Robert Aldrich is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Sydney, author of Banished Potentates Dethroning and exiling indigenous monarchs under British and French colonial rule, 1815-1955, and co-editor (with Cindy McCreery) of Crowns and Colonies: European monarchies and overseas empires, Royals on Tour: Politics, pageantry and colonialism, and Monarchies and Decolonisation in Asia, as well as a special issue of the Royal Studies Journal on twentieth-century British royal visits to Australia and the other Dominions.