Queen Sophie’s Final Message

Hi everyone,

My time has come to hang up my cloak and hand over my crown to our new Queen Elect Holly. My reign as Queen has gone by in the blink of an eye. What an absolutely amazing year I’ve had, there are no words to explain how truly grateful I am to have been chosen as your 117th Bo’ness Fair Queen, I will cherish these memories for the rest of my life.

Thank you to the whole of the fair committee for being absolutely amazing, I have loved getting to know you all, and will have a special place for you all in my heart. My family and I have loved our time with you all.

I would like to thank my dad for yet again producing the most amazing special arch for me, he brought our visions to life. There is so much hard work that goes into them. Thank you so much to my family for everything, especially my mum, sister, nana, grandad and great gran Janet, I’m the luckiest girl to have you all by my side, treating me like a proper Queen.

Alice has given me the most beautiful dresses and I can’t wait to wear my new one tomorrow. Thank you so much Alice. Thank you to Mrs Heather Cullen for being by my side always. We had a bond before but is a truly special one now, and you mean so much more to me now.

I would like to thank my Chief lady Lucy for being with me through my whole experience, I don’t know what I’d have done without you, to helping me with speeches, to speaking on the mics for me. I’ve loved doing this together with you. Our whole retinue has been the best, and I’ve loved doing it with you all. We are all still the best of friends and I hope we are friends forever.

Thank you to the whole of Bo’ness, I love you all so much. Thank you for being so kind and generous with cards and gifts etc. Thank you to my very special Kinneil parent council, you guys are honestly the best, always going above and beyond for me and my family. Love you guys so much.

I hope the sun shines for the Grange tomorrow, and everyone has the most amazing fair day. Sending all my love and support to Queen Elect Holly and her retinue.

Bring on the best day of the year.

Hail To Our Queen Holly.

Hip Hip, all my love, Queen Sophie XxX