Stone Of Destiny Is Fake, Claims Alex Salmond

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 6-16-2008 | Auslan Cramb

[Drammach]

when was the last time “the stone cried out”?”

1002 AD, the recognition of Brian Boru as High King of Ireland.

[Mr. K]

And I’ve got the stone of silliness

[tarheelswamprat]

Well, we Americans have our own “Stone of Density”, aka John McCain’s brain...

[mass55th]

"Sounds like a good plot for National Treasure 3 . . ."

Excellent!!

[pgkdan]

German.

Really? Who might that king be?

[mass55th]

Here's another article about Mike from an Australian newspaper. I managed to download a program from a UK website a few years ago. It was entitled "The Real King of England," and it was pretty interesting:

Aussie Mike the True King of England

[twigs]

Yes, there are English people. But they are not the royals; the royals are German which goes back to, someone correct me if I’m wrong, 1714 after the death of Queen Anne. None of her many children outlived her and there was fear of a Catholic retaking the throne. So the closest Protestant Stuart descendent was found in Hanover and he became King George I.

[Salamander]

It was a somewhat snarkey, rhetorical question but thanks for answering....;D

[colorado tanker]

The Tudors considered themselves Welsh, but Elizabeth I was the last of the line.

[colorado tanker]

A great example of liberal thinking, blam. The Minister feels the stone isn't genuine, therefore it isn't.

Given what we know about Edward, I rather doubt anyone could have denied him what he wanted.

[SampleMan]

German.

Really? Who might that king be?

The house of Windsor springs from the marriage of Queen Victoria to Prince Albert in 1840. He was the son of the Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha in Germany and his name became that used by the British royal family.

A bit of a mouthful, Saxe-Coburg-Gotha turned out not to be Albert's real surname, which was Wettin, the name of another aristocratic German dynasty.

It was only in 1917 that George V, worried by the anti-German feeling caused by the first world war, ordered the royal family to scrap Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and Wettin for Windsor.

Matters are still not that simple. The name of the royal house is Windsor, but the surname of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh [Prince Philip] is Mountbatten-Windsor. The duke is also from the house of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg and so, arguably, are his heirs.

Finally, Mountbatten is an Anglo translation of the actual name, Batttenburg.

[editor-surveyor]

To the extent that they claim it to be the stone on which Jacob rested his head, it clearly is a fake. That stone could not have come from Israel.

[editor-surveyor]

"A spokesman for Westminster Abbey said she had always believed the stone was genuine."

Beliefs and feelings trump all!

[editor-surveyor]

Since Jeremiah never made it to Ireland, we can be confident that the rest of the story is equally reliable.

[Salamander]

LOL!

[ApplegateRanch]

Correct! The King isn’t English; the King is a fink!

The Queen, OTOH....

[ApplegateRanch]

Petrified scone? Put some Devon clotted cream on it, and pass it off as genuine Dwarf bread.

[happygrl]

http://www.biblemysteries.com/library/coronation.htm
http://www.biblemysteries.com/library/jeremiah.htm
Make of it what you will.

[happygrl]

Queen Elizabeth II and her forbears are German, descendents of King George III, who spoke German, not English.

[happygrl]

See my post #58.

I believe this may be the source of the "British-Israelite" fable.