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Inverlochy Castle
Tucked away in the industrial outskirts of Fort William is this gaunt fortress that once stood at the heart of Scottish power
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The Stone of Scone: a mystery in two parts
I wondered how many of you would know the answer to my latest history quiz, which asked which Scottish monarch was the last to be crowned on the Stone of Destiny, otherwise known as the Stone of Scone. The answer, as about 43% of you knew, was John Balliol, in 1292. Sadly for John, history remembers him as a weak and ineffectual king, both as a ruler of his people and as a commander of Scottish forces. It may well have been, of course, that he just didn’t want to be king, because he ended up fleeing to France and spending the rest of his days there. The stone which…