I always though that when that bunch of independance minded Freds, after outwitting Gluon the guard dog, who got distracted whilst trying to decide if his tail existed, so he could chase it, stole the stone from under the throne of MOAB, and hid it behind that waterfall on the Stilly River, Rapiere recoved a fake and the real one was being held in waiting to crown Bonnie Prince Kandhu when he returns.

Or is that just what we tell the tourists, along with the superior flavour of the anticlockwise haggis and such like?