Australian leader reminded of Prince Charles criticism
Britain’s Prince Charles walks along a poppy-filled wall at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra, Australia on Nov 11. Charles and Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, are on a 6-day visit to Australia.
(Inset): Prince Charles (left), poses with Australia’s Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull for a photo at Government House in Canberra on Wednesday. (AP) Palestinian resistance veteran and two-time plane hijacker Leila Khaled speaks at a women’s group forum in Manila on Nov 11. The International Women’s Alliance General Assembly forum, hosted by the Filipino group Gabriela, is protesting the Philippines’ hosting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit
next week. (AFP)
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Kim Cornwall, joined Turnbull along with thousands of veterans and their families at a Remembrance Day ceremony at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra.
Turnbull, who believes that Australia should have an Australian citizen as head of state instead of the British monarch, was reminded of criticism of Charles he had made in a 1994 book, “The Reluctant Republic.”
Turnbull wrote at the time that “it was difficult to believe that Prince Charles could ever be accepted as king.”
Asked about that comment, Turnbull said he had no doubt that Charles will succeed his mother, Queen Elizabeth II. “If Charles becomes king of the United Kingdom — and I have no doubt that he will be — unless our constitution has been changed, he will become the king of Australia,” Turnbull told reporters.
Asked if he were happy about that, Turnbull replied: “I am a happy person.”
The royal couple arrived at the national capital as the nation marked the 40th anniversary of a constitutional crisis that convinced many that Australia should sever its constitutional ties with the British monarchy. (AP)