A historian has demanded King Charles “apologise to Australians” for an “utterly improper” breach of neutrality after it was revealed he weighed in on one of the most controversial events in Australian political history.
Professor Jenny Hocking - who won a High Court bid for the National Archives of Australia to release Buckingham Palace's correspondence with Sir John in the lead up to the infamous dismissal – said the monarch must publicly acknowledge his"astonishing" breach of neutrality.
“What you did last year was right and the courageous thing to do and most Australians seemed to endorse your decision when it came to the point,” he wrote. “Charles was very much involved because of that critical conversation that he relayed to the Queen about the prospect of a possible dismissal,” the historian told The Scandal Mongers Podcast.
During Australia's constitutional crisis of 1975, Prime Minister Gough Whitlam addresses reporters outside the Parliament building in Canberra after his dismissal by Australia's Governor-General. Picture: Getty Images.“He said, ‘What you did was the right and proper thing to do'
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