Royal 'displeasure' after David Cameron reveals he asked the Queen to speak out against Scottish independence

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• David Cameron rebuked by Buckingham Palace after revealing details of private communications with the Queen.
• The former UK prime minister suggested he had successfully persuaded the monarch to intervene in the 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum.
• Communications between politicians and the Queen are meant to remain private by convention.
• A royal source told the BBC that Cameron's claims "serves no-one's interests."
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David Cameron has suffered a rare public rebuke by Buckingham Palace after he revealed the details of private communication between his office and the Queen.

Cameron told the BBC on Wednesday that he had asked for the Queen to intervene in the 2014 Scottish independence.

Following his intervention, the Queen told a member of the public that she "hoped people would think very carefully about the future," a comment widely interpret as a warning about the risks of breaking up the UK.

"I remember conversations I had with my private secretary and he had with the Queen's private secretary and I had with the Queen's private secretary, not asking for anything that would be in any way improper or unconstitutional but just a raising of the eyebrow even you know, a quarter of an inch, we thought would make a difference," Cameron said.

The Queen has long sought to remain impartial in UK politics and conversations between the monarch and the prime minister remain secret by convention.

However, following Cameron's comments a royal source told the BBC that there was "an amount of displeasure" from the monarch about Cameron's comments.

They said that "it serves no one's interests" for conversations between the prime minister and the monarch to be made public

"It makes it very hard for the relationship to thrive," they added.

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