New High Commissioner meets the Queen
Australian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom George Brandis has met the Queen during a private audience at Buckingham Palace.
The former attorney-general and Queensland senator took up his post in London earlier this month, replacing Alexander Downer, and met the Queen on Wednesday.
Attention has been drawn to a photograph of Prince Harry and the Duchess of Sussex in the room where the Queen received Mr Brandis, believed to have been taken prior to the royal wedding on May 19.
Earlier this month, Mr Brandis controversially labelled the government of his former colleague Tony Abbott as "ideologically right wing", sparking an angry response from Mr Abbott who tweeted, "George Brandis has begun his ambassadorship with a partisan attack that rewrites history".