Christine Grahame rails against Royal Family

A PROMINENT Nationalist MSP has spoken out against SNP policy on the monarchy in an outspoken attack on the Royal Family.

Christine Grahame, convener of Holyrood’s justice committee, has described the Duchess of Cambridge as “stick thin” and called the public display of grief for the late Princess of Wales “nonsense”.

In an article for the Scottish Left Review, Ms Grahame expressed republican beliefs that clash with Alex Salmond’s assertion that the Queen will remain head of state in an independent Scotland.

Ms Grahame said she had a “critical hostility to privilege and all the honours and flummery that tries to give it an alibi”.

She added: “Of course the royal performance/presentation continues.

“Give them credit, they are good at the re-inventing malarkey. After the Diana nonsense, when complete strangers lemming-like threw themselves into publicity-driven grief, through Charles and Camilla’s redemption, we are now spoon-fed the William & Kate Show, the latter ironically committed like her deceased predecessor to remaining stick thin for photogenic reasons.

“No doubt others are mumbling that it’s about time she was pregnant.”

Mrs Grahame added that none of this critcism was “personal”. She also expressed irritation that the John Lewis store sold items branded with the Union flag.

“As a Scot that also gets my goat,” she said.

In the same article, her SNP colleague Angus MacNeil MP argued a “positive” case for the monarchy.