“In that order please”: Scottish, Melbourne-based freelance journalist and editor writing on politics, culture and society, Andrea Maltman, spells out the Duchess of Cambridge’s role clearly, one that Kate has absorbed and accepted as exemplified by these core values, in three years official attachment to the Windsor family. Andrea begs to hear Kate’s voice and see the signs of her intelligence given she has a university degree. She also comments that the British royal house has been slow to modernise the role of its women compared with the European princesses who display independent, modern behaviour not at all under the thumb. She says Kate pales in comparison with them all. Read her article here [“Windswept in Wellington” by Andrea Maltman, The Australian Spectator, 12 April 2014]
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
