Stone of Destiny (film) Stone of Destiny (film) Stone of Destiny is a 2008 Scottish-Canadian historical 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 removal of the Stone of Scone from Westminster Abbey. The stone, supposedly the Stone of Jacob over which Scottish monarchs 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 Scottish nationalist students succeeded in
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,