King Charles-the-whatever is coming to Australia on 18 October until some other date you can no doubt find in your calendar, if you could be bothered, which I would strongly advise is not entirely necessary at all. Michelle Pini , the editor of this profoundly unprofitable enterprise is abroad – in Greece, I understand from most recent reports, her birth land – so it falls upon my broad Goliathan shoulders to write the editorial this week. I was the editor of this money pit for around a decade or so, the details are hazy but suffice to say, I can probably manage to write a few words if I am held up in a hostage situation, as I am at the moment.
So, Prince Charles. Oh, wait, King Chuck. Whatever.
He’s coming back to Australia this month, from 18-26 October. It may surprise the hell out of you to know that, once upon a time, I more or less ran the Australian Republic Movement . I have written about this on my Twitter feed over the last few days with my customary drollery, uncanny insight and acute satire.
(Very cute indeed, I’d suggest.) The British Royal Family: A cult of obsession Support for an Australian Republic referendum is persistently stifled by the mainstream media's obsession with treating the Royal family as celebrities. Anyhoop! I know everything there is to know about Australian republicanism.
I was there, I got the tee-shirt and even wrote a book about it, as previously alluded to in my Twitter/X feed recently. Now, it seems, Charles and Camilla are about.