June 1st photograph of Prince Charles meeting Lord and Lady Mansfield at Scone Palace, Scotland.
June 1st photograph of Prince Charles meeting Lord and Lady Mansfield at Scone Palace, Scotland.
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In 1498, the first Lord Mansfield, a descendant of Freskin de Moravia, a Flemish noble who came to Scotland and founded the Murray family, branched off from the Earls of Atholl, later the Dukes of Atholl. The Mansfields later became Lord Stormont. The Third Lord Stormont held the last coronation to be held in Scotland when Charles II was crowned at Moot Hill at Scone. A later member of the family, a brilliant lawyer, was Lord Chief Justice of England and Chancellor of the Exchequer, and was created Earl of Mansfield. The present Lord Mansfield is also the 13th Viscount Stormont and Lord Scone, 11th Lord Balvaird and Hereditary Keeper of Robert the Bruce's castle of Lochmaben in Dumfries.
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