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Crowned republic prevails

Leadership above politics sacrosanct

19 October 2024

9:00 AM

19 October 2024

9:00 AM

King Charles III and Queen Camilla  are in Australia just as a Sunday Telegraph poll predictably reveals that support for a republic has crashed to 33 per cent.

Even before he landed, and graciously ignoring infantile insults about the cost of flights and staying in Government House, the King had to teach Australia’s republicans an elementary lesson  about the constitutional monarchy.

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