Hutt River Province

I remember a few unkind souls around the Northampton area called him Prince Crazy but now he has a nice little earner from tourism. Who's crazy now??

Cheers Pop

PS I think it was the tax man that showed him the error of his ways.......lol

G'day Everyone

Well I'll be bought undone ~ Prince Leonard of the "Hutt River Province".

I've not given the man or the place a thought since visiting the Principality back in the mid 1990's.

Prince Leonard and Princess Shirley were most gracious and genuinely nice people, my wife, two sons and I spent several hours in the "Principality" talking about life and times along with the battles with the Federal Government and of their ( Cazely's ) serious decision forcing the move to become a Principality or a "Successionist State".

The had their own currency and postage stamps ~ along with honorary titles of the Principality. Sadly this was all prior to the invention of digital imagery ~ so my memories will forever stay as colour slides.

Thanks Damien L. Your humble post has dredged up some long ago misplaced mememories.

Safe Easter everyone.

He had a Embassy in Perth. It was a hotel in Hay st, can remember going in there. You could get his stamps and other other item's there.

The Principality of Hutt River is celebrating the 40th Anniversary of Secession on the 21st of April this year and has a full weekend of events planned for the 24th and 25th of April. See http://www.hutt-river-province.com/
If you visit the website you will see that Prince Leonard has been declared an overseas citizen by the ATO and appears at least to pay no tax to Australia. If you visit then you might even see me, as we are making the trip to join in the celebrations.
Cheers
Jeff

I wasn't paying great attention to the commercials this afternoon but one of the current affairs programs must be doing a feature on Hutt River in the near future.
Keep an eye out for it.

Your right Busy Bee, ACA ran the story on it tonight.anyone interested might be able to find out more on the story through nine msn/aca.Hope this helps.
Cheers.

Yep Jeff P you're right with it being 40yrs, Hubby and I called in there when he first started up as a principality, was just setting things up, just checked the date on the tea towel that we picked up at the time and it is 21st April 1970. Looking at the tea towel it has a map of where it is situated and all. Arh the memories there. That trip we did up to Onslow in a HR Holden which we slept in, we packed all our stuff in the boot and headed North, those were the days. Good car that, took us lots of places.

Cheers

D

Just did a bit of checking and it was August 1970 that we called in to have a look at what he was on about. Was worth it, should call in again next time we go past to see the change.
Cheers
D