Society
Tasmania’s very own Royal Family
The Hag
MOVE over Prince William and Prince Harry! Tasmania has it’s own Royal Family. And no, the Hag doesn’t mean the Crown Princess of Denmark, Tasmania’s faraway Princess Mary and her children. No, the Hag means the Guv’s family.
The Guv and Mrs Guv like everyone to stand when they arrive – as a Tas Times correspondent noted, when they went to an IHOS Opera gig at the Ten Days on the Island festival. Not only that, Gov House decreed that ‘Advance Australia Fair’ be played: At the request of the Governor …
All the same, Hag could hardly believe her rheumy eyes when someone thrust under them the Vice-Regal notice published in the Mercury on Monday 30th March. In it, the Guv and Mrs Guv’s grandchildren were annointed as Tassie’s very own Royal Kiddies.
“On Saturday morning at Margate the Governor of Tasmania, the Honourable Peter Underwood, Mrs Underwood and their grandchildren Thomas and Amelia Doyle and Eloise Underwood, attended a performance of ‘Martha,’ a Ten Days on the Island event ……