Last king of UK?

Kenny Macaskill reminds us of another likely outcome if the SNP ever get their way and break up the UK (“I didn’t mind the Queen’s ‘purring’ but Charles III should be our last monarch”, 26 April).

Like others in the SNP hierarchy, Mr Macaskill kept to the party line during the 2014 independence referendum, suggesting the Queen would remain as Scotland’s monarch whilst knowing full well that the substantial republican element in the SNP would seeabolishingtheroyalfamily as a next step after independence.

As with equally casual misrepresentations of the economic consequences of separation, the SNP leadership knowingly said whatever they