The same year also saw a tour by The Prince and Princess of Wales during January and February, and a visit by The Princess Royal.Australia has its own symbols and celebrations to represent its Sovereign.Unlike the United Kingdom, The Queen's birthday is celebrated in Australia as a public holiday.

"The royal documents were released after a four-year court battle brought by Professor Jenny Hocking, from Monash University in Melbourne, who successfully argued that the secretive "palace letters" were of critical historical importance to the nation and should not be kept under wraps because of laws in a different country.Buckingham Palace fought hard to keep the letters out of the public view, however, arguing that secrecy was essential to maintaining "the constitutional position of the monarch and the monarchy.”"The Royal Household believes in the longstanding convention that all conversations between Prime Ministers, Governor Generals and The Queen are private," Buckingham Palace reaffirmed on Tuesday.This debate was finally resolved by the High Court of Australia in May 2020, which ruled that the letters were actually the property of the National Archives Australia.“To have them closed to us, not even through our own laws or regulations, but because of an embargo by the Queen, that has just been a really terrible situation.”Despite this, the release of the Queen's secret letters has not provided the silver bullet many Australian republicans had hoped for — not least because of the actions of Kerr over the dismissal of Prime Minister Whitlam.“I decided to take the step I took without informing the Palace in advance because under the Constitution the responsibility is mine and I was of the opinion that it was better for Her Majesty not to know in advance,” he wrote to the Palace on November 11, 1975, the day of Whitlam's sacking.Charteris later replied: “If I may say so with the greatest respect, I believe that in NOT informing the Queen what you intended to do before doing it, you acted not only with perfect constitutional propriety but also with admirable consideration for Her Majesty’s position.”The Queen sends you her best wishes in this difficult time."

"The Queen has been a regular visitor to Australia throughout her reign.In 16 visits, The Queen has celebrated all aspects of Australian culture and life, from sheep farms to natural wonders such as the Great Barrier Reef, and from the triumph of Olympic and Commonwealth sporting meetings to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art and tradition.The very first Royal visitor to Australia was Prince Alfred, Queen Victoria's second son, and later Duke of Edinburgh. That same year, the royal couple celebrated 70 years of marriage, making theirs the longest union in the history of the British monarchy.In May 2018, Prince Harry, now sixth in line to the throne after his brother’s children, wed the American actress At the center of it all is the queen herself, who celebrated her own 90th birthday in 2016 but shows few signs of slowing down.

In all her duties, she speaks and acts as Queen of Australia, and not as Queen of the United Kingdom.The Queen's Royal style and title in Australia is Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God Queen of Australia and Her other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth.The Governor-General is The Queen's representative in Australia. (Reuters: Victoria Jones/PA)In her message broadcast in the UK, the Queen gave special thanks to those workers tackling the crisis at its forefront. A look back at Queen Elizabeth's visits to Australia in 1954, 1970 and 1982.