I think, Sass, that you are under the misapprehension that the attitude toward the monarch is the same throughout the so-called UK - you are wrong, for all sorts of historical reasons. For starters, when the king was king of Scots alone, even then he was little more than first among equals with his court. The line of child monarchs ensured a semi-independent attitude persisted in Scotland, rather than the centralised monarchical power in England. At the Reformation, the monarch was never head or governor of the church in Scotland - When Charles I tried to be so, the war of the three kingdoms - sometimes called the English civil war - was the result. With monarchs reigning from London and abandoning Scotland, the populous became even less inclined to defer to an authority which was increasingly remote - and the cynical attitude remains. It might be worth noting that when the monarch opens Westminster's parliament, she sits on a throne on a dais above her' subjects'. In Scotland, when the monarch attends the 'riding of parliament', she sits on a chair beside the presiding officer as the MSPs gaze down on her.
