Brexit

Inside The Royal Family Split Over Brexit

As the Daily Beast revealed, the Queen had been a proponent of Brexit in private conversations, asking her dinner guests in the run up to the vote to give her ‘three good reasons’ why Britain should have remained part of Europe.

Brexit is a far from unwelcome political development in the UK as far as the Queen is concerned; earlier this week she told Northern Ireland’s First Minister Martin McGuinness that she was ‘still alive’ although there had been ‘a lot going on.’ 

She implied she was talking about her 90th birthday celebrations but she was undoubtedly seeking to also convey a message that post-Brexit, we should all keep calm and carry on.

Although there was a brief panic that Scotland might seek to break away from the United Kingdom as the result of the vote, this possibility has existed more strongly in the mind of Nicola Sturgeon, the nationalist first minister of Scotland, and in media scare stories, than it has in reality.