Today in Canada’s Political History: Newly-elected PM Brian Mulroney has his first private audience with Her Majesty the QueenOnly five-days in office as Prime Minister on this date in 1984, Brian Mulroney had his first private audience with Her Majesty the Queen while both were in New Brunswick. In the years that followed, the Queen and Mulroney would develop a warm relationship, particularly as the Commonwealth strove to combat South African apartheid. Years later, in his Memoirs, Mulroney reproduced the entry in the private journal he made after his meeting with the Queen. “My first private meeting with the Queen took place in her suite at the hotel in Moncton,” he wrote. “Her Majesty offered a private, intimate meal in honour of the new prime minister and his wife.

Source: National Post September 22, 2022 21:10 UTC