"As we were getting ready to leave [for Balmoral] we were told we had been disinvited because one of the ladies-in-waiting had discovered that my partner and I weren't married and had told the Queen.
The anti-independence camp believed it was a helpful intervention when the Queen's only public remarks on the issue were overheard outside Crathie Kirk near her Balmoral estate in Aberdeenshire after the Sunday morning service.
Speaking after Sunday service outside Crathie Kirk near her Balmoral estate in Aberdeenshire, the Queen told a wellwisher: "Well, I hope people will think very carefully about the future".
Her remarks, delivered outside Crathie Kirk near her Balmoral estate in Aberdeenshire after the Sunday morning service, were interpreted by the no camp as a helpful intervention.
Speaking after the Sunday morning service at Crathie Kirk near her Balmoral estate in Scotland, the Queen told a well-wisher: "Well, I hope people will think very carefully about the future".
Tony and Cherie Blair entered into the spirit during their Balmoral stay in 1999 by conceiving their youngest son, Leo.
The remarks by the Queen came after the palace insisted last week that the monarch, who spends every summer at her Balmoral estate and whose mother was Scottish, was remaining above the fray in the referendum.
Other than Paris Hilton's pad or the queen's Balmoral Castle, where can you be waited on hand-and-foot in marble-floored rooms adorned with Picassos?
Diana's death in a car crash in 1997 provoked a rare misjudgment by the queen, who initially remained ensconced at her remote Balmoral estate in the Scottish highlands; Prime Minister Tony Blair had to "advise" (in effect, instruct) her to return to London to lead the country's grieving.
In the run-up to the September vote on Scotland's future, the Queen was reported to have told a well-wisher outside Crathie Kirk, near her Balmoral estate, that Scots should "think very carefully about the future" when casting their ballot.
Shot in 1933 on the Balmoral estate, apparently with the Queen's father behind the camera, the grainy footage shows Elizabeth playing on a lawn with her sister Margaret before her mother makes a Nazi salute.
