First Minister Nicola Sturgeon on the campaign trail in Glasgow last month. Photograph: Colin Mearns ONE of France s main national newspapers has described Nicola Sturgeon as the Queen of Scots in a pre-election profile of the SNP leader. Paris-based Le Monde spoke to friends of the First Minister, including former deputy SNP leader Angus Robertson and councillor Marie Burns for the 3200 word portrait, charting how Sturgeon became involved in political activism as a schoolgirl in Irvine, Ayrshire, to her rise as First Minister. The article ran under the headline From early activism to the dream of independence, Nicola Sturgeon, Queen of Scots and speculated that she may be the leader to take Scotland to independence.