Not much it seems despite their regular appearances in the women’s magazines, the tabloids and, increasingly, on our screens.The controversy over the accuracy of The Crown continues but it also flushes out the circles of reverential royal experts and biographers who surround the family – often complicit in keeping secrets and non-disclosure. The stakes and prestige on offer are high. The British royals are the Australian Royal Family too and will furnish our Head of State in perpetuity unless we take action to change that fact. Read an informative article by Giselle Bastin, Associate Professor of English at Flinders University on the link below. [“The hidden agenda of royals experts circling The Crown Season 4” by Giselle Bastin, The Conversation online 10 December 2020]
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
