It remained in England for 700 years and formed part of the coronation chair on which kings and ... also known as the Stone of Scone, is 66cm (26in) long, 42cm (17in) wide, and 27cm (10.5in ...

The King sat in the Coronation Chair for some of the key moments of his coronation ... chair as a ‘relic case’ to house the Stone of Destiny, also known as the Stone of Scone. As an ancient symbol of ...

The historic coronation chair, a centrepiece of the ceremony ... The chair was designed to enclose the Stone of Scone, which had been seized from Scotland by Edward I - and the stone, which ...

had the coronation chair built around it and crowned himself King of England and Scotland. Edward had swiped the Stone from the Perthshire Abbey of Scone (rhymes in Scotland with boon, in England ...

King Edward I called for it to be made in 1296 so that the Westminster Abbey-based chair could also contain the Stone of Scone, the coronation stone of Scotland, also known as the Stone of Destiny.

Having seized it from Scone Abbey, Edward installed the Stone in the Coronation Chair at Westminster Abbey. Thus, it has been at subsequent coronations of English then British kings and queens ...

The Stone of Destiny, also known as the Stone of Scone, has played a central role in Scottish and British history. It was ...

The crown will be placed on Charles' head as he sits in the Coronation Chair suspended over the Stone of Scone (pronounced "scoon") - the sacred slab of sandstone on which Scottish kings were crowned.