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Palace letters

October 2020

  • A Buckingham Palace letter head is seen on a letter marked ‘Personal and Confidential’ during the Kerr Palace Letters release event in Canberra, Australia, 14 July 2020.

    John Kerr's letters to the Queen's private secretary: 'A raw display of devastation'

    Newly released letters written by the former governor general show he regarded his forced resignation under the Fraser government as the ultimate betrayal

17 July 2020

  • A broken seal is seen on a box containing letters between former Australian Governor-General Sir John Kerr and Buckingham Palace during the Kerr Palace Letters release event in Canberra, Australia, 14 July 2020.

    Letters of an insecure and indiscreet John Kerr make a mockery of the claim that the Queen played ‘no part’

    Jenny Hocking
    The palace letters reveal a litany of depredations in the most extraordinary undermining of elected government

16 July 2020

  • First Dog on the Moon

    First Dog on the Moon
    The Palace Letters aka The Coup-rrespondence!

    First Dog on the Moon
  • Gough Whitlam addresses reporters outside Parliament House in Canberra after his dismissal on 11 November 1975.

    'Ring Buckingham Palace': a recollection from the Whitlam dismissal

    Ross Garnaut

15 July 2020

  • The attorney general Christian Porter

    Christian Porter says governor general’s power to dismiss prime minister keeps ‘governments on their toes’

    Attorney general responds to release of palace letters, saying its contents give no ammunition to advocates for a republic
  • A Buckingham Palace letterhead on a letter to the governor general

    'This monstrous attack': palace letters castigate Australian journalists

    Paul Kelly described as gossipy but fair while ABC stalwart Allan Ashbolt labelled ‘nuts’
  • Martin Charteris, pictured with the Queen during silver jubilee celebrations

    The palace letters: what Martin Charteris revealed to Kerr about UK unions and Labour

    Key views of the Queen’s private secretary in letters to Australian governor general

14 July 2020

  • Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip in Australia in 1973 at the opening of the Sydney Opera House

    Words between Queen and PMs should remain private, palace says

  • a man puts a voting ballot in a plastic tub in Bougainville

    Palace letters: Queen's secretary compared Bougainville's bid for independence to Scotland

  • The dismissal ... November 11, 1975: Gough Whitlam looks on as John Kerr's official secretary, David Smith, announces that the governor general has dismissed the government and installed Malcolm Fraser as caretaker prime minister

    John Kerr complained to Buckingham Palace of Gough Whitlam's 'malice' after dismissal

  • Prince Charles during a visit to Perth, Australia, in 2005

    Australian papers reveal Queen's thoughts on Charles as governor-general

  • 'Better for Her Majesty not to know': palace letters reveal Queen's role in sacking of Australian PM Whitlam

  • Full Story
    What are the palace letters and what do I need to know about them? - podcast

  • The palace letters amount to an act of interference in Australian democracy

    Katharine Murphy

  • Release of Buckingham Palace correspondence on dismissal of Australian government in 1975 – as it happened

  • Palace letters reveal what Queen knew about Australian PM Gough Whitlam's dismissal – video report

  • Gough Whitlam dismissal: what we know so far about the palace letters and Australian PM's sacking

  • The palace letters: read the full documents from the National Archives here

13 July 2020

  • Prime Minister Gough Whitlam addresses reporters outside the Parliament building in Canberra after his dismissal by Australia's governor general in November 1975.

    Full Story
    Coming soon: the palace letters

  • Queen Elizabeth and Sir John Kerr

    Palace letters to be released 45 years after Australian government sensationally dismissed

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