"I declare these games open - " [Queen Elizabeth, David Lange, Bob Hawke, Margaret Thatcher] [picture] /

Title devised by cataloguer.; Published in the Canberra Times on 20 July 1986.; Part of the Pryor collection of cartoons and drawings. The Sunday Panel. The context is the Commonwealth Games, due to start in Edinburgh in a week's time, which are under threat of withdrawals by a number of African nations, offended by the hardline stance of British P.M. Margaret Thatcher who is resisting sanctions against South African. The Queen, who is shortly due to open the Games, is severely unamused with Thatcher and a constitutional row threatens.--Information provided by Geoff Pryor