Made now into a film, this is story which has touched most Scottish hearts. The removal of the stone of Scone from Westminster Abbey was front page news within hours of the event occurring on Christmas morning 1950. I was not even born then but have been fascinated by these legendary thieves since many years.
Scotland Yard began a frantic search for the stone, to me even the name Scotland Yard conjured up all these Scottish ! policemen involved in a search for something they must have thought...
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