- A taxpayer-funded permanent memorial to Queen Elizabeth costing £1.4 million is to be created in Scotland .
- The public is being invited to submit ideas on the memorial 's design, location, scale and purpose through an online portal open until 13 December.
- Community engagement events led by Lord Lieutenants will also take place across Scotland this autumn.
- Cabinet Secretary Màiri McAllan highlighted the late Queen's strong connection to Scotland and called for a broad range of voices to help shape the project.
- The initiative goes ahead despite polling from May 2022 showing that fewer than half of people in Scotland supported retaining the monarchy .
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Scotland to build £1.4 million memorial of Queen Elizabeth despite slipping popularity of monarchy