Independence vote: Queen urges Scots to ‘think carefully’

EDINBURGH: Queen Elizabeth II has broken her silence over the Scottish independence vote, telling a member of the public on Sunday that she hoped Scots would think very carefully about the future when voting in a referendum that could break up the United Kingdom. The monarch responded to a remark from a well-wisher that they would not mention the referendum. “I hope people will think very carefully about the future,” The Times newspaper reported Elizabeth as saying.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 15^th, 2014.