rab-k, I would have thought it most unlikely that she would say any such thing, regardless (as usual when acting in a constitutional capacity) of her own opinions on the matter.
Really? Didn't stop her dipping a regal toe into the Devo' debate back in '77:
The problems of progress, the complexities of modern administration, the feeling that Metropolitan Government is too remote from the lives of ordinary men and women, these among other things have helped to revive an awareness of historic national identities in these Islands.
They provide the background for the continuing and keen discussion of proposals for devolution to Scotland and Wales within the United Kingdom. I number Kings and Queens of England and of Scotland, and Princes of Wales among my ancestors and so I can readily understand these aspirations.
But I cannot forget that I was crowned Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Perhaps this Jubilee is a time to remind ourselves of the benefits which union has conferred, at home and in our international dealings, on the inhabitants of all parts of this United Kingdom.
Althenick-
I thought it was the demise of the
politcal union we were discussing, not the
regal union. All that might change in that respect is that HMQ would be known here as Elizabeth
, Queen of Scots. (A term already used by the then Sir David, now Lord, Steel to address Her Majesty, in person, at the 1999 opening of the Scottish Parliament).