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Queen’s Commonwealth Residences Supported

(Rec. 9 p.m.) MELBOURNE, May 6.

Senior members of the Government including the Prime Minister, Mr Menzies, supported today the suggestion that the Queen should regularly establish residence in Commonwealth countries, the “Melbourne Herald” Canberra correspondent reported. He said that the possibility of arranging regular residential visits to Australia and other Commonwealth countries as suggested by Sir Keith Officer al the Conservative Commonwealth

Council in London at the weekend became an objective after the Queen’s visit to Australia in 1954.

A difficult problem would be the heavy personal burden imposed on the Sovereign by periodic moves from one offic al home to another one, with big transfers of family, personal effects and staff, said the correspondent. If the principle were adopted the Royal household would have to be reorganised to enable it to make smooth moves at regular intervals. A minor difficulty was that if the Queen were to undertake periods of residence in the Commonwealth countries, each would have to provide a residence and office facilities considerably more elaborate than anything necessary for the Governor-General. The Governor-General dealt only with the specific matters that arose between the Australian Government and the Crown. The Queen, living abroad, would still have to handle all of her business with all of the Commonwealth countries. A practical way to give effect to the suggestion would be an arrangement by which the Queen would replace one or other of the Governors-General as a term of appointment expired, the correspohdent suggested. The minimum term of a Governor-General was usually five years, but the Queen might be able to go to one of the Commonwealth countries for a much shorter term, perhaps a year or, at the most two years.

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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28270, 7 May 1957, Page 14

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Queen’s Commonwealth Residences Supported Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28270, 7 May 1957, Page 14

Queen’s Commonwealth Residences Supported Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28270, 7 May 1957, Page 14

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