Queen Elizabeth II

Robert Lacey, who has written two biographies on the Queen of England, Elizabeth II, has revealed that the monarch may secretly favour Britain’s exit from the European Union.

The revelation came yesterday in Lacey’s article , “Why The Queen Should Oppose Brexit,” which was published in The Daily Beast. The disclosure is bound to ruffle not a few feathers, coming only two days to actual voting in the referendum scheduled for tomorrow. As a constitutional monarch, the Queen is forbidden from voting but many analysts believe, her views, however secretly expressed, carry a lot of influence.

Lacey claims in the article that in recent times the Queen has been asking her dinner companions, “Give me three good reasons why Britain should be part of Europe?”

Robert Lacey also says that in March, someone who it has been widely suggested was Michael Gove, “her indiscreet Lord Chancellor,” revealed that the Queen had spoken up strongly against the EU in a private 2011 discussion with the then Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg.

“And while Buckingham Palace has rightly deplored the impropriety of disclosing Her Majesty’s private remarks,” Lacey writes, “the Palace has been careful not to define her views, nor to deny that her sympathies might, on occasions, like those of many of her subjects, have veered towards Brexit.”