Comparing her with the unhappy Diana, a British journalist says this about the Duchess of Cambridge: “so normal and grounded that she makes the rest of us feel like dysfunctional freaks”. Presume that’s women she’s referring to, considered in the context of a particularly unhelpful role being performed by a future Queen of Australia twice removed and one that we in Oz can well do without. [“Will her fans ever let go of their grip on Princess Diana?” by Cristina Odone, The Daily Telegraph, London, 18 August 2013]
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
