# What would have to happen for an upcoming British monarch to not be of House (Mountbatten-) Windsor?

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> [@Schnitte](#):
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> As I understand it, the only reason why Australia hasn’t done it yet is because they don’t agree on how the president who’d replace the King would be elected.

No, we rejected the presented republican model, and the alternatives because we couldn’t agree what powers the President should have vis-à-vis the Prime Minister. A rather more important question.

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> I guess the self-suggesting option would be to rebrand the governor-general as President but otherwise largely following the same principles:

That model, known as the McGarvie model, was presented as a viable option and had some, but insufficient support. Indeed I am a card carrying member.

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> But I guess some Australians would have preferred a more presidential system than that.

No. Australians wanted a less Presidential model. And in the aftermath of the republican high water mark, which was way back in 1999, the ARM movement is currently moribund and couldn’t win a chook raffle.

For those wanting the indulgence, my previous post on the [Australian Constitutional Convention, 1998](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-elizabeth-is-90-should-she-have-held-power-as-queen-this-long-vs-letting-charles-rule/775632/123) and subsequent lost referendum.

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