A YEAR on from the Queen’s death, it’s clear that the monarchy in Scotland should have ended with her death. When we think of Britishness, the…
The State Gun Carriage carries the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II, draped in the Royal Standard with the Imperial State Crown and the Sovereign's orb and sceptre, in the Ceremonial Procession following her State Funeral at Westminster Abbey, London.
I’m of the opinion that the institution, at the very least, should have died in Scotland with the Queen, especially when its continued existence has resulted in outrageous decisions like the erection of portraits of the King in Scottish public buildings amid a cost of living crisis at an estimated expense of £8 million.
In a Union that is now, more than ever, divided by wealth, it only stands to reason that people would have a problem with a family who were quite literally born with silver spoons in their mouths. While there’s an argument to be made that the monarchy brings a lot of tourists into the UK, and especially London, I seriously doubt that many who involved themselves in the death of the Queen in Scotland would have bothered to see her cortege if it hadn’t passed by their very doorsteps.Hall, I went for the spectacle more than anything – the queue was something of a physical endurance test – and the story .
Like myself, she wanted to write about the event and admitted that as a former monarchist, she wanted to see if she’d experience any emotion upon seeing the coffin but admitted that she didn’t feel “very much”. It shouldn’t be either, especially in Scotland where the First Minister only this week pledged to introduce a bill in the new parliamentary year to protect Scottish languages – namely, Scots and Scottish Gaelic – again reinforcing the fact that Scotland very much has a different cultural identity from the rest of the supposedly United Kingdom.
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