âLong may it continue.â
Bryan Stertern-Gill, a spokesman for the Australians for Constitutional Monarchy and for the Victorian chapter of the International Monarchist League, said the interview was âa great shame in view of the great age of the Queen, and Prince Philipâs medical condition, and their lifetime of service to the Commonwealthâ.
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âBut I donât believe it will harm the monarchy here in Australia at all,â he said. âTheyâre saying on the news that âitâs put new impetus into the republican movementâ â well, I donât believe thatâs the case.â
Mr Ronald from the Royal Over-Seas League meeting the Queen in London in 2010.
Viscount Runciman of Doxford, sociologist from a dynasty of shipowners and intellectuals – obituary
He was brought up as the bright only child of an inheritance that combined wealth, connections and a high sense of public duty
22 December 2020 • 3:14pm
Lord Runciman: appointed in 1991 to chair the Royal Commission on Criminal Justice in England and Wales, to probe high-profile miscarriages of justice such as the convictions, subsequently quashed, of the ‘Maguire Seven’ and ‘Guildford Four’
Credit: Brian Smith
The 3rd Viscount Runciman of Doxford, who has died aged 86, was a classical scholar and historical sociologist as well as a leader of the British shipping industry in which his family had prospered. He was also president of the British Academy, chairman of the Royal Commission on Criminal Justice and a City regulator.