Associate Professor Giselle Bastin teaches English literature at Flinders University. Her research interests focus on the concept of ‘royalism’, particularly as it is explored in biographies and histories of the British Royal Family.
On the occasion of their 50th wedding anniversary in 1997, Queen Elizabeth II said of her husband Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh that ‘… he has, quite simply, been my strength and stay all these years’.
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