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Kirstie McCrum

'Make Elizabeth the last' anti-monarchy billboards spring up across UK

Billboards saying 'Make Elizabeth the last' have gone up around the country just weeks before her Platinum Jubilee celebrations. The public posters are courtesy of anti-monarchy group Republic.

The group's response to the Jubilee features images of Prince Andrew, the Duke of Cambridge and the Duke of Cornwall, along with the hashtag '#AbolishTheMonarchy'. Republic says that recent polls showing support for the monarchy falling and a significant drop in the number of street parties from ten years ago,

Republic has currently crowdfunded more than £43,000 in support of its billboard campaign. So far, billboards have been erected in Reading, Manchester, Bournemouth, Birmingham, Dundee, Leeds, Glasgow, Newcastle and Bristol.

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