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The Coronation Stone, or Stone of Scone, was originally used
at the crowning of Scottish kings and was kept at Scone Abbey near Perth until
1296 when Edward I pinched it and put it in Westminster Abbey in London. There
it remained until Christmas day 1950 when 4 students stole it and took it back
to Scotland. Despite a nationwide search it was not recovered until it
reappeared in Arbroath Abbey in April 1951, and the English police returned it
to Westminster. Or did they? There were rumours that the stone recovered was
not the real one. But then there were also rumours that the stone taken by
Edward I was not the real one. Who knows?
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