{"id":392692,"date":"2025-09-02T19:43:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T19:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/392692\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T19:43:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T19:43:11","slug":"new-book-claims-that-queen-elizabeth-was-against-brexit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/392692\/","title":{"rendered":"New Book Claims That Queen Elizabeth Was Against Brexit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in 2016 as the UK was poised to vote on whether or not to leave the European Union, The Sun newspaper published an explosive front page. The headline \u201cQueen Backs Brexit\u201d sent shockwaves through the news agenda, sparking a rare official complaint from Buckingham Palace to the press regulator and a public statement that the Queen remained \u201cpolitically neutral.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, a new book by royal journalist Valentine Low has now claimed that in fact the Queen did privately hold views on the matter and they were the opposite to The Sun\u2019s headline. \u201cNow, years after that headline, evidence of what the Queen really thought about Brexit can be revealed,\u201d he wrote in The Times\u2019s serialization<\/a> of his book, Power and the Palace<\/a>. \u201cA senior minister who spoke to her in the early spring of 2016, three months before the referendum, recalls that she said, ‘We shouldn\u2019t leave the EU.\u2019 They discussed the referendum, and she said, \u2018It\u2019s better to stick with the devil you know\u2019\u2026it is now clear: if the Queen had had a vote, she would have voted Remain.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Queen of course did not have a vote because she was constitutionally bound to be politically neutral. While her ability to perform this role successfully in public was one of the things that characterized her reign, Low highlights in his book that she \u201chad opinions on all sorts of subjects; it was just that she chose not to share them. Or, more accurately, she did sometimes share them, but those who heard were usually too discreet to repeat them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Said to be based on nearly 100 interviews with \u201csenior politicians, top civil servants, royal aides and constitutional experts,\u201d Power and the Palace follows Low\u2019s first book, Courtiers, in which he lifted the lid on some of the fallout when Harry and Meghan stepped back as working royals.<\/p>\n

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Town & Country Contributing Editor Victoria Murphy has reported on the British Royal Family since 2010. She has interviewed Prince Harry and has travelled the world covering several royal tours. She is a frequent contributor to Good Morning America. Victoria authored Town & Country book The Queen: A Life in Pictures<\/a>, released in 2021.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Back in 2016 as the UK was poised to vote on whether or not to leave the European…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,748,1380,135940,1331,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,1381,135939,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-392692","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-content-type-news","11":"tag-contentid-52000f75-157c-4b76-abc0-e4d39f7989b7","12":"tag-displaytype-standard-article","13":"tag-eu","14":"tag-europe","15":"tag-european","16":"tag-european-union","17":"tag-great-britain","18":"tag-locale-us","19":"tag-shorttitle-book-claims-queen-elizabeth-was-against-brexit","20":"tag-uk","21":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115136417923828422","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}