Prince William May Not Be Able To Secure Monarchy's Future In Australia After Queen

Prince William may not be able to secure the future of monarchy in Australia after Queen Elizabeth II.

There are rumors that the Queen will skip Prince Charles and let Prince William rule after her. However, Australian republicans believe it wouldn’t undermine its goal of creating a republic that is independent from the British monarchy because the support won’t be the same after Queen Elizabeth II.

“Queen Elizabeth is still more popular than William and so any changes inevitably are going to make support for the monarchy weaker in Australia,” Sandy Biar, the national director of the Republican Movement, told Express. “So we’re already starting from a very strong base of support and every succession hereon in is going to weaken the monarchy’s support in Australia.”

In addition, Australia wants to be independent from the monarchy because it has become more multicultural and the traditional perception of national identity has transformed. Biar said that it has outgrown its British heritage and the monarchy doesn’t represent them.

“The monarchy doesn’t represent Australians, represents only a very small number of Australians who still cling to a heritage which is not our national identity,” he continued. “More and more Australians are coming to recognise that Australian history goes well beyond colonisation, that it extends to 60,000 years before that, to the era of the first nations of Australia.”

He also found the monarchy to be a divisive force in Australia’s political sphere and insisted that the country needs a head of state with undivided loyalties.

Meanwhile, some royal experts believe that it is unlikely for Prince William to be crowned and enthroned as king before Prince Charles. Royal commentator Richard Fitzwilliams said that the line of succession will remain the same because the Queen has no power to choose her heir.

“We have a hereditary monarchy so the line of succession is fixed and does not skip a generation. It obviously is not influenced by opinion polls,” Fitzwilliams said.

Also, author Gill Knappet said that the Duke of Cambridge has no interest in ascending the throne before Prince Charles. Prince William has apparently no desire to reign before his appointed time, even if it means that he will have a shorter reign just like the Prince of Wales.

“Although like his father, William will be destined to have a far shorter reign than his grandmother, he has said he has no desire to 'climb the ladder of kingship' before his time,” Knappet said.