The Scottish Crown Jewels and the Minister's Wife [Illustrated] [Paperback]

Jimmy Powdrell Campbell (Author)

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Publication Date: 1 Nov 2007

In 1651, Oliver Cromwell invaded Scotland and desperately wanted to get hold of the Scottish Honours, or crown jewels, the symbol of the spirit and soul of Scotland, in order to destroy these icons and further his Parliamentarian cause. In a desperate bid to save the Regalia from certain destruction, a local minister, James Granger, and his wife Christian Fletcher entered the stronghold of Stonehaven Castle in order to rescue them from under the noses of the English. By hiding the jewels under her skirts, Christian Fletcher got away and buried them in the graveyard of the local church for safety. Together with her husband, Fletcher protected the Crown Jewels for eight long years, until the political changes of the Restoration meant it was safe to return them to their rightful place. But in the muddy waters of history, the name Christian Fletcher has been long forgotten, and a local Marshall, John Keith, took the credit for the safekeeping of the jewels, saying he kept them overseas for safety during the eight-year period. Granted the Earldom of Balfour for his supposed heroic role, this reward has remained in his family for hundreds of years, while the names Granger and Fletcher have been lost in the depths of time. In this amazing account of one woman s fight to protect her country, Jimmy Powdrell Campbell uses incredible letters between John Granger and John Keith's mother, the local countess, to reconstruct the truth about the missing Scottish Crown Jewels. In a tale of indescribable bravery and undeserved glory, he reveals for the first time the extent to which the current existence of the Scottish Crown Jewels relies on the actions of a daring minister's wife, and how the credit for such an important undertaking has still, 400 years on, been given to the wrong man.

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Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: The History Press Ltd (1 Nov 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0752440292
ISBN-13: 978-0752440293
Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 15.6 x 2.2 cm
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 863,833 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Jimmy Powdrell Campbell is a historian, composer and web designer and wrote a BBC Radio Scotland dramatisation of his research on the Scottish Crown Jewels. He has researched several other areas of Scottish history, and has participated in BBC documentaries and contributed to various radio and TV programmes. He lives in Glasgow

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2.0 out of 5 stars novel 4 Feb 2013

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I thought this was oart of "The Ministers Wife series." It is not. Shipped from Great Britain. I did not finished it.

2.0 out of 5 stars Think twice... 23 July 2008

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Have you ever picked up a book and just a few pages into the read you realize the author has an agenda? Well this is one of those books and I would think twice about reading it for anything more than one man's opinion. What is bothersome is his choice of volatile words to describe the Covenanters that makes this interpretation suspect. It really glosses over Charles I's desire to control the Scottish Church and make it Anglican and he questions the Scots rights to define their own Kirk. . He also portrays the Church of Scotland's treatment of the Catholics as horrible yet never acknowledges the long history of Roman Catholic Church's dominance to remove any bit of remaining elements of the Celtic Church which may explain the Scots resentment toward Charles's Anglican church? Clearly he blames them for the fall of Charles I ( as if Charles didn't cause most of it himself). The author's name calling and distortion of the history is offensive.

If you must read it, read with an open mind, clearly something the author doesn't have. I was looking for an interesting read on the history of the story on the protection of the Scottish Crown Jewels during the Cromwellian era, what I got was a diatribe against Covenanters of the period and how noble the Scottish Catholics were. The book should come with a disclaimer.

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