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In 1996 the stone was returned to Scotland amid great pomp, though it will make the journey to Westminster Abbey in London when the next coronation of a British monarch takes place.
In 1979 the nationalists were in disarray when a referendum was defeated, and further efforts came to nought during Conservative rule in the British Parliament at Westminster through the 1980s and early 1990s.
At the same time, the charge made most memorably by her brother, Earl Spencer, at her funeral in Westminster Abbey, that paparazzi were responsible for her death, has been implicitly rejected by her executors, who, according to the Sunday Times of London (quoting "senior royal sources"), are preparing to sue Mohamed al-Fayed's Ritz Hotel in Paris for at least $13 million for allowing the hotel security man Henri Paul to drive her when he had three times the legally permitted amount of alcohol in his blood.
It is they, therefore, as much as anybody, who are to blame for the continuing fiction that Abingdon means town of the abbey, that Boston is named for St. Botolph, that Coventry means place of the abbey, that the second word of Leighton Buzzard represents French beau désert, that Lichfield means field of the corpses, that Maidstone means Medway town, that Morpeth means moor path, that Redruth means town of the Druids, that Southend is so called because it is at the southern end of Essex, that Westminster is a minster west of St. Paul's Cathedral, and so on.
Switching its echoes from Westminster to Buckingham Palace, Parliament Hill provides pomp with a Changing of the Guard by 125 soldiers of the Governor General’s Foot Guards (June 23 to August 25, 2001 at 9:45 a.m).
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