The Queen said on Tuesday revelations included in the newly released Palace Letters show neither she nor the Royal Household played any role in the dismissal of Gough Whitlam in 1975.
Restating the Queen Elizabeth's support for Australia, "the primacy of the Australian constitution and the independence of the Australian people", a statement from Buckingham Palace said longstanding convention dictated conversations between the monarch and prime ministers or governors-general were "private".
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Tom McIlroy is the Financial Review’s Canberra bureau chief based in the press gallery at Parliament House. He was previously the AFR’s political correspondent. Connect with Tom on Twitter. Email Tom at thomas.mcilroy@afr.com
