Overview

• Valentine Low reports that Prince William pressed the Queen’s private secretary, Sir Christopher Geidt, to seek a public intervention before the referendum.
• Low writes that Geidt and cabinet secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood discussed constitutional propriety and crafted the wording used outside Crathie Kirk.
• Four days before the vote, Queen Elizabeth II told well-wishers she hoped Scots would think very carefully about the future.
• David Cameron has previously acknowledged lobbying the monarch during a period when some polling briefly put the Yes campaign ahead.
• A spokesman for the Prince of Wales declined to comment, and SNP figure Tommy Sheppard urged an investigation, noting that the 2014 vote ultimately returned 55% for No.