I had occasion the other day to dig up a piece I had written 50 years ago for Geoffrey Dutton’s symposium of 1966, Australia and the Monarchy. What prompted me was a speech on Magna Carta by John O’Sullivan, editor of Quadrant. He had been addressing a meeting at Sydney’s Parliament House of the Australian Monarchist League on the 800th anniversary of King John’s sealing the charter.
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