George William Foote (1850–1915), secularist and journal editor; secretary of the London Republican Club (1870) and National Republican League (1871)[209][210]
^The following list includes
notable figures and groups who have advocated for this position. It excludes those who have since disclaimed their support for republicanism, or retracted such statements.
^
abMassie, Alex; Boothman, John (19 March 2023). "Are Scots ready to cut ties with monarchy?". The Times.
ISSN0140-0460. Retrieved 30 March 2023. Yousaf is not alone in embracing republicanism. Stephen Flynn, the SNP's leader at Westminster, and Mhairi Black, his deputy, are also in favour of a republic.
^Massie, Alex; Boothman, John (19 March 2023). "Are Scots ready to cut ties with monarchy?". The Times.
ISSN0140-0460. Retrieved 30 March 2023. Yousaf is not alone in embracing republicanism. Stephen Flynn, the SNP's leader at Westminster, and Mhairi Black, his deputy, are also in favour of a republic.
^Hatton, Derek (28 June 2018).
"Degsy's verdict on the stories making the news". Liverpool Echo. Retrieved 12 September 2022. I also have great difficulty in singing or even identifying with '
God Save The Queen' which I reckon is a tune to slash your wrists to. On top of that I'm a republican and I'm an atheist, so fair to say I'm not the anthem's biggest fan.
^"MPs give their reasons". Anthem 4 England. 2 November 2006. Retrieved 12 June 2019. I agree with your reasons for our need for an English anthem (though, as a republican, I dislike God save the Queen).
^Collins, Philip (27 March 2015).
"Charles wants power without responsibility". The Times. Retrieved 12 September 2022. In a transparent time, secrecy will be the enemy of monarchy. Charles is already jeopardising the compact that his mother has made with the nation. As a lukewarm republican, I intend to send him a new pen and invite him to start writing to George Osborne, but monarchists ought to be anxious.
^White, Michael; Pilkington, Edward (5 March 1996). "Speaker opens way for debate on monarchy: Ruling leaves major and blair to juggle with royal hot potato". The Guardian.
ProQuest187867985.
^GUEST COLUMNIST - TANYA GOLD, 'Prince's quest for a happier kingdom troubles me - Features', i: The Paper For Today (online), 13 Apr 2019 17 ‹
https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=AWGLNB&docref=news/172C682DE8ABCDE0› "Even I feel a pang of guilt when I think of him walking behind his mother's coffin aged 12 to protect his father from a lynching, and I am a republican."
^Jeremy Vine. 8 November 2021. Channel 5. I think that's a separate issue, which is the way in which the Royal Family I think does something incredibly traumatic to human beings which is puts their interpersonal lives, their loves, their insecurities front and centre of national life and I think that that's one of the reasons why I am a staunch Republican.
^Dalgarno, Paul (25 April 2009). "Prize Fighter – He might be the British hope for the Booker International, but don't go thinking James Kelman has joined the establishment. This most uncompromising of authors refuses to sell out ... at least until someone offers him a million pounds – Interview". The Herald. p. 20.
ProQuest333113607.
^"Getting Her Maj involved might prove tricky, particularly as I am a declared republican"Mark Kermode, It's Only a Movie: Reel Life Adventures of a Film Obsessive. Arrow Books, 2010
ISBN978-0-09-954348-0, (p. 4).
^Whitcroft, Graeme (13 October 2001). "Vengeance will be mine; Sweet Revenge, ITV, Monday - Tuesday, 7.00pm Desperate to get even with someone? Paul McGann's latest character is your man". Daily Record. pp. 14–15.
ProQuest327797826.
^"Questions for Tracey Ullman". The New York Times. 11 January 1998. Q: Are you a republican? A: I am, I am. An M.P. once suggested I be put in the Tower of London for saying derogatory things about the royals. There's no First Amendment in my country. I love your Bill of Rights!
^Aftab, Kaleem (28 April 2016).
