![]() ![]() Yet the first monarch we know for sure was crowned in Kingston, in 925, was the first genuine king of a recognisable England and arguably of Britain – Athelstan.īy chance, we know a bit about his coronation, because a version of the order of service survives. This is said to be, and plausibly is, the seat on which a series of Anglo-Saxon kings were crowned in the tenth and eleventh centuries in the predecessor of Kingston’s All Saints Church.įor me, the relative anonymity of the Kingston stone epitomises the neglect of the Anglo-Saxon kings in our own historical memory, as if English history only began in 1066. ![]() Just off the High Street of Kingston-upon-Thames – there’s a clue in the name – you will find the other Coronation Stone. But there is another coronation stone in this country and it goes even further back. ![]() We all saw the return to Westminster this week of the Stone of Scone, the ancient seat on which Scottish, English, and British monarchs have been crowned. ![]()
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