Royal Family News: What Is Queen Elizabeth’s Status If Scotland Withdraw From Treaty Of Union?

British royal family news reveals that a letter from James Cameron Stewart brings about an interesting question: the future of the monarchy in a self-governing Scotland. If and when such a change comes about he implies there will be no change in the status of Queen Elizabeth.

But if the referendum is based on a statement from the Treaty of Union of 1707, this could change. Readers of The National Scot shared their opinions on this pressing matter.

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Item one of the Treaty says, “the two kingdoms will be united – as Great Britain”; item two “that the succession of the monarchy – remain”. Thus the withdrawal means there would be no Great Britain and no United Kingdom,” pointed out one reader.

“I think I understand the argument that Scotland is not a colony, but I think we should remember what happened when a number of English MPs arrived en masse near the end of the 2014 campaign, to tell us how much they loved us. Not for nothing were they greeted, sarcastically, as “our colonial masters.”

“We may not be a colony in legal terms, but the objective in bribing and threatening us into the 1707 Union was surely about exercising control over Scotland. The contempt shown currently by English Tory MPs towards the SNP in the Wesminster parliament (with its procedures dating from before 1707) is reflective of a colonialist mindset.”

“Yes, Scots helped build and run the British Empire, so we are complicit, but one parallel might be with the Imperial Roman Army, which I understand was filled with troops from conquered lands. My own Irish ancestors were medics working for the British Colonial Service in South America, and Ireland surely was a colony.”

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Another reader writes, “historian Dr Alan Kennedy correctly points that Scotland was never colonised by England and in fact was an enthusiastic participant in the whole colonial enterprise. However, I completely disagree with him is where he states “ his Union is a voluntary one and parliament voted through the treaty.” as though it was a democratic decision. It was anything but.”

“The Union was detested by most citizens and there is a wealth of evidence to show this, most notably from Daniel Defoe, author, journalist and English Government agent who was in Edinburgh at the time. He wrote that there was hardly a man in the city who wished for the Union and how mobs roamed the streets to demonstrate against it. The Treaty was eventually signed secretly in a cellar, to avoid the anger of the citizens, and smuggled out of the city.”

The reader went on to say, “Of course everybody knows how a small group (fewer than 200 aristocrats) were bribed to sign the treaty. The document of payments called the “Equivalence” still exists and shows how major landowners such as the Duke of Hamilton were paid £20,000, while a few less important sold their country’s independence for £50 (the infamous Parcel of Rogues).”

“Additionally England was threatening all manner of sanctions on Scottish trade and making preparations for war.”

“It was simply coercion by a bullying neighbour aided by a small, corrupt and unrepresentative group of men who cared more for money than Scotland. Hardly voluntary.”

If anything the reader comments show that current events are arousing great emotion in Scotland.

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