The fun took place during their visit at the Seppeltsfield Winery in Tanunda Barossa in Australia on November 10.
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The Duchess of Cornwall was left hankering for a horse ride when she visited the home of an Australian mounted police unit.
Camilla joined Prince Charles in getting to grips with a WWII field gun as they open the ‘World War II Living Museum, ‘ a week-long exhibition offering highlights from 28 major wartime collections, at St James’s Park.
The Daily Telegraph reports Prince Charles was on the receiving end of an eight second pat of his royal posterior as he was introduced to members of the emergency services. Only 27% opposed replacing Charles, while 22% were undecided on the issue, which has not been a prominent concern in Australia in recent years where the Queen is a much-loved figure. Meanwhile, the nation’s main security and trade partners are, respectively, the United States and China.
But the republican cause has not been a priority in recent years.
Oh, to hear the private conversations between the Turnbulls, the Shortens and the Windsors on Wednesday afternoon after a day of allegations of 40-year-old skulduggery and burnt memos by Malcolm Fraser, and secret letters between the Queen and her now-discredited representative.
Politically, it probably wouldn’t hurt-Turnbull’s poll numbers shot up after he got rid of knights and dames-and there is a clear political incentive for him to make a few kind of pledge on a road map to republicanism.
Peter FitzSimons, Australian Republican Movement chairman and media personality, said on Wednesday that a new conversation about shifting to a republic had to be considered, as it was almost a generation after the first referendum was quashed in 1999.
Mr Turnbull has publicly pushed for a republic since the 1980s, and led a failed effort in the 1990s to switch to an Australian head of state. Since that moment, those who support an Australian republic have been waiting for another opportunity to vote for an overdue change in our national identity. “I was just hoping that he didn’t think I was a insane stalker”.
And it’s not the first time she’s taken charge of a weapon in public, gaining a formidable reputation…
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Australia is “more forward-thinking” than the royals, he said.
