New monarch gives fresh impetus to Scotland’s independence debate

Members of the Royal Regiment of Scotland rehearse on the eve of the Royal Mile outside of St Giles' Cathedral in Edinburgh on September 10, 2022, two days after Queen Elizabeth II died at the age of 96. - AFPPIX: Queen Elizabeth II’s death in Scotland indelibly associates the nation with the handover to a new monarch, but her passing also reignites the debate over Scottish independence from the UK.

One 22-year-old woman was detained for a breach of the peace for holding a placard with an obscene anti-monarchy slogan just before the proclamation, while there was also some booing. Yet many others who expressed their admiration for the late monarch saw it as separate from their desire to be an independent nation.“The royal family is as much Scottish as they are anything else,“ she told AFP, while urging them to become “more relevant and current”.“Some Scots will consider this end of an era a natural moment for a fresh start,“ Scottish journalist Alex Massie wrote in The Times.

“King Charles will love Scotland just as much as the queen. But he simply doesn’t have her authority.” “The passing of the Crown is a moment of frailty, perhaps even fragility,“ Adam Tomkins, a constitutional lawyer and professor at the University of Glasgow, noted in The Herald newspaper. Then-prime minister David Cameron was caught saying that she “purred down the phone” when he reported victory for the anti-independence campaign -- an indiscretion for which he subsequently apologised.Charles will have his first audience with Sturgeon on Monday when he returns to Scotland to lead a procession of his mother’s coffin to St Giles’ Cathedral in Edinburgh, and then hold a vigil.

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