Whether the British monarchy in Australia is relevant to Australians.

“If even members of the British monarchy say it’s not relevant to their lives anymore, then how could it possibly be relevant to Australians?”.

Mr Biar argued the Meghan and Harry saga exposed the stifling conformity, as well as the total lack of transparency and accountability that lie at the heart of the royal institution and which contradict basic Australian values and principles.

“It lacks accountability, transparency and doesn’t align with many of those Australian values and particularly values that talk about wanting to have your own independence and being able to carve out your own person and have your own view on issues and your own opinion.

“The type of constraint connected with the monarchy isn’t something that sits well with democracy and certainly not Australian democracy and so certainly these events (Megxit) describe the monarchy in its own terms, which has described itself previously as the ‘Firm’.

“It is not the kind of democratic transparency and accountability that we would expect in a representative government.”

Mr Biar commented: “This makes us really curious to know what those letters were saying, because again if there’s been accountability and transparency that one would expect from government, surely nothing should be said between two government representatives at the head of our country that would damage our relationships with another country if they were released