In official Australian records, King Charles began his life here as just four dashes in a piece of official correspondence from then prime minister Ben Chifley to governor general William McKell.
On November 5, 1948, roughly a week before the King was born, Chifley wrote to McKell enclosing the draft of a telegram he wanted to be dispatched to Buckingham Palace the moment news of the birth filtered through.
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James Curran is The Australian Financial Review’s International Editor and professor of modern history at Sydney University.
