Buckingham Palace announced that the King's youngest living brother, the tall, soldierly Duke of Gloucester, will become Australia's Governor General next July.
George VI will feel the Duke's departure keenly; since the death of the Duke of Kent, Gloucester has been more than ever His Majesty's main help in the interminable chores of royalty. But a Royal Duke posted in Canberra should bind the British Commonwealth even more solidly together.
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