tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1837676046760437505.post7907759268921813933..comments2024-03-28T22:42:37.931+10:00Comments on Just Watching the Wheels Go Round: Not the Kind of "Surprise" in the New Year I Saw Coming from a Royal Palm Beach SwimBrizdaz (Darren)http://www.blogger.com/profile/16218154629850982033noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1837676046760437505.post-21419702038281157022018-01-17T20:54:21.767+10:002018-01-17T20:54:21.767+10:00Not really, because the British Royal Family are o...Not really, because the British Royal Family are our Royal Family.<br />When I was going to school the national anthem of Australia was 'God Save the Queen', the same as England's.<br />We now have 'Advance Australia Fair' as the national anthem, but nothing else has changed.<br />The Queen of England's head is on all of our coins still.<br />Princess Mary is all over the media here and the Aussies like the Danes, but Aussies will never see her as our queen.<br />She'll just be seen as an Aussie who happens to be the Queen of Denmark. <br />Apart from the British Royal Family, the closest thing Australia would have to a royal family would be a guy named Molly Meldrum and he would be both our king and queen.<br />That's a joke only Australians would get probably and might be a bit hard for me to explain if you don't get it :-)Brizdaz (Darren)https://www.blogger.com/profile/16218154629850982033noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1837676046760437505.post-44043315901607856622018-01-17T20:15:10.417+10:002018-01-17T20:15:10.417+10:00It's just dawned on me that Australia, being a...It's just dawned on me that Australia, being a member of the Commonwealth, you don't have your own Royal Family (it's the British Royal Family, but of course, you share it with the whole of the Commonwealth). So Princess Mary is the closest thing Australia have to your own, uniquely Australian, Royal Family.<br />Maria Rigelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01462530303945149045noreply@blogger.com