Stone of Destiny

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura

Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.6 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

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This giant rock has been used in the coronation of every English monarch since the 1300s, but is it authentic? Or could the real one be in a Scottish bar? We parse through the evidence and debate! READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/glasgows-stone-of-destiny

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0:00.0	Hey Dylan. Hi Amanda how you doing good. So today we're obviously talking over
0:06.7	Zoom but I thought you know to shake things up a bit why don't instead we imagine
0:10.2	that we are in a more grand location.
0:12.9	So why don't we go to Westminster Abbey,
0:16.6	which is this Grand Cathedral in London.
0:19.2	Yeah, and we're gonna go in particular
0:21.1	to May 6th, 2023, which was the date of King Charles Coronation.
0:26.5	So picture, you know, everyone around us is in like furs and jewels and there's like incense in the air.
0:34.1	Amazing, I love it in here.
0:36.1	Yes.
0:37.0	So I want to draw your attention in particular
0:40.7	to this throne that King Charles is being crowned on. So I'm
0:46.1	showing you a photo of it now. Can you see this kind of like very old looking
0:50.2	wooden throne? I mean this looks like a king's throne. It's like this
0:56.5	ornate carved pretty uncomfortable looking but very fancy chair.
1:02.3	Definitely and if you look on the bottom I don't know looking but very fancy chair.
1:02.6	Definitely and if you look on the bottom I don't know if you can see this in this photo
1:06.4	but there's something like underneath it can you see that?
1:09.8	Yeah, it's got like what looks to be an enormous rock in it.
1:19.0	Yes.
1:20.0	Is that what I'm seeing?
1:22.0	That is exactly what you're seeing.
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