LONDON : A strong royal command has been issued for an Australian and any of his rowdy mates to be given VIP treatment in Buckingham Palace during the wild coronation ceremonies, and for the rest of the year .
Little Darwin understands the lucky person is Peter Burleigh , a former bohemian illustrator and advertising guru , shown above departing Australia for the Mother Country back in l969 , on a diplomatic mission to show the Poms that Orstralians are not uncouth descendants of convicts obsessed with kangaroos , meat pies .
This Burleigh chap , apparently a drop out from university architecture studies , produced bizarre drawings for a questionable Melbourne magazine , Broadside , edited by Pete Steedman , who dressed like a bikie in denim and leather jacket , carried a shiv , and was related to Guy Fawkes who tried to blow up Westminster .
In fact , the True Blue , Reds under the Bed , Menzies Government considered charging Steedman with treason because of his stand against the Vietnam war , which would have seen him locked up in the Tower of London , flogged daily and fed on stuffed ravens .
So why is King Charles prepared to give Burleigh and his suspect cobbers the keys to Buck Palace and its well stocked wine cellar ?
The reason is revealed in the last comicstrip Burleigh drew for Broadside in which he said he was taking a food parcel to London for Prince Charles and also to warn the Brits that weirdo comedian Barry Humphries was a "twisted intellectual ."
In that strip he proudly drew himself ,above , in a turned up slouch hat ,brandishing a personal letter of introduction from the Victorian Premier , Henry Bolte , declaring Peter Burleigh is fair dinkum , a china plate . It went on to say he comes from the greatest little state in Australia and would love to be on the "feed bag with youse."
Because Burleigh personally delivered the food parcel to Chiller -kept under his sweaty armpit during the flight- the leftovers fed to the greedy palace Corgis, Prince Charles told Little Darwin he feels obligated to give Pete , his wife, Jude, and any other mates , a knees up.
Our monarch also observed that he and Burleigh both have prominent ears indicating their could be a royal blood link through Basil Sweetlips .
Like graffiti you see in a public convenience, the puzzling name Basil Sweetlips oft appeared in Burleigh cartoons , without explanation..
Tracked down in France , in a fancy eatery , Peter Burleigh responded to the royal beano promise by King Charles lll by saying he did not want to be served any of the coronation quiche crap while he is lodged in the palace with his many roistering mates from yesteryear .
