News from the Centre for Citizenship
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Windsor Support for Australian Republic Claim
According to the Sunday Express newspaper, Charles Windsor argued 32 years ago that Australia should become a republic. The claim has been made by entrepreneur Harry M Miller. In his autobiography he recalls that at a dinner party Windsor said that “Australia should be a republic and it was really bull to be kowtowing to…
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Canadians Bored By Windsor Visit
According to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation the Canadian tour of Charles and Camilla Windsor was a shadow of previous family visits, which had been known to “bring out thousands of adoring subjects”. According to the broadcaster, many Canadians say the future hereditary head of state will not be able to fill the shoes of his…
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British Monarchists Dismayed By Canadian Poll
An option poll commissioned by Canadian friends of Charles Windsor, son of Canada’s British head of state, has backfired. While most of those polled agreed that the monarchy had had an important place in the history of the former British colony, more than 60% believed that it was outdated. A majority said monarchy was out…
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Canadian TV Asks Whether Monarchy Has Future
CBC TV in Canada will be broadcasting a documentary, called After Elizabeth II: Monarchy in Peril, on 12 November that questions whether the monarchy that country shares with Britain has a future. The TV channel says that Charles Windsor, who is due to succeed his mother as hereditary head of state, “is not widely loved…
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NZ Republic Bill To Be Debated
New Zealanders will be able to vote on whether their country should be freed from feudalism if a Head of State Bill is passed by Parliament. The Bill would require a referendum with three options: a republic with the head of state chosen by Parliament; a republic with a head of state elected by the…
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Andrew Windsor Explains His Role
Andrew Windsor, son of Britain’s hereditary head of state, told the Financial Times in an interview in New York that he had briefed Russian Federation President Dmitry Medvedev for the G20 summit in “five minutes of conversation”. He explained that Medvedev is “young man with no experience of that sort of environment”. Mr. Windsor, who…
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Windsor Charity Under Investigation
The Charity Commission has revealed that it is concerned about the relationship between Charles Windsor and the Prince’s Foundation for the Built Environment, a charity he sponsors. According to the Guardian, the Commission “has now ordered the foundation to explain its trustee decision-making, the activities it undertakes to further its charitable purposes for the public…
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The Rights of the People Have Nowhere To Stand
If Parliament accepts changes to the law proposed by Justice Secretary Jack Straw, some legislators will be free to resign from the House of Lords, hereditary legislators will not be able to hand on their seats to their children and the House will be able to expel legislators for serious misconduct. But the people would…
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Windsor Take Partisan Position
Hereditary head of state Elizabeth Windsor has twice written to the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans, a conservative group within the Anglican Church, to wish it well. The Fellowship is opposed to the ordination as bishops of gay men and lesbians. The British head of state, who is also titular head of the Church of England,…
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Canadian Support for Monarchy Fades
Sixty five per cent of Canadians want their country to end its tie to the British monarchy when Elizabeth Windsor dies, according to a poll by the Globe and Mail newspaper. Seventy per cent of those polled said they felt no personal connection to head of state Windsor or her representative in Canada, the Governor-General.…