"Stephen Frears on Florence Foster Jenkins, Hugh Grant and Brexit". The Independent. Retrieved 12 September 2022. The only time Frears stumbles is when I ask if he's refused honours: "Er, that's not relevant. I'm a Republican, but I like the Queen. Like everyone else, I'm sentimental about the Queen."
^Edemariam, Aida (19 July 2013).
"'There is now a republican movement': anti-royal campaigners get organised". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 June 2020. One of the things I thought staggering," says Michael Mansfield, QC, another republican, who acted for Mohamed al-Fayed in the inquest into the deaths of Dodi al-Fayed and Diana, Princess of Wales, "was the increase of the Queen's sovereign grant. She's getting £5m more than she got last year. That was the day after Osborne outlined cuts of £11.5bn. Now, I know she's got expenses – I dare say the refurbishment of Kensington Palace is necessary but why does the public have to foot the £600,000 bill, rather than the Queen?
^Thomas M. Costa, "Dilke, Charles Wentworth" in Historical Dictionary of the British Empire edited by James S. Olson and Robert Shadle. Greenwood Press, 1996
ISBN0-313-27917-9
^Gossedge, Rob; Morra, Irene, eds. (2016). The new Elizabethan age : culture, society and national identity after World War II. I.B.Tauris.
ISBN978-0857728678.
^McLaughlin, Aideen (27 March 2005). New call for abolition of monarchy timed to influence general election Alasdair Gray pamphlet to rally republican vote. Sunday Herald.
^Hall, Simon (31 May 2022).
"Barbara Hall obituary". the Guardian. Retrieved 10 January 2023. Barbara was an avid Guardian reader and staunch republican.
^Andy Croft, "Ethel Mannin: The Red Rose of Love and the Red Flower of Liberty" in Angela Ingram and
Daphne Patai, (ed.),Rediscovering Forgotten Radicals : British Women Writers, 1889-1939.Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1993.
ISBN0807820873 (p. 205-225).
^Moore, Dylan (7 June 2022).
"Coronation Everest: A Welsh republican at the summit of monarchy and imperial adventure". The National (Wales). Archived from
the original on 31 December 2022. Retrieved 12 September 2022. Writing to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the expedition in 2003, Morris wryly observes that her role in reporting the successful ascent was "very improbabl[e], for I am a lifelong republican", nevertheless describing the coincidence of the queen's coronation and the breaking news of Everest's conquest as 'a happy conjunction'.
^"...elected Master of the Art-Worker's Guild in 1892, Morris refused to be considered as a candidate for the Laureateship the following year, declaring that a royal appointment was incompatible with his republican principles" Richard Tames, William Morris: An Illustrated Life of William Morris, 1834-1896. Osprey Publishing, 2003
ISBN0-7478-0435-4, (p. 51).
^Orr, Deborah (14 June 2002). "The snobbishness of modernising monarchists - The modernisers sanctify the repulsive idea that everyone has a value from which a profit can be wrung". Independent. p. 17.
^Andrzej Olechnowicz, The Monarchy and the British Nation, 1780 to the Present. Cambridge University Press, 2007.
ISBN0521844614, (p. 190).
^Todd, Janet (2007).
Death and the maidens : Fanny Wollestonecraft and the Shelley circle. London:
Profile Books.
ISBN978-1-4482-1252-1.
OCLC1100977570. Had a matchmaker been called in to find a wife and soulmate for the young radical thinker and poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, passionate republican heir of a baronetcy, she would surely have lighted on Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, an attractive, clever girl of lower but respectable social class and the daughter of two famous republican parents.
^Moseley, Ray (4 December 1994). "Anti-monarchists take aim at British royals." Chicago Tribune.
^"...the fall of the once-mighty Romanovs only fuelled republican sympathies elsewhere...in a letter to The Times, the celebrated author H. G. Wells asserted that “the time has come to rid ourselves of the ancient trappings of throne and sceptre". Justin C Vovk, Imperial Requiem: Four Royal Women and the Fall of the Age of Empires iUniverse, 2012.
