Ahead of the Oprah Winfrey interview, Catherine Bennett in The Guardian gets in with her take on the Sussexes, their royal relatives, strange habits in the palaces and hope for republicans. This is a good balance but not enough to kick off a determined Republic campaign in Australia based on dislike of certain members of a very distant and largely unknown and unseen British Royal Family which provides our Head of State in perpetuity. It’s on the link. [“In the battle of Meghan versus The Firm, who do we cheer on? How about neither” by Catherine Bennett, The Guardian online, 7 March 2021]
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
