Editing Stone of Scone (section)

===1914 suffragette bombing===
On 11 June 1914, as part of the [[suffragette bombing and arson campaign]] of 1912–1914, [[suffragette]]s of the [[Women's Social and Political Union]] planted a bomb loaded with metal bolts and nuts to act as shrapnel next to the Coronation Chair and Stone;<ref name="BL">{{Cite web |title=Suffragettes, violence and militancy |url=https://www.bl.uk/votes-for-women/articles/suffragettes-violence-and-militancy |access-date=2021-10-02 |website=The British Library |archive-date=10 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210910203912/https://www.bl.uk/votes-for-women/articles/suffragettes-violence-and-militancy |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="Webb">{{Cite book |last=Webb |first=Simon |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w2RtBQAAQBAJ |title=The Suffragette Bombers: Britain's Forgotten Terrorists |publisher=Pen and Sword |year=2014 |isbn=978-1783400645 |page=148 |language=en}}</ref> no serious injuries were reported in the aftermath of the subsequent explosion despite the building having been busy with 80–100 visitors,<ref name="Walker">{{Cite journal |last=Walker |first=Rebecca |year=2020 |title=Deeds, Not Words: The Suffragettes and Early Terrorism in the City of London |url=https://doi.org/10.1080/03058034.2019.1687222 |journal=The London Journal |volume=45 |issue=1 |page=59 |doi=10.1080/03058034.2019.1687222 |issn=0305-8034 |s2cid=212994082}}</ref><ref name="Jones">{{Cite book |last=Jones |first=Ian |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IjSwDQAAQBAJ |title=London: Bombed Blitzed and Blown Up: The British Capital Under Attack Since 1867 |publisher=Frontline Books |year=2016 |isbn=978-1473879010 |page=65 |language=en}}</ref> but the deflagration blew off a corner of the Coronation Chair<ref name="BL" /><ref name="Webb" /> and broke the Stone in half – although this was not discovered until 1950, when four Scottish nationalists [[1950 removal of the Stone of Scone|broke into the church to steal the stone]] and return it to Scotland.<ref name="Webb" /> Two days after the Westminster Abbey bombing, a second suffragette bomb was discovered before it could explode in [[St Paul's Cathedral]].<ref name="BL" />