“Successive surveys in Australia have shown increasing levels of support for the monarchy after a long period where support for the same was widely seen to be in an inexorable decline. This perception remains in spite of evidence to contrary, notably the failure of the 1999 referendum to replace the Queen with a Republican government”
Bibliography
Royal Visits to Australia
“There are many ways to shine light on the story of a nation. This book looks at Australia from the 1860s to the 2010s through the prism of royal tours-in the hope of finding something new about the country and its culture”
Monarchy and the End of Empire. The House of Windsor, the British Government, and the Post-war Commonwealth
“The legacy of Empire continues to haunt British society and remains as contentious a subject as ever. The monarchy, too, seems to have lost nothing of its fascination or its capacity for generating controversy”
Biographies
The Queen and Mrs. Thatcher
“This is the story of two powerful women who met and disliked each other on sight. For over one decade, they politely waged a quiet war on both personal and political fronts”
Queen Elizabeth II and the Evolution of the Monarchy
“The Queen has stood above politics, and has faultlessly maintained an impartiality and discretion on sensitive matters in her dealings with the 12 Prime Ministers who have served during her reign”
Young Elizabeth: The Making of our Queen
“In 2012, the year of her Diamond Jubilee, the Queen is less than four years away from superseding Queen Victoria as Britain’s longest reigning monarch, and she has been one of the most popular queens in history”