Month: January 2005

Barbados prime minister Owen Arthur has declared that his country will become a republic by the end of the year. In explaining this new urgency to a change already under discussion he referred to the possibility that one day Barbadians might have to swear allegiance to Harry Windsor. Mr. Windsor, who was recently photographed wearing…

Only 45% of Australians now support ditching the British Windsor family for an elected head of state, according to a Newspoll. This is the lowest figure since 1999. The Australian Republican Movement blamed this on a lack of political leadership and vowed to push the case for an Australian head of state back up the…

According to press reports Canadian monarchists are angry that state documents appointing and recalling diplomats will no longer refer to Liz Windsor, Britain’s hereditary head of state. They will be worded instead to reflect the role that the Governor General, Windsor’s representative in Canada, has in such appointments. Windsor is Canada’s hereditary head of state…

Communications with Liz Windsor, Britain’s hereditary head of state, and her family have been exempted from the Freedom of Information Act, which came into force at the start of 2005. The exemption was given to the Windsors despite a claim by the minister responsible for the new Act, Charles Falconer, that there would be “no…