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Ah! Some of those students were rooming at an aunt’s place.
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Stole? I think the word is “retrieved”.
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And here I thought that Pratchett’s story
https://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/Scone_of_Stone
was a feat of total imagination! O Pterry, we miss you so much.
I salute you, Ian Hamilton!
Here’s the Hamilton tartan by way of thanks:
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This is a fun fictionalised movie about the caper:
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As I understand it, putting a ‘sacred stone’ under a throne’s seat used to be quite common. Mystical tradition; the stones would bring ‘sacred energy’ into the ruler or something like that.
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Then, just over 300 years later, a Scot sat on the throne of England.
I don’t think Edward I thought that through properly.
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Scone in this context is pronounced to rhyme not with “stone” or “gone” but with ‘‘spoon’’.
(Although Shakespeare rhymes it with ‘‘one’’ in the last two lines of Macbeth)
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IIRC, Roger Daltry had something to do with it.
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This interests me.
Would you be willing to list your source(s) or citation(s) here?
Whenever possible, I try to sound the least idiotic I can manage, and I thank you in advance for your help. As a U.S. midwesterner, with a love of history and the English language it all its variable forms, I find it does take work every single day.
Sometimes the work is fun:
from it, this:
Surely the Scots were double-plus unfond of that “Hammer of the Scots” whose son (Ed II)
ends up in the Battle of Bannockburn [in Scotland, yes]. Spoiler alert: Robert the Bruce kicks English arse.
Battle of Bannockburn 1314 - Two Men in a Trench
In this story the Scots, persistent, patient, working against against heavy odds, have long interested me. Now that I know of the Stone of Scone in added detail, the history just gets more interesting all the time.
The Stone of Scone was clearly taken [back] on King George’s watch…
… strangely his Wikipedia entry lacks this historic detail. Hmpf! (Is there where I finally cave in and start an account on Wikipedia?)
Oh dear oh dear that the stone (after going back and forth for a bit) was only actually “returned” to Scotland for real in 1996.
ETA: trouble getting the Youtube link formatted properly
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