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King Charles and Scotland’s coronation treasures
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Edinburgh Castle looms above this Scottish city.
PHOTO: RONAN O’CONNELL
Ronan O'Connell
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SCOTLAND – The coronation of King Charles III in London was so spectacular that it left the story of two Scottish royal treasures in the shadows.
During that May coronation at Westminster Abbey, the King was perched on an ancient coronation throne. Inside it was placed the Stone of Destiny, a 150kg boulder cloaked in centuries of mystique.
