{"id":1718,"date":"2012-05-14T10:14:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T00:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=1718"},"modified":"2023-08-30T10:14:23","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T00:14:23","slug":"independent-scotland-could-be-a-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=1718","title":{"rendered":"Independent Scotland could be a Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Christine Grahame, a senior MP in the Scottish National Party, confirms that the party intends to hold a referendum on the monarchy.&nbsp; She says that&nbsp; there will be a vote about an independent&nbsp;Scotland having a &#8220;full blown monarchy, an edited version or a republic&#8221;.&nbsp; She favours a republic.&nbsp; This conflicts with Alex Salmond&#8217;s claim that the&nbsp;United Kingdom&nbsp;monarch would automatically remain Scotland&#8217;s head of state following separation from England.&nbsp; The report got good coverage in the Australian media. We are now behind Scotland, in both approach and timing!&nbsp; The same paper ran a headline referring to the Queen&nbsp;by her pet name&nbsp;&#8220;Lilibet&#8221;. [Queen could be ousted as Scotland&#8217;s head of state by Simon Johnson, Telegraph, London, 13 May 2012]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christine Grahame, a senior MP in the Scottish National Party, confirms that the party intends to hold a referendum on the monarchy.&nbsp; She says that&nbsp; there will be a vote about an independent&nbsp;Scotland having a &#8220;full blown monarchy, an edited&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-20","wpcat-20-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1719,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718\/revisions\/1719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}