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On 25 December 1950, four Scottish students from the University of Glasgow (Ian Hamilton, Gavin Vernon, Kay Matheson and Alan Stuart[1]) removed the Stone of Scone from Westminster Abbey in London and took it back to Scotland.[2][3] The students were members of the Scottish Covenant Association, a group that supported home rule for Scotland.[2] In 2008, the incident was made into a film called Stone of Destiny.[4] It seems likely that the escapade was based on the fictional account of a plot by Scottish Nationalists to liberate the Stone of Destiny from Westminster Cathedral and to return it to Scotland, as told in Compton Mackenzie's novel The North Wind of Love Bk.1, published six years earlier in 1944.[citation needed]
- ^ "Biography of Alan Stuart". University of Glasgow.
- ^ a b "Gavin Vernon". The Daily Telegraph. 26 March 2004. Archived from the original on 25 January 2014. Retrieved 1 January 2013.
- ^ "Defining our destiny". The Scotsman. 29 March 2004. Archived from the original on 27 December 2013. Retrieved 1 January 2013.
- ^ "Film review: Stone of Destiny". The Scotsman. 3 October 2008. Archived from the original on 27 February 2014. Retrieved 1 January 2013.