Submitted by Steve Irons on Sun, 20/04/2014 - 9:16pm
Dear Prince William;
You have come to Australia as the grandson of the current Queen of Australia, and as potentially the next King of Australia, and maybe even the father of the next King of Australia after you (although I must say the likelihood of that one is very slim, as a majority in the current democracy hope for a change to a republic before he comes of ruling age (what’s that, say 17 years from now?) and lots of other factors have to coincide, like the death or abdication of your grandmamma, your father and yourself, for instance, but stranger things have happened in your family, so we cannot rule it out. That is one of the reasons for your visit, I am sure, to introduce a future Queen of Australia, a future Queen Mother of Australia and a future King George of Australia, to a Land Down Under that they might someday call theirs!). Here is a picture of you alighting from an official Australian airforce jet with all the due pomp and circumstance that is afforded one of your future stature:
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/2014/04/16/00/04/by-george-a-right-r...
You have brought Australian families out to see you in your current visit Down Under, to wave the British flag and ooh and aah. You and your lovely wife Kate and your baby boy George are an inspiration to these diminished and diminishing folk, or at least an oddity to be the subject of wonder and reverence, to those who have little else in their lives to look forward to. They came on the TV yesterday to tell us that they had been waiting in the street six hours when they caught a momentary glimpse as you sped by, in your modern motorcade, and what an inspiration that provided.
I personally have similar memory of your grandmother’s first official visit as reigning monarch (although I was a bit young to have much real experience of the event so it was probably oohed and aahed about for a number of years afterwards in the poorer sectors of the aussie rural working class at the time).
But I do remember your father in the Geelong Grammar School, written extensively about in the Border Morning Mail and the Melbourne Truth and seen as the next King of Australia, especially his Timbertop escapades, which we were asked to ooh and aah about, while being reminded to know our place in the poorer public schools across Australia (not a public school in the way you understand it, but I am sure he has explained that to you as future heir to the throne of Australia).
Anyway, enough of the niceties. Let’s just say, welcome to Australia, and enjoy your stay.
My request: a personally delivered message to the current monarch and the current British government from the people of Australia
Now, to the purpose of my personal communication to you.
I wonder if, in your visit to the Royal Easter Show, you might take a few minutes to consider a personal request to involve yourself in a problem that Australia is facing at present that just won’t seem to go away, and to take an active role in a possible solution, that I will outline, that might be promoted by the current monarch and the current British government, in their official responsibility for the wealth and well-being of their current British Colony Down Under.
I know I could ask the involvement of the current Governor General of Australia (here’s a picture of you and yours with him in his Admiralty House as he performs is official duties as current Head of State),
http://www.popsugar.com.au/celebrity/Prince-William-Kate-Middleton-Georg...
but he has only been in his position a few minutes, his background is in the services, who have been part of the problem not the solution, and he is a bit too beholden to Prime Minister Tony Abbott at present for his appointment, to be of much use in providing a possible solution to a protracted and seemingly insoluble crisis dominating the Australian political landscape, at present.
You on the other hand do not have the same need to bow and scrape to current political power games and can stand above the stupidities being promoted, by power players on both sides of politics at present, as facts.
In fact, the current Prime Minister has gone out of his way to bow to you, to remind all who will listen what a loyal subject of your grandmother he is, to reintroduce English heraldry from the English middle ages into a modern well-regarded Australian honours system, to promote a friendship between his daughters and your little brother, etc. etc. Here is a picture of him going out of his way to smile and ooh and aah, and show by his bow and scrape his understanding of the possible glory of another King George.
http://www.eonline.com/news/532426/prince-william-thinks-kate-middleton-...
There are few moments when you might actually be able to make a difference by being in your position, but this might well be one of them.
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