Another Day, Another Peacock

This time at Scone (pronounced “skoon”)Palace, the traditional sight of the crowning of the Scottish kings.  (We are definitely on a royal theme this Jubilee weekend) A beautiful warm, blue sky day.  The palace is still lived in by the Earl of Mansfield so we got to tour only the first floor formal rooms which were all stunning but most impressive was the Long Gallery where Scottish kings walked on their way to be crowned.  We walked in the footsteps of, among others, Macbeth and Robert the Bruce!  This is where the Stone of Destiny was kept.  Henry, Lord Mousefield, posed on the the stone but I didn’t have the heart to tell him it was just a replica. There will be no living with him now.  The real stone resides in the Edinburgh Castle, or does it?  There is a bit of a mystery about it.  The maze, planted with 2000 beech trees in 1991, was beautiful but we didn’t walk it.  I did have a lovely Scone scone with jam and clotted cream.  Yum!