Clann an Drumma, one of the most hard core of the Celtic trad bands performing at Scone Palace. Scone is the site where the Kings of Scotland were crowned. The King would sit upon the Stone of Scone and the crown would be placed upon his head.
The Stone of Scone was removed by Edward I (Longshanks) after he conquered Scotland. He thought that losing the stone would bring home to the Scots that they were a defeated people and now a part of his English realm.
Instead the legend of the "Stone of Destiny" was born. It was said that wherever the stone rested a Scot was destined to rule. The legend was apparently born out when Queen Elizabeth I died childless and left her throne to her cousin James VI who became James I of England and the first "King of Great Britain".
After Robert the Bruce won Independence from England an attempt was made to return the Stone to Scotland, but a London mob would not allow the Stone to be removed from Westminster Abbey, where Edward had placed it.
The Stone was finally returned to Scotland on 30 November, 1996 and installed at Edinburgh Castle. If the legend of the Stone of Destiny is true then we can expect the movement for Scottish Independence to be successful and for there to once again be a King reigning in an independent Kingdom of Scotland.
The Stone of Scone.
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