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Soap Oprah froths up republicans

Australians won’t fall for a fake republic built on lies

20 March 2021

9:00 AM

20 March 2021

9:00 AM

Desperate for that silver bullet which will drop some politicians’ republic into their laps, Australia’s official republicans rushed to capitalise on Soap Oprah, as the Daily Telegraph headlined what threatens to be serialised into ‘Les pensées sublimes de la duchesse souffrante’.

Much of what was claimed is fiction.

Thus, it was not the colour of his skin, but King-Emperor George V’s 1917 decision to cull the number of princes, that denied Master Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor the title Prince. 

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