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Divided Loyalties - Bruce Takes The Thrown

3 July 2009

The year is 1306 and news reaches St Andrews Castle that Robert the Bruce has been declared king. Visitors to the castle on Sunday, 19 July can watch events unfold as a group of Scots discuss the issue and find their loyalties are divided. Some think the new King Robert I will allow them to throw off the yoke of English rule.

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