The Stone of Destiny

Happy Holidays all! This week we travel to Westminster Abbey on Christmas Day 1950. It’s four in the morning when a policeman comes across a young couple huddled together in their car. Like another young couple a few millennia before, they tell him they have come to town, only to find no room left at the inn. Little does the officer know, but he’d stumbled across a theft hundreds of years in the making. 

Sources Include: 

As I couldn’t find any books for this one, there were quite a few online articles - including. 

A copy of a news report two days after the theft. 

This ‘The National’ article on the Battle of Culloden, and the genocide that followed, by Hamish McPherson

This Smithsonian overview of the Scottish Independence movement by Meilan Solly

A Britannica entry on the Stone of Scone

A BBC Article (no author listed) on Alexander III of Scotland.

The Stone of Destiny (History UK) by Ben Johnson

A My Heritage page listing Tea Tephi

This ‘Tomorrow’s World’ article on the Prophet Jeremiah and his alleged arrival in Ireland.

This University of Glasgow article on Ian Hamilton and the Removal of the Stone of Scone

Another religious article (author not mentioned) about Jacob’s Ladder, his pillow, and his stupid claim God promised him Gaza.

This BBC article by Steven Brocklehurst about the Removal of the Stone of Scone

This Royal UK piece on James II

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