the Jerusalem Temple/ King class, that imposed a later very centralised monotheism. Samaritans kept some of the old holy sites going, but without the pillars. Just like we’ve got standing stones all over the place in Scotland - so we’ve far deeper and more ancient connection than them parading around with a Scottish stand stone block mined from Israel
@@davidmccann9811 the question is, is it the real stone of scone, or has it been substituted? If it is very local stone, that doesn't even fit with legend of coming from Ireland, or being used earlier in other parts of Scotland for Scottish Kings. Some call it the "westminster stone", to distinguish it from the real, hidden, one.
The stone was stolen by Edward longshanks.
It shouldn't have been returned for the coronation
There's a really good movie about the Stone of Destiny heist. Also it's been parodied by Sir Terry Pratchett in The Fifth Elephant where Sam Vime needed to find the stolen Scone of Stone baked (Yes baked) by the 1st king of the Dwarves. Impressions of his butt cheeks can be seen on it even 2000 years on.
The scots stole it from an irish settlement in Scotland,However Edward long shanks was related to Scottish royalty and jacob . Edward kept the faith.
Just as traditionally important, will Charles take a sword and strike the London Stone?
Escalibur
No, with a change to tradition he's going to take a sword and strike any peasants that don't pledge allegiance to him.
Seems rather silly to put so much importance on weird things people hundreds of years ago set into place to justified the exalted status of monarchy by looking pompous and great to their adoring subjects... pretty transparently self aggrandizing too.
What do we need nobility/royalty for exactly?
Has no one realized it's a rock and we should focus out energies on our collapsing societies?
LOL
The real stone of destiny can be seen on the seal of Alexander II. He's sitting on it with a sword in one hand and the orb in the other, and the stone is carved
Russian?
@@dhoraray1310 what do you mean by 'russian' ?
Monty Python fans will be interested to learn that centuries before the Stone of Destiny entered use in British coronations, it was dropped on the Jewish Official at the end of the stoning scene in the Life of Brian 🤣
We all know it's the Scone of Stone, produced by the first Great British Bake-Off.
It came out of the Arch of the covenant!
Brought aback from Solomon's temple. By the Nights Templars
Stone worship and superstition, how sad.
There is no such title as King of Scotland it is King of Scots.
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Excellent video. Now, The King of Scotland James Vi became the King of England and joined the two nations eventually becoming the UK.
So there's nothing "controversial" about any of it.
The two nations continued to have their own parliaments for a century- and indeed England waged economic war in Scotland for a lit of that time.
There was or is no king of Scotland.Monarchs are crowned king/queen of scots.The people have the right to remove monarchs unlike the people in England.
@Mary Thomson
Parliament can remove a Monarch. It removed Charles I and James II & VII.
Ironically, King Edward I "stole" this Stone in his attempt to take over Scotland and centuries later, King James VI of Scotland, also his descendant, took over the throne in England and sat on the Stone! Scotland took over England literally! History is full of ironies!!
You are incorrect the UK did not become the UK until 1801
I've got a small rock in my garden .....is that Destiny's Child ?
I think it highlights how stupid human beings are, we fight over anything and everything.
The Scottish Royal Family is in Liechtenstein!
Beautiful story 😍
If its not real then why is it so integral to the coronation?
What a strange, mysterious existence royal British authoritative and its commonwealth that laying on this legendary stone besides of atomic weapons technologies 10:22
There is a hill near Scone, part of the Sidlaws, law being old Scots for hill, that is named The Kings Seat. It is in an area known for sandstone, local legend is that it was in fact here that the Stone of Destiny came from as it was where the pagan Pictish kings were crowned. Perhaps this is the true story of this ancient stone? There is also several hill forts along this range of hills as well as a high number of carved Pictish stones and earth houses.
The real stone is black and carved generously , made either from black basalt or black granite.
A king would not be crowned on a lump of sandstone
@@pauls3204 you do know that not all sandstone is pink right?
The sandstone from the Sidlaws is DARK GREY and used for Pictish stones throughout perthshire and Angus. If this stone is good enough for those important stones I'm pretty sure that it would be good enough for the Pictish kings... as per the local legends and scientific evidence of the stone itself!
The Catholic religion is well known for following the pagan Roman practice of absorbing local religions into itself, saying your god/gods/goddesses etc. are our gods etc.
They followed this up by building temples on foreign holy places, and later cathedrals or churches over the temples.
The original Stone of Scone was more likely a Pict object of veneration, made into a Christian symbol to get the pagan Pict/Scot peoples to convert to Catholicism.
I think it looks like ET from the front . The Alien Stone from Mars !!
Cheers Dan, thoroughly enjoyed watching this. Oh and thank you for helping that shark at leap Beach, good job you were local. 😉👍
Looks like a rock to me. I wonder who they stole it from.
