In the White Drawing Room at Windsor Castle, an award she approved on the Prime Minister’s sole recommendation that was widely ridiculed – please see link below for photo and story. In the foreground is Australian High Commissioner and devoted monarchist, Alexander Downer, no doubt keen on his own knighthood in the footsteps of his father, an earlier High Commissioner to the Court of St James. [Queen presents Prince Philip Australian knighthood, AAP, The Guardian online 23 April 2015]
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
