Royal rage over Brexit news story
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BUCKINGHAM Palace hit out yesterday at a report claiming that Queen Elizabeth II is in favour of Britain leaving the European Union.
The Sun, Britain’s most-read newspaper, put the headline “Queen backs Brexit” on its front page with a photograph of the monarch, with the sub-heading “EU going in wrong direction, she says.”
But Buckingham Palace insisted Queen Elizabeth, who became the sovereign in 1952, did not take sides in politics, in line with her constitutional duty.
Britain is due to vote on June 23 on whether to remain a member of the 28-member European Union.
“The Queen remains politically neutral as she has for 63 years,” a palace spokesman said.
“We will not comment on spurious, anonymously sourced claims. The referendum is a matter for the British people to decide.”
The Sun tabloid cited an anonymous “senior source” who said that Queen Elizabeth, 89, had “let rip” at the pro-EU politician Nick Clegg during a lunch in 2011 when he was deputy prime minister.
“People who heard their conversation were left in no doubt at all about the queen’s views on European integration,” the source said. “It was really something, and it went on for quite a while.
But Clegg, who led the pro-EU Liberal Democrats and was deputy prime minister from 2010 to 2015, denied the report. “This is nonsense,” he wrote on Twitter.
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