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Former PM David Cameron once had a very tricky visit to the Queen at Balmoral


David Cameron has told how he had a nervous stay in Scotland with the Queen – after allowing the independence vote which threatened to break up the UK.

In his autobiography to be published this week he describes arriving at Balmoral for his annual visit.

He writes: “Shortly I’d be having an audience with the Queen: she, the woman who had reigned over the UK for 62 years; me, the man who had allowed a vote on its possible disintegration.

“Of course, she was completely charming — the whole household was.

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II greeting David Cameron at Buckingham Palace
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II greeting David Cameron at Buckingham Palace

 

“But as Prince Philip showed me the barbecue he had designed to roast grouse and sausages up at the hillside bothy, the referendum was clearly on everyone’s mind.”

He describes having breakfast next morning and seeing the headline about a poll which put the vote to split the UK up ahead for the first time.

He says: “I tried to reassure them about ‘rogue polls’, but I was struggling to convince myself, let alone them.”

Mr Cameron says he was “delighted” when the Queen later stepped into the debate by addressing Scots outside the local kirk, or church, and advising them to “think very carefully” before casting votes.

Mr Cameron also defends the Project Fear tactics ahead of the Scottish vote which backfired spectacularly when repeated in the 2016 EU referendum.

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And he reveals how a run-in over Brexit with another pupil made daughter Nancy use the f-word for the first time.

Mr Cameron – who cuddled a crying Nancy as the family left No10 following his resignation – says: “A bigger girl asked if she was for ‘out’ or for ‘in’.

“Nancy replied she was for in. The girl said, ‘Well, f*** you.’ Nancy replied, ‘Well, f*** you too’.”





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