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Elizabeth II, the first monarch to be titled Queen of Australia, wearing her Australian insignia as sovereign of the Order of Australia and the Australian Wattle Spray Brooch, 2011. Elizabeth II died on 8 September 2022. She was the longest serving monarch and was succeeded by her son, Charles III.
9. Sept. 2022 · Queen Elizabeth II in Australia. The Queen visited Australia 16 times between 1954, less than a year after she was crowned, and 2011. She was the first and, so far, only reigning monarch to visit ...
- An Enthusiastic Nation
- A “New” and Prosperous Country
- Invited Guest, Not Ruler of The Land
- A Question of The Republic
The queen’s 1954 tour took place during a time described by historian Ben Pimlott as the age of “British Shintoism”. Deference to the Crown was paramount in Britain and the Commonwealth, and many Australians were madly enthusiastic about their queen. After her arrival at Farm Cove in Sydney on February 3 1954, Elizabeth II became the first British ...
During her first two tours in 1954 and 1963, the Australia laid-out for display for the queen was depicted as having gone from being a small colonial settlement to a thriving economy that had ridden to prosperity “on the sheep’s back”. The queen was treated to endless displays of sheep shearing, surf carnivals, wood chopping, whip cracking, and mas...
As early as the 1963 tour, the nation-wide royal fervour had dimmed a little. The 1963 visit witnessed smaller crowds and fewer mass public events. When Prime Minister Robert Menzies courted the queen with the now-famous line, “I did but see her passing by, and yet I love her till I die”, the ensuing blushes – including the queen’s own – reflected ...
By the 12th tour in 1992, the cost of the queen’s visits to Australia were increasingly scrutinised by a public feeling largely indifferent about the royal family. The prime minister of the day, Paul Keating, was seen not so much as an entranced liege lord revelling in the opportunity to see his sovereign “passing by” as one who instead – unthinkin...
From that year they reigned as sovereigns in right of Australia, though the first to be accorded an Australian title, Queen of Australia, was Elizabeth II, in 1953. After the Queen's death in 2022, her son Charles III took over.
12. Sept. 2022 · The passing of Queen Elizabeth II set in motion a series of official events in Australia. There was a wreath-laying ceremony at the Queen's terrace in Parliament House on Saturday. Parliament...
9. Sept. 2022 · The queen’s visits to Australia from 1954 to 2011 offer a snapshot of the changing relationship Australians have had with their sovereign and with the monarchy.
10. Sept. 2022 · The Queen, in turn, seemed fond of Australia – even Queensland, which had presented her with 500 cases of tinned pineapples for her wedding in 1947, was included on the lengthy itinerary. It...
