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Malcolm Fraser, when prime minister, thought Prince Charles should be appointed Australia's governor general at some date", but the Queen disagreed, according to correspondence.

In a letter from 3 August 1976, the Queen's private secretary, Martin Charteris, told John Kerr that he met with Fraser on two occasions, including a meeting with the Queen on 24 July.

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An interesting reader submission from John Edwards:

I found it interesting that Charteris name-checked Eugene Forsey (handwritten note on the letter of 24 September 1975). Forsey was, at the time, the leading authority in Canada on parliamentary democracy.

Canada was having constitutional discussions on the time, so I'd be interested to know if Forsey was consulted and what his views on the situation were. Canadian premiers have been dismissed before, but none since the early 1900s (and only 5 times in total).