(9/9/22) Intended for the Platinum Jubilee earlier this year, now this will serve as a memory to the late Queen, Elizabeth II, whom we share many happy memories of. May she rest in peace. God Save The King.

In Australia, the song has standing through a Royal Proclamation issued by GovernorGeneral Sir Ninian Stephen on 19 April 1984. It declared "God Save the Queen" to be the Royal Anthem and that it is to be played when the Australian monarch or a member of the Royal Family is present, though not exclusively in such circumstances. The same proclamation made "Advance Australia Fair" the national anthem and the basis for the "ViceRegal Salute".

Prior to 1984, "God Save the Queen" was the national anthem of Australia. In 1975, former Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, dismissed by GovernorGeneral Sir John Kerr, alluded to the anthem in his comment "Well may we say 'God save the Queen', because nothing will save the GovernorGeneral!".

LYRICS

God save our gracious Queen!
Long live our noble Queen!
God save the Queen!
Send her victorious
Happy and glorious
Long to reign over us
God save the Queen!

Thy choicest gifts in store,
On her be pleased to pour
Long may she reign.
May she defend our laws,
And ever give us cause,
To sing with heart and voice,
God save the Queen!