[MR] BBC: England's Own Coronation Stone

[Garth Groff and Sally Sanford]

Noble Friends,

Lady Sarah Sinclair stumbled onto this very interesting story about
England's first coronation stone, and the oldest Royal Burgh in England,
Kingston-upon-Thames.

The English (or perhaps better to say Anglo-Saxon) stone is displayed in
Kingston-Upon-Thames, a borough within Greater London. It was the
coronation seat for seven Anglo-Saxon kings in the tenth century CE.

Kingston-upon-Thames received its first Royal Charter from Mary Tudor
(ayes, her, "Bloody Mary") in 1554. That year Sir Thomas Wyatt the Younger
and his army tried to cross the Thames at Kingston during Wyatt's
Rebellion. The citizens of Kingston broke their wooden bridge across the
Thames, but when Wyatt arrived on 6 February, his men were able to make
repairs and crossed safely over the Thames in their hopeless drive toward
London.

The BBC story is at
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20230502-kingston-upon-thames-londons-town-of-kings-and-queens
.

More about the Coronation Stone is found at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronation_Stone,_Kingston_upon_Thames .

For Wyatt's Rebellion and its causes see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyatt%27s_rebellion .

Yours Aye,


Mungo Napier, Laird of Mallard Lodge  🦆
Keeping Mary Rose relevant and in business for 16 years.