ISBN1475917503 (p. 338)
George William Foote (1850–1915), secularist and journal editor; secretary of the London Republican Club (1870) and National Republican League (1871)[209][210]
^The following list includes
notable figures and groups who have advocated for this position. It excludes those who have since disclaimed their support for republicanism, or retracted such statements.
^
abMassie, Alex; Boothman, John (19 March 2023). "Are Scots ready to cut ties with monarchy?". The Times.
ISSN0140-0460. Retrieved 30 March 2023. Yousaf is not alone in embracing republicanism. Stephen Flynn, the SNP's leader at Westminster, and Mhairi Black, his deputy, are also in favour of a republic.
^Massie, Alex; Boothman, John (19 March 2023). "Are Scots ready to cut ties with monarchy?". The Times.
ISSN0140-0460. Retrieved 30 March 2023. Yousaf is not alone in embracing republicanism. Stephen Flynn, the SNP's leader at Westminster, and Mhairi Black, his deputy, are also in favour of a republic.
^Hatton, Derek (28 June 2018).
"Degsy's verdict on the stories making the news". Liverpool Echo. Retrieved 12 September 2022. I also have great difficulty in singing or even identifying with '
God Save The Queen' which I reckon is a tune to slash your wrists to. On top of that I'm a republican and I'm an atheist, so fair to say I'm not the anthem's biggest fan.
^"MPs give their reasons". Anthem 4 England. 2 November 2006. Retrieved 12 June 2019. I agree with your reasons for our need for an English anthem (though, as a republican, I dislike God save the Queen).
^Collins, Philip (27 March 2015).
"Charles wants power without responsibility". The Times. Retrieved 12 September 2022. In a transparent time, secrecy will be the enemy of monarchy. Charles is already jeopardising the compact that his mother has made with the nation. As a lukewarm republican, I intend to send him a new pen and invite him to start writing to George Osborne, but monarchists ought to be anxious.
^White, Michael; Pilkington, Edward (5 March 1996). "Speaker opens way for debate on monarchy: Ruling leaves major and blair to juggle with royal hot potato". The Guardian.
ProQuest187867985.
^GUEST COLUMNIST - TANYA GOLD, 'Prince's quest for a happier kingdom troubles me - Features', i: The Paper For Today (online), 13 Apr 2019 17 ‹
https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=AWGLNB&docref=news/172C682DE8ABCDE0› "Even I feel a pang of guilt when I think of him walking behind his mother's coffin aged 12 to protect his father from a lynching, and I am a republican."
^Jeremy Vine. 8 November 2021. Channel 5. I think that's a separate issue, which is the way in which the Royal Family I think does something incredibly traumatic to human beings which is puts their interpersonal lives, their loves, their insecurities front and centre of national life and I think that that's one of the reasons why I am a staunch Republican.
^Dalgarno, Paul (25 April 2009). "Prize Fighter – He might be the British hope for the Booker International, but don't go thinking James Kelman has joined the establishment. This most uncompromising of authors refuses to sell out ... at least until someone offers him a million pounds – Interview". The Herald. p. 20.
ProQuest333113607.
^"Getting Her Maj involved might prove tricky, particularly as I am a declared republican"Mark Kermode, It's Only a Movie: Reel Life Adventures of a Film Obsessive. Arrow Books, 2010
ISBN978-0-09-954348-0, (p. 4).
^Whitcroft, Graeme (13 October 2001). "Vengeance will be mine; Sweet Revenge, ITV, Monday - Tuesday, 7.00pm Desperate to get even with someone? Paul McGann's latest character is your man". Daily Record. pp. 14–15.
ProQuest327797826.
^"Questions for Tracey Ullman". The New York Times. 11 January 1998. Q: Are you a republican? A: I am, I am. An M.P. once suggested I be put in the Tower of London for saying derogatory things about the royals. There's no First Amendment in my country. I love your Bill of Rights!
^Aftab, Kaleem (28 April 2016).
