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The comments on the Scottish referendum puzzled me, as abolishing the monarchy is no part of S.N.P. plans. The S.N.P. seek to revert to being a separate nation but sharing the same monarch as England, as was the case for the century or so before the union of the parliaments but after the union of the crowns. This reflects the fact tha Scotland is more strongly monarchist than England and Wales, for example Scots law protects royal insignia against use by commoners more strongly than does English law. It is surely no coincodence that God Save the King/Queen denounced "rebellious Scots" who sought to replace a Protestant king with a Catholic one but dared not even mention English rebels who sought to abolish the monarchy altogether - and indeed managed to for a few decades under Oliver Cromwell. Whichever way the referendum goes, the shared monarchy is unlikely to end until, as I hope will happen, English republicans get into the ascendant again.