A new documentary explores Hugh MacDiarmid - and other Scots writers - plotted their own heists of the Stone of Destiny
Now a new documentary has revealed how earlier plots to retrieve the ancient symbol of Scotland’s monarchy – including using the disguise of an elderly woman in a wheelchair – were doomed.
“And in this particular instance, they’d be discussing their plans to remove the Stone of Destiny from Westminster Abbey at the tops of their voices, so that anybody who happened to be lugging into this would be quite clear what their intentions were. A few years later, MacDiarmid was still keen on the idea and even lined up someone to be able to drive a “fast car” which he believed was a key part of the plan to whisk the Stone back to Scotland.
“The sad thing was that one of the conspirators was a student at the time, but unfortunately he had a liking for alcohol,” he said.
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