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did the Queen and Kerr write about going to the races?
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Fritz Wuehler
Jul 14, 2020, 10:38:03 AM7/14/20
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When Sir John Kerr presented the 1977 Melbourne Cup, it was almost exactly two years since he had committed his constitutional faux pas.
He was dapper in a a three-piece suit and, it seemed, awfully drunk.
His obvious inebriation, combined with his thicket of white hair and his aristocratic bearing, made him seem more like a Barry Humphries' character than the governor-general.
The crowd hissed as he tottered through his speech.
He was dapper in a a three-piece suit and, it seemed, awfully drunk.
His obvious inebriation, combined with his thicket of white hair and his aristocratic bearing, made him seem more like a Barry Humphries' character than the governor-general.
The crowd hissed as he tottered through his speech.
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