The tell-all Harry and Meghan interview with Oprah Winfrey has some republican campaigners, principally those at ARM, all in a spin. They think it will kickstart the demand for a Republic among the public at large. WfaAR doesn’t agree. Our opinion is that after initial outrage, this will pass quickly from the news cycle and disappear into the ether. And this is exactly what happened. Instead, sympathy for the Queen, demonised in the press along with the rest of the royal family after accusations of racism and spite, increased significantly within a month (see April New Items).
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
