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#KingCharlesReport: The Elgin Marbles and the King. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 6 December 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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#KingCharlesReport: The Elgin Marbles and the King. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/dec/01/king-charles-greek-flag-tie-rekindles-marbles-row-parthenon-marbles

1829 Parthenon

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0:00.0

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Greg

0:33.3

Koppelis here, my guide on the Commonwealth and the King.

0:39.2

King Charles III attending Cop 28, good for him. And there's news there, but at the same time... the all of Australia, the continent. The King and Queen, Charles and Camilla, are now

0:54.4

scheduled to visit Australia in October of 2024. Why, Gregory, does the King

1:00.6

have affection for Australia? He certainly does. I'm not saying that in

1:05.8

particular because he's got a real affection for most of the Commonwealth,

1:10.3

particularly the African and Pacific Island states and the like, but he did go to school

1:15.2

at Geelong Grammar in Victoria outside of Melbourne in his youth, and I understand that that was one of the better experiences of his youth, particularly after he left

1:26.4

Gordonston, the prison school in Scotland, which his father had wanted him to go through

1:31.6

and suffer all of the indignities of that

1:35.8

harsh school.

1:37.2

But so the king definitely has affection for Australia.

1:40.9

He hasn't been able to go there until now because the

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