The late Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom wrote a confidential letter to Australia that won’t be revealed for 63 years.
The letter, which was written by her in November 1986, is locked up in a vault in a historic building in Sydney, according to local news reports in Australia. The letter’s intended readership was the people of Sydney. The letter is supposed to be hidden inside a glass case in a secure area, meaning that nobody, not even the Queen’s personal staff is aware of what is written inside. The letter is sealed and can’t be opened until 2085, according to the instructions.
The letter is signed “Elizabeth R.” and is addressed to the Lord Mayor of Sydney. 16 state visits by Queen Elizabeth II to Australia. Please open this envelope and deliver my message to the people of Sydney on an appropriate day of your choice in the year 2085 A.D., according to the directive. In 1999, Australia had a vote on whether to remove the Queen as head of state; it failed. The world-famous Opera House in Sydney was illuminated in honor of the Queen on Friday.
On Sunday, King Charles III was crowned as Australia’s new monarch, the country’s first in 70 years. New Zealand, another member of the Commonwealth, also recognized King Charles III as its head of state in a public ceremony. After ruling for 70 years, Queen Elizabeth II, the UK’s longest-reigning queen, passed away at the age of 96 on her Scottish estate. Where she had spent most of the summer, she passed away last Thursday in the afternoon. In 1952, the Queen ascended to the throne.
During her 70-year reign, Queen Elizabeth forged a close friendship with Australia. The monarch made many trips to the nation during which she traveled to all the states and interacted with people from all backgrounds, eras, and places. Her Majesty made 16 trips there, the first of which took place in 1954, barely two years after she assumed the position. The Queen, who served as a constitutional monarch and whose son will succeed her as King, did not participate in the day-to-day operations of the Australian Government. She did, however, carry out crucial ceremonial and symbolic responsibilities.
However, the Queen’s death and the King’s coronation bring attention to Australia’s ongoing republicanism. Australians voted to keep the Queen as their head of state in a failed referendum in 1999. Australia is a nation of “Elizabethans,” according to then-prime minister Malcolm Turnbull, who remarked to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Australian Republic Movement.
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More than half of Sydney’s population, or at least one million people, gathered in the city in 1954 to see the new Queen and her husband, Prince Philip, when they arrived to begin their royal tour. Queen Elizabeth arrived in Australia as the country’s first reigning monarch at the age of 27 when she landed at Sydney Airport.
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