| Look away now if you're Australian! |
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| Written by Joanne Leyland | ||||
| Monday, 31 October 2005 | ||||
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Today (Monday) the Public Records Office (PRO) in Kew, near London, are releasing a new collection of previously "secret" papers, one small section of which relates to a small story concerning the Queen. Considering it's taken forty six years for the papers to be declassified, it would be understandable if you expect this to be a story of the upmost importance? But no...the story we've waited almost half a century to read relates to the 'debate' which went on in the corridors of power concerning a gift an Australian company wished to send to Her Majesty. For whatever reason, a company based in the Commonwealth country wished to send their monarch a very odd choice of present: a 'Hills Hoist' rotary dryer! It was an idea which perplexed none other than the Governor General himself. According to the newly released papers, Field Marshall William Slim stepped in and stopped the company spending an inordinate amount of money sending their gift over thirteen thousand miles to Buckingham Palace, undiplomatically condemning the idea as "utter nonsense!". Comment on this article
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