With news that revenue from the royal estates could be retained in Scotland with legislation going through to give the Scottish parliament the ability to manage royal assets in Scotland, Anne Perkins comments that the substructure of the monarchy and its dazzling estate have been fleetingly revealed. Among the array of assets listed are Australia and Canada! Also today, Republic, the UK republic group, called on the royal family to leave Buckingham Palace and for it to be turned into a museum after it was announced that a long-overdue upgrade would cost GBP 150m – thankfully, we have not been asked to contribute thus far. [“Scotland has the right approach to Queen’s sausage factory” by Anne Perkins, The Guardian online 24 June 2015]
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
