Governor-General of Australia, Prince Chalres

in the mid-1970s Prince Charles expressed an interest in serving as Governor-General of Australia, political realities on the ground made that a non-starter, but what if rather than John Kerr in 1974 The Prince was made Governor-General and stays on till 1977 or 78 how does Charles deal with the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis? what does having the Prince of Wales do to Australian Monarchism/Republicanism?
 
As I don't know the full background to the 1975 crisis or Charles personal position on it I can only go on gut feeling and that is that Charles would have sided with the elected government, ie Whitlam. I think given the role of the monarchy in Britain Charles would have approved the half senate election and would have told Kerr that he would not dismiss a government that had an elected majority in the Australian commons.
 
Actually, he only said "Well, I say, I'd rather like to be Governor-General of Australia, don't you know, what" after the constitutional crisis in 1975 -- he would've been after Kerr, not instead of him. That's probably part of the reason why he was rejected.

But given that, I'd bet he'd be a very hands-off sort of Governor-General like Zelman Cowen was in OTL.
 

Anaxagoras

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Wasn't there a proposal between the wars to give the sons of George V the role of GGs of the Dominions, which went nowhere because the Dominions weren't interested?
 
Wasn't there a proposal between the wars to give the sons of George V the role of GGs of the Dominions, which went nowhere because the Dominions weren't interested?

no, his son Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester was Governor-General of Australia from 1945 to 1947, the others were, De-crowned and maybe a Nazi, The King, and Dead.
 
in the mid-1970s Prince Charles expressed an interest in serving as Governor-General of Australia, political realities on the ground made that a non-starter, but what if rather than John Kerr in 1974 The Prince was made Governor-General and stays on till 1977 or 78 how does Charles deal with the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis? what does having the Prince of Wales do to Australian Monarchism/Republicanism?

I thought Charles wanted to be GG in the early eighties, but I guess you just had to make this an interesting WI by turning it into an ALT '75 Constitutional Crisis, eh?:D

But sorry, no. Not only do I think it's impossible to make the 26-year-old Prince of Wales a vice regal representative (at this age he's right in the middle of his active duty military service, IIRC--that trumps anything else he might want to do, at least while Elizabeth is alive and healthy) but there's no way a post-sixties Australian Labor government imports another royal to be the sovereign's man in Oz. It's no longer WWII.

Now, the Fraser Coalition government asking Charles to become GG circa 1980, that is very interesting. At the very least it will prevent a royal marriage taking place in 1982, and it possibly means Diana never becomes his betrothed.
 
Now, the Fraser Coalition government asking Charles to become GG circa 1980, that is very interesting. At the very least it will prevent a royal marriage taking place in 1982, and it possibly means Diana never becomes his betrothed.

Hmmm, perhaps he would marry an Australian in this scenario.
 
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