In the 10th century CE – Kingston Upon Thames was the place for Anglo-Saxon Kings to be crowned. At least seven were crowned on this stone which used to reside in a local church – but which is now situated outside Kingston’s Guildhall.
King Edward the Elder – 900
King Athelstan – 925
King Edmund – 940
King Edred – 946
King Edwy – 956
King Edward the Martyr – 975
Ethelred the Unready – 979
King Athelstan is particularly famous for marching out of his country of ‘Mercia’ and successfully invading and defeating all the different ‘countries’ that existed in the British Isles (including Scotland, Wales, Northumbria, Danelaw, Wessex and Cornwall) – making him the first King of a ‘United Kingdom’.
SANGHA KOMMUNE (SSR) 