Overview

• An unnamed senior minister recalls the Queen saying three months before the referendum, “We shouldn’t leave the EU,” adding, “It’s better to stick with the devil you know.”
• The book reports she viewed the EU as part of the post‑war settlement yet found Brussels bureaucracy frustrating, at times saying, “This is ridiculous.”
• David Cameron is quoted saying she never voiced political views but that one could sense she valued European co‑operation even as EU institutions could be infuriating.
• Buckingham Palace offered no comment, consistent with the convention of royal political neutrality and following past sensitivity over The Sun’s 2016 “Queen Backs Brexit” front page, which IPSO later deemed significantly misleading.
• Additional claims include palace-led edits to avoid campaign language such as “take back control” in a Queen’s Speech and an account that she considered meeting Boris Johnson despite his Covid symptoms.