Is the Commonwealth inconceivable without a monarch?
Posted by AlexT – 17/08/09 at 02:08 pm ‘The Commonwealth without the monarch at its head is inconceivable’, says Professor David Flint, National Convenor of Australians for Constitutional Monarchy. Just as the Crown was essential to the evolution of the world’s most successful system of governance, the Westminster model, so it has been at the very centre of the long evolution of the Commonwealth. No one has put The Queen’s personal contribution as Head of the Commonwealth more clearly than did the thirteen year old Australian youth ambassador, Harry White at the opening of the Melbourne Commonwealth Games: ‘Your Majesty, during the past 54 years of your reign you have been the glue that has held us all together in the great Commonwealth of Nations in good times and bad times. The love and great affection that we all hold for you is spread across one third of the world’s population in our Commonwealth.’ Most citizens of the Commonwealth have known no other Head. Only the elderly remembe
