- The Queen said to have opposed the legalisation of gay marriage in 2014
- She told a friend marriage should stay between a man and a woman
- But she admitted she was powerless to intervene and 'could only advise'
- The monarch celebrates her 90th birthday next month on April 21
- Richard Kay and Geoffrey Levy, Daily Mail. 7 March 2016

Could she not have withheld the Royal Assent? That would have provoked a constitutional crisis and probably ended the Monarchy but it might have been the right thing to do.
Phil Almond