Marjorie Bruce was named after her father's mother, Marjorie, Countess of Carrick. According to legend, Marjorie's parents had been very much in love, and Robert the Bruce did not remarry until 1302 (six years after his first wife’s death), to a courtier named Elizabeth de Burgh. On 27 March 1306, her father was crowned King of Scots at Scone, Perthshire, and Marjorie, then 10 years old, became a Princess of Scotland. Three months after the coronation, in June, 1306, her father was defeated at the Battle of Methven. He sent his wife, two sisters, and Marjorie north with his supporter Isabella MacDuff,
The Scots Kirk, Paris "Chariots of Fire", but the building used as the Scots Kirk in the film was actually the former Broughton Church in Edinburgh. During the negotiations for the Treaty of Versailles both the American President Woodrow Wilson and British Prime Minister David Lloyd George worshipped at the church. The current minister is Rev Jan Steyn who has been minister since April 2017. Though fully part of the Church of Scotland and conscious of its Scottish connections, the Scots Kirk primarily seeks to offer English-language Presbyterian, Reformed Christian worship and pastoral care to an international congregation. The Scots Kirk, Paris The Scots