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Sir Sean Connery\u2019s family have reportedly scattered his ashes in a private ceremony ahead of his 92nd birthday.<\/p>\n
The actor\u2019s widow Micheline Roquebrune, 93, is said to have travelled to his native Scotland with relatives for the ceremony to grant his last wish to be returned to his homeland.<\/p>\n
Sir Connery\u2019s actor son Jason, 59, and granddaughter Saskia are also understood to have made the trip to Scotland to bid a final farewell to the Indiana Jones and James Bond actor.<\/p>\n
A 50-strong entourage, dressed in tartan, are said to have arrived at Edinburgh Waverley station on board the Royal Scotsman train on Thursday to the sound of a trombonist playing \u2018King of the Swingers\u2019.<\/p>\n
Watch video<\/strong><\/p>\n A source told the Daily Record: \u201cI couldn\u2019t believe it when I saw Micheline and her party step off the train.<\/p>\n \u201cA trombonist began playing the famous song from the \u2018Jungle Book\u2019. Micheline walked very slowly arm in arm with a relative to her waiting car.<\/p>\n \u201cShe was small and petite but very, very glamorous and she was dressed in a beige cream coloured outfit as if she were going to a wedding. Everyone had on some sort of tartan.<\/p>\n \u201cWe understand Sir Sean\u2019s ashes were scattered at various different points of importance to him in his life. It has all been building up to their final destination which was Edinburgh and Dalmeny yesterday.<\/p>\n \u201cI thought it was brilliant to see the old-fashioned train and I felt like I was in some sort of movie scene.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was all so secretive because it\u2019s all about Sir Sean\u2019s final resting place.\u201d<\/p>\n The group were said to have been taken from the station in a fleet of people carriers, and are understood to have later held a birthday party in Sir Connery\u2019s memory at the Tudor Gothic mansion, Dalmeny.<\/p>\n His granddaughter Saskia shared a photograph of herself as a child with the actor, who would have toasted his 92nd birthday in October, alongside the caption: \u201cHappiest of birthdays to my superstar.\u201d<\/p>\n Sir Connery\u2019s widow said after his death at their home in the Bahamas in 2020: \u201cWe are going to bring Sean back to Scotland \u2013 that was his final wish.<\/p>\n \u201cHe wanted his ashes to be scattered in the Bahamas and also in his homeland.\u201d<\/p>\n She added earlier this year: \u201cHe was at his happiest on a golf course so as soon as it\u2019s possible to travel, we will come to Scotland as a family and bring Sean\u2019s ashes.<\/p>\n \u201cI hope to scatter them on a golf course in Scotland as he always loved playing there.\u201d<\/p>\n Jason, 59, had said in March his family would probably choose St Andrews to scatter the ashes because his dad had been a member of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club and regularly played the famous Old Course.<\/p>\n He added: \u201cI have memories of St Andrews always being sunny. It wasn\u2019t, but we had special times there.<\/p>\n \u201cHe was a member of the R and A so I think probably that might be the place.\u201d<\/p>\n Sir Connery said in 2008: \u201cScotland is my home and emotionally I\u2019ve never left.\u201d<\/p>\n