How the Queen helped Welsh devolution
The Queen, with Lord Elis-Thomas, at the opening of the Welsh Assembly at the Senedd on 5 June, 2007
"It was about using all the ceremony that surrounds the Queen as part of the celebration of devolution. She was speaking as the head of state which was changing along with devolution."And I think it's been crucial to the success of the enterprise. Because it's difficult for the kind of people who support the monarchy to object when they find the monarchy is supporting devolution.
"They provide the background for the continuing and keen discussion of proposals for devolution to Scotland and Wales within the United Kingdom. That last line, Lord Elis-Thomas points out, was done to balance her acknowledgement of devolution and said in not so many words, 'come what may, I am still your Queen'.The Queen at the opening of the Welsh Assembly, now the Welsh Parliament, in 1999
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