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Stone of Destiny (film)
Stone of Destiny
is a 2008 Scottish-Canadian
adventure
/
comedy
film written and directed by
Charles Martin Smith
and starring
Charlie Cox
,
Billy Boyd
,
Robert Carlyle
, and
Kate Mara
. Based on real events, the film tells the story of
the theft
of the
Stone of Scone
on
Christmas Day
, 1950. The stone, supposedly the
Stone of Jacob
over which Scottish Kings were traditionally crowned at
Scone
in
Perthshire
, was stolen by King
Edward I of England
in 1296 and placed under the throne at
Westminster Abbey
in London. In 1950, a group of student Scottish nationalists succeeded in removing it from Westminster Abbey and returning it to
Scotland
where it was placed symbolically at
Arbroath Abbey
, the site of the signing of the
Declaration of Arbroath
and an important site in the Scottish nationalist cause.
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