The Crown of Defiance – Robert the Bruce’s Palm Sunday Coronation on March 25, 1306, That Turned a Churchyard Murder and a Rain-Soaked Throne into Scotland’s Unbreakable Freedom
On March 25, 1306—Palm Sunday in the Christian calendar, a day of processions with palms and hymns of triumph—a small, rain-lashed gathering assembled at the ancient abbey of Scone in Perthshire, Scotland. No golden throne waited; Edward I of England had carted the legendary Stone of Destiny south to Westminster years earlier. No vast army […]
