With a lead-in lush picture of Diana and Charles in Newcastle during the 1983 royal tour, where your gaze is immediately drawn to Diana radiant in pale pink, hardly noticing our next King, we find out seven pages later that the Australian Women’s Weekly is hosting a book-signing and morning tea at $40 a head for a “lavish” new book, “The Royals in Australia”. The AWW states that the author, Juliet Rieden Royal Correspondent and Deputy Editor of the magazine, was granted access to the Royal Archives at Windsor Castle to research the book, a privilege not granted to other well-credentialed writers on the royals including BBC journalist, Andrew Marr. [“Diana in Love. Before the fairytale ended” by Juliet Rieden, AWW, November 2015 edition pages 91-98]
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
