Britain's royal wedding, watched by billions, is significant not so much for the royal pomp surrounding it, but for one key missing element. This was the first time that a famous block of sandstone, once resident under King Edward's chair in Westminster Abbey, was missing from that place in the continuum of a line of royal weddings since King Edward took the stone forcefully from the Scots in a.d. 1296.
Queen Elizabeth, in concert with the British Parliament, permitted the stone of
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