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Clare Monagle

Clare Monagle

Clare Monagle is an Associate Professor in the Department of History and Archaeology at Macquarie University, with expertise in medieval intellectual history and gender studies. She began her royal watching as an eight-year-old on the occasion of the engagement of Diana and Charles.

'To wear the crown too easily: A bizarre new reign begins' by Clare Monagle

October 2022, no. 447 26 September 2022
'To wear the crown too easily: A bizarre new reign begins' by Clare Monagle
Has anyone else been chuckling upon hearing the words ‘Charles III, king of Australia’? In my household, the movie Anchorman is a sacred text, and its buffoonish 1970s news anchor protagonist Ron Burgundy is our holy fool. So devoted is our fandom that we own the Anchorman out-takes DVD. In one scene that was cut, the ambitious and glamorous television journalist Veronica Corningstone confides ... (read more)