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Denzil_DC

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6. I don't know whether that question's ever been polled.
Tue Mar 12, 2019, 08:33 AM
Mar 2019

However, during the 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum, Nicola Sturgeon's line was that the Queen would remain as head of state (possibly similar to the situation with countries such as Canada and Australia, though details such as whether there'd be a governor generalship were scant as the issue wasn't really debated).

I suspect it wasn't a fight worth picking given the range of other controversial issues at the time.

I think attitudes in Scotland (indeed, in the UK as a whole, and perhaps the Commonwealth) toward the royal family and the role of the Crown will change a good deal once Elizabeth is no longer queen. And after independence, no Scottish government would be bound by anything that wasn't in a new Scottish constitution anyway, and even if it was in the original version, it could later be amended (hopefully not by referendum!).

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