There can be few places in Scotland as historically potent as
Scone Palace. When you visit Scone Palace you are walking in the footsteps of
Scotland’s ancient founding fathers, both pagan and
Christian.
It was an important religious gathering place of the Picts, and it was the site
of an early Christian church.
Robert the Bruce was crowned at Scone in 1306 and the last
coronation was of Charles II, when he accepted the Scottish crown in 1651. The
place of coronation was called Caislean Credi, 'Hill of Credulity', which
survives as the present Moot Hill.
The present owner, the 8th Earl of Mansfield, William
David
Murray, succeeded his father in 1971. He is married to Pamela, daughter of
Wilfred Neill Foster, CBE. Lord Mansfield is also 13th Viscount Stormont and
Lord Scone, 11th Lord Balvaird and Hereditary Keeper of Bruce’s Castle of
Lochmaben. Lord Mansfield has three children. His eldest son, Alexander, by
courtesy Viscount Stormont, is the heir.
