Key views of the Queen’s private secretary in letters to Australian governor general
Newly released letters from the mid-1970s show an almost constant dialogue between the Queen’s then private secretary, Martin Charteris, and the Australian governor general, John Kerr, in which they discussed major topics of the day in both countries.
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