Buckingham Palace confirmed date for King Charles III's coronation.
, a 336-pound block of sandstone on which Scottish kings were crowned for centuries, was to be brought to England for Charles' coronation.
The stone was stolen by an invading English king in 1296 and remained in England for 700 years before finally being returned to Scotland by the British Government in 1996. is also likely to make an appearance at the coronation, as it has at the coronation of almost every English sovereign for more than 700 years. The crown has a checkered history among Charles' namesakes: The original was broken up by order of Parliament in 1649, during the same war that led to Charles I's execution.
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