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The Queen has made comments about Scottish independence and other political things.
HM made ONE public comment . She spoke to people outside a church in Scotland and said that she hoped people would think carefully about Independence.
Can you point me in the direction of of comments she has made about other political matters ?
Charles is a better example
Some on the Queen (none of them are bad*, but neither was H&M saying this vote was important):
▪︎ In 2016, she was caught criticising top Chinese officials as “very rude”. At a garden party in Buckingham Palace, the monarch was heard to say, “oh, bad luck”, after Metropolitan Police Commander Lucy D’Orsi mentioned that she had managed security for the UK visit of Chinese premier Xi Jinping. When D’Orsi spoke of the difficulties of dealing with Chinese officials, the Queen sympathised, saying: “They were very rude to the ambassador.” The comments were met with “extreme displeasure” in Beijing.
▪︎ 《The Queen had the right to say Johnson’s request to close parliament was “unconstitutional” because it was “done for the purpose of avoiding a vote of no confidence or other action by parliament against the government’s will”. In other words, he was seeking to silence MPs and deny the fundamental duty of the legislature to scrutinise the executive. Johnson exploited the convention that the Queen does what the PM tells her and got his way. But another convention is that she stays out of politics and she has broken that. If she can break one convention, she can break another.》 [Johnson's fault, he put her in a difficult position]
▪︎ She was upset there had been no way to arrest Abu Hamza and had spoke to the home secretary about the issue/Frank Gardner revealed that the Queen had told him she discussed the case of radical cleric Abu Hamza with a serving home secretary.
▪︎Christmas party at Downing Street: The Queen was not so keen forTurkey to enter the European Union. “I was present when the Queen made a comment that was both reactionary and unconstitutional,” Joan Smith. The Queen also said that "the EU is getting awfully big with 28 countries.’ Someone else said that, actually, it was 27, 'but we are hoping Turkey will come in soon’, to which the Queen said, 'Oh, we don’t want Turkey to come in for a long time.’
▪︎The Queen’s former press secretary revealed that she was angered byMargaret Thatcher’s refusal to impose strict sanctions on the apartheid regime in South Africa and that “The Queen considers the Prime Minister’s approach often to be uncaring, confrontational and socially divisive."
▪︎She hinted towards Brexit in a WI speech "For second time in the space of a month, The Queen expresses her concern about the state of the national debate. She said people should follow ‘tried and tested recipes’ such as ‘speaking well of each other and respecting different points of view’. She did similar at Christmas."
▪︎“The fact the Queen wanted Scotland to remain in Britain was something of an open secret,” according toThe Independent. This was all but confirmed when then-prime minister David Cameron was overheard telling New York mayor Michael Bloomberg that the monarch had “purred down the line” when he phoned to tell her the result of the vote.
▪︎"The Queen had a large influence in choosing Alec Douglas-Home to succeed Macmillan as prime minister. In her power to appoint bishops and archbishops, she has been known to make her feelings clearly known as to her favourites and not-so-favourites.
▪︎"I heard her talking about her disappointment in the current political class and its inability to govern correctly.'" (At an event, in reference to Cameron and Johnson)
*Well, minus the palace protection of Andrew from the FBI and in the British media