Palace letters: Queen's secret correspondence surrounding Gough Whitlam's dismissal to be released on 14 July

Correspondence with former governor general Sir John Kerr to be released in full after Prof Jenny Hocking's lengthy battle

Previously secret correspondence between the Queen and former Australian governor general Sir John Kerr surrounding the dismissal of Gough Whitlam will be released in full on Tuesday morning, Australia's national archives has confirmed.

The decision will guarantee the public will be able to access the entirety of the so-called palace letters, a series of more than 200 exchanges between the Queen, her private secretary and Kerr, the then-governor general, in the lead-up to the 1975 dismissal of Whitlam, the then-Australian prime minister.