A tiny ‘nation’ in outback Australia Olivier Chouchana/Getty Images The principality was founded on 21 April 1970 by the late Leonard Casley Fifty years ago, this remote micronation declared independence in a story of princes and princesses, taxes and treason and wheat quotas and war. Richard Collett The Principality of Hutt River is located 500km north of Perth in Western …
CNN — The 50-year reign of an Australia-based micronation formed by a “prince” has come to an end. Hutt River’s origins as a micronation date back to 1970, when the late Prince Leonard Casley claimed he’d exploited a legal loophole to create the principality in an isolated part of Western Australia, 500 kilometers north of state capital Perth. Olivier Chouchana/Gamma-Rapho/Getty …
