The late Queen asked for ‘gossip’ about the Alex Salmond sex claims, Nicola Sturgeon has claimed.
The Monarch immediately asked for details when the women met at Balmoral Castle a few weeks after misconduct claims against Mr Salmond first emerged in 2018.
Claiming the Queen ‘loved a bit of gossip’, Ms Sturgeon wrote in her autobiography Frankly: ‘She asked me about it almost as soon as I sat down. She wanted to know more of what was going on.’
Describing herself as a republican ‘at heart and by instinct’, Ms Sturgeon lavishes praise on the late Queen as ‘utterly fascinating’ and ‘an incredible woman’.
She says she was ‘struck by the aura’ she ‘exuded as she entered the room’, and said she had ‘a mystique’ around her that no other member of the Royal Family has.
