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Entry: The Crown of Disenchantment Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/the_crown_of_disenchantment#28565 Post contents: On a point of fact, "it is important to note that in neither the King-Byng affair nor the Whitlam-Kerr affair was the Governor General acting on the orders of the actual person who was the Crown at the time" - is that known to be true, or simply a guess? As far as I was aware, any such communications between monarch and Governor-General would be private. I cannot imagine such monumental uses of the Sovereign's authority being made without so much as a telephone call. Admittedly, I doubt it was done on HM's "instruction": more likely her lack of informed objection. Sent at: 2008 12 02