Removal of the Stone of Scone in 1950 I of England (Longshanks) in 1296 during the struggles against English invasion, which historians call the Scottish Wars of Independence as a spoil of war, kept in Westminster Abbey in London and fitted into King Edward's Chair. Subsequent English and then British monarchs were crowned sitting upon the chair and Stone. At the time, the Stone was viewed as a symbol of Scottish nationhood; by removing the Stone to London, Edward I was declaring himself 'King of the Scots'. In 1950, Ian Hamilton, a student at the University of Glasgow, approached Gavin Vernon with a plan to remove the Stone
Style of the monarchs of Scotland Style of the monarchs of Scotland Style of the monarchs of Scotland is about the styles and forms of address used by Scottish royalty, specifically the monarchs of Scotland from the earliest times until the present, including monarchs from the Pictish period to the British period. The earliest styles are those given in sources which have come down to us mainly from Ireland. These sources are generally reliable. For the earlier medieval period, "Annals of Ulster" (AU) and "Annals of Tigernach" (AT) derive from the "Iona Chronicle", a chronicle kept in Scotland. The "Annals of Innisfallen" are not as reliable,