One thing which will be evident if its placed under the throne during the Corrination is that it shows contempt remains against the Scots. The whole reason it's used in Corrination was king Edward showing he was the overlord of Scotland I believe the stone should be present at Charles Corrination but not under the throne
@@redred7289 totally agree but then I would ask the question who would be the prince of Wales if they handed it back to someone. It was a Scottish king who united the crowns of England and Scotland but I I recall he only visit Scotland again once after his corrination with the crown of England and he was the king of Scotland (james VI and I) so even he by sitting on top of the throne with the stone of destiny underneath it and only returning once shows his contempt of his own people. They royls thou I do love them and gave my oath to then when I served in military truly still lord over us mere mortals and I know that they do love the country of Scotland the dresly missed late queen Elizabeth II showd that and we ll I Cound wright paged about how I think she planned to be in Scotland at her end... If the coronation that His Majesty truly want to reform which he is doing then the stone of Scone / destiny /jacob would be present at the ceremony but NOT under the throne.in just a few days time we will know
Saw the replica of the stone at Scone Chapel when we visited the palace in 2010. I’d love to see the real thing, though.
I love cream and strawberry jam with scone.
Ireland wants the stone back, it was only meant to be borrowed for a few years ffs.
In 501 Prince Fergal Mor was sent over by the Irish High King to be come the Prince of Dalriada and the scone was sent as a symbol of the High Kings authority. In order to keep Dalriada under the High King the Irish county of Antrim was added to Dalriada. That is according to ecclesiastic records
I heard but don't know if true that the stone that the princess Scota brohht to Ireland was split in 2 one half came here to Scotland and the other half still remains in Ireland as the Blanrny Stone is that true a legend can be?
@@CMenzy lol, dont know about that but ecclesiastic records mention the scone coming over from Ireland. Between the Vikings and the Normans destroying records the only reliable one are the ecclesiastic records. Too many people try to hide matters that they dont like.
@@CMenzy there was a second coronation scone in Ireland used in the crowning of a High King however Cromwell smashed it and scattered it during his 11 yr war in Ireland
I also heard the stone was originally from the Irish.
@@CMenzy you do know the nonsense tale o queen scotia is what it is........a mythical tale. the stone of destiny is scottish.
Sounds like Edward got snookered with a fake stone. I read that the stone was brought from Ireland to Scotland so if it originated there it wouldn’t be from a Scottish quarry.
louchat333 you read wrong then....it's scottish. type in ....the stone of destiny -history,coronation meaning -facts.......the stone is scottish.
The story about the stone coming from Ireland has already been debunked. It came from Scotland and it was actually described as black in colour like a meteor.
no one does pageantry like the British, no one names pageantry better then British, there was a service just to welcome the stone in the Abbey !!
The British should return the 'Stone' to Israel since it is their history.
So it's an Irish stone? We'll take it back please
christopherbyrne.......nothin to do with ireland.
I'm not watching but I do support the royal family he's entitled to his royal grant and keeps are politicians in check
It must be remembered that the King of England is also the King of Scotland. Using a Scottish coronation stone is a reminder of that.
There is no monarch “of Scotland”. It is “of Scots”. It’s an important difference.
The 1320 Declaration of Arbroath - which was cited and acted upon in 1688/9 - reserves the rights of Scots to sack monarchs.
Not before 1603 when the King of Scots took the English throne ❤
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Descended from King James VI of Scotland via his daughter Elizabeth Stuart of Bohemia.
@@Valhalla88888 He was invited to sit on the English throne. He didn't take anything. Please don't distort history.
Still it was a scotch man on the English throne, funny that as the English tried for hundreds of years and failed.
They stole it from the Tuatha de Danann.
This is a very interesting story, but I find it very interesting that you made this video just a week after History Calling did the same. 😊😊
There is a referendum scheduled for this October (2023) for Scotland to once again be separate. It will be interesting to see if the agreement will be upheld should Scotland vote for separation.
It's funny how the two referenda questions were politically loaded. There should be a Scottish Referendum with the question 'Should Scotland leave the UK or remain? The EU referendum was not 'Should the UK be an independent country?'. In any event, Scotland should be given full tax-raising powers and the English subsidy should stop.
The Stone moving back to Westminster has been in the news for the past week or so - do keep up! And unless you've been living on another planet for the past year or so, you'll know another indyref is unlikely for at least 10 years.
That is false information. The UK government has not granted any second referendum on independence.
@@Alaois I just read up on this. I see that Ms. Sturgeon is working very hard to get a referendum approved. There's a narrow majority to maintain the status quo. The British Parliament is opposed. Their approval is required for a vote.
@@johnslaughter5475 - she's no longer First Minister.
It was never European like everything else in Europe.