Question: When was the Stone of Destiny returned to the country where the same individual who invited Chopin there, also gave him a loan for an apartment?

from 1842 onwards, chopin showed signs of serious illness. after a solo recital in paris on 21 february 1842, he wrote to grzymała: "i have to lie in bed all day long, my mouth and tonsils are aching so much." he was forced by illness to decline a written invitation from alkan to participate in a repeat performance of the beethoven seventh symphony arrangement at erard's on 1 march 1843. late in 1844, charles hallé visited chopin and found him "hardly able to move, bent like a half-opened penknife and evidently in great pain", although his spirits returned when he started to play the piano for his visitor. chopin's health continued to deteriorate, particularly from this time onwards. modern research suggests that apart from any other illnesses, he may also have suffered from temporal lobe epilepsy. <SEP> In June 1849 his sister Ludwika came to Paris with her husband and daughter, and in September, supported by a loan from Jane Stirling, he took an apartment at Place Vendôme 12. With his health further deteriorating, Chopin desired to have a family member with him. After 15 October, when his condition took a marked turn for the worse, only a handful of his closest friends remained with him, although Viardot remarked sardonically that "all the grand Parisian ladies considered it de rigueur to faint in his room." <SEP> chopin seldom performed publicly in paris. in later years he generally gave a single annual concert at the salle pleyel, a venue that seated three hundred. he played more frequently at salons, but preferred playing at his own paris apartment for small groups of friends. the musicologist arthur hedley has observed that "as a pianist chopin was unique in acquiring a reputation of the highest order on the basis of a minimum of public appearances—few more than thirty in the course of his lifetime." the list of musicians who took part in some of his concerts provides an indication of the richness of parisian artistic life during this period. examples include a concert on 23 march 1833, in which chopin, liszt and hiller performed (on pianos) a concerto by j.s. bach for three keyboards; and, on 3 march 1838, a concert in which chopin, his pupil adolphe gutmann, charles-valentin alkan, and alkan's teacher joseph zimmermann performed alkan's arrangement, for eight hands, of two movements from beethoven's 7th symphony. chopin was also involved in the composition of liszt's hexameron; he wrote the sixth (and final) variation on bellini's theme. chopin's music soon found success with publishers, and in 1833 he contracted with maurice schlesinger, who arranged for it to be published not only in france but, through his family connections, also in germany and england. <SEP> She clearly had a notion of going beyond mere friendship, and Chopin was obliged to make it clear to her that this could not be so. He wrote at this time to Grzymała "My Scottish ladies are kind, but such bores", and responding to a rumour about his involvement, answered that he was "closer to the grave than the nuptial bed." In late summer he was invited by Jane Stirling to visit Scotland, where he stayed at Calder House near Edinburgh and at Johnstone Castle in Renfrewshire, both owned by members of Stirling's family. He gave a public concert in Glasgow on 27 September, and another in Edinburgh, at the Hopetoun Rooms on Queen Street (now Erskine House) on 4 October. In late October 1848, while staying at 10 Warriston Crescent in Edinburgh with the Polish physician Adam Łyszczyński, he wrote out his last will and testament—"a kind of disposition to be made of my stuff in the future, if I should drop dead somewhere", he wrote to Grzymała. <SEP> In 1996, in a symbolic response to growing dissatisfaction among Scots at the prevailing constitutional settlement, the British Government decided that the stone should be kept in Scotland when not in use at coronations. The stone arrived in the Castle on 30 November 1996, St Andrew's Day, where the official handover ceremony occurred. On 3 July 1996, it was announced in the House of Commons that the stone would be returned to Scotland, and on 15 November 1996, after a handover ceremony at the border between representatives of the Home Office and of the Scottish Office, it was transported to Edinburgh Castle. Prince Andrew, Duke of York, representing Queen Elizabeth II, formally handed over the Royal Warrant transferring the stone into the safekeeping of the Commissioners for the Regalia. It currently remains alongside the crown jewels of Scotland, the Honours of Scotland, in the Crown Room.