"Stephen Frears on Florence Foster Jenkins, Hugh Grant and Brexit". The Independent. Retrieved 12 September 2022. The only time Frears stumbles is when I ask if he's refused honours: "Er, that's not relevant. I'm a Republican, but I like the Queen. Like everyone else, I'm sentimental about the Queen."
^Edemariam, Aida (19 July 2013).
"'There is now a republican movement': anti-royal campaigners get organised". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 June 2020. One of the things I thought staggering," says Michael Mansfield, QC, another republican, who acted for Mohamed al-Fayed in the inquest into the deaths of Dodi al-Fayed and Diana, Princess of Wales, "was the increase of the Queen's sovereign grant. She's getting £5m more than she got last year. That was the day after Osborne outlined cuts of £11.5bn. Now, I know she's got expenses – I dare say the refurbishment of Kensington Palace is necessary but why does the public have to foot the £600,000 bill, rather than the Queen?
^Thomas M. Costa, "Dilke, Charles Wentworth" in Historical Dictionary of the British Empire edited by James S. Olson and Robert Shadle. Greenwood Press, 1996
ISBN0-313-27917-9
^Gossedge, Rob; Morra, Irene, eds. (2016). The new Elizabethan age : culture, society and national identity after World War II. I.B.Tauris.
ISBN978-0857728678.
^McLaughlin, Aideen (27 March 2005). New call for abolition of monarchy timed to influence general election Alasdair Gray pamphlet to rally republican vote. Sunday Herald.
^Hall, Simon (31 May 2022).
"Barbara Hall obituary". the Guardian. Retrieved 10 January 2023. Barbara was an avid Guardian reader and staunch republican.
^Andy Croft, "Ethel Mannin: The Red Rose of Love and the Red Flower of Liberty" in Angela Ingram and
Daphne Patai, (ed.),Rediscovering Forgotten Radicals : British Women Writers, 1889-1939.Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1993.
ISBN0807820873 (p. 205-225).
^Moore, Dylan (7 June 2022).
"Coronation Everest: A Welsh republican at the summit of monarchy and imperial adventure". The National (Wales). Archived from
the original on 31 December 2022. Retrieved 12 September 2022. Writing to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the expedition in 2003, Morris wryly observes that her role in reporting the successful ascent was "very improbabl[e], for I am a lifelong republican", nevertheless describing the coincidence of the queen's coronation and the breaking news of Everest's conquest as 'a happy conjunction'.
^"...elected Master of the Art-Worker's Guild in 1892, Morris refused to be considered as a candidate for the Laureateship the following year, declaring that a royal appointment was incompatible with his republican principles" Richard Tames, William Morris: An Illustrated Life of William Morris, 1834-1896. Osprey Publishing, 2003
ISBN0-7478-0435-4, (p. 51).
^Orr, Deborah (14 June 2002). "The snobbishness of modernising monarchists - The modernisers sanctify the repulsive idea that everyone has a value from which a profit can be wrung". Independent. p. 17.
^Andrzej Olechnowicz, The Monarchy and the British Nation, 1780 to the Present. Cambridge University Press, 2007.
ISBN0521844614, (p. 190).
^Todd, Janet (2007).
Death and the maidens : Fanny Wollestonecraft and the Shelley circle. London:
Profile Books.
ISBN978-1-4482-1252-1.
OCLC1100977570. Had a matchmaker been called in to find a wife and soulmate for the young radical thinker and poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, passionate republican heir of a baronetcy, she would surely have lighted on Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, an attractive, clever girl of lower but respectable social class and the daughter of two famous republican parents.
^Moseley, Ray (4 December 1994). "Anti-monarchists take aim at British royals." Chicago Tribune.
^"...the fall of the once-mighty Romanovs only fuelled republican sympathies elsewhere...in a letter to The Times, the celebrated author H. G. Wells asserted that “the time has come to rid ourselves of the ancient trappings of throne and sceptre". Justin C Vovk, Imperial Requiem: Four Royal Women and the Fall of the Age of Empires iUniverse, 2012.
ISBN1475917503 (p. 338)