King Charles’ coronation at Westminster Abbey tomorrow is world away from the speeches on Australia Day during the 1988 Bicentenary, when the then-prince addressed the great and the good gathered in front of the Sydney Opera House.
Attempting to assuage republicans present, he said that during his schoolboy years in Australia he had the “pommie bits knocked off him”.
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James Curran is The Australian Financial Review’s international editor and professor of modern history at Sydney University.
