He abdicated to his youngest son Graeme in 2017, and died last year.While it has never been recognised by the state or commonwealth governments, the Principality of Hutt River received a letter from Queen Elizabeth II in 2016 on its 46th anniversary.The tourist attraction had its own postage stamps and currency, about 10,000 non-resident citizens and a treaty with Indigenous land owners.Visitors to the province even left with an official Hutt River stamp on their passports as proof of their travels.The province was named for the river that ran through the couple's property and there was even a monument erected bearing the Prince's likeness.No strangers to controversy, the "royal" family was hit with a $3 million tax bill in 2017, with Prince Leonard ordered to pay $2.7 million and his son Arthur to pay more than $240,000.WA Supreme Court Justice Rene Le Miere dismissed their arguments as bizarre, irrelevant and gobbledygook.Prince Leonard's son, Graeme Casley, assumed the sovereign reigns of the Hutt River Principality after his father abdicated due to health concerns.At the time of his ascendance, Mr Casley's most ambitious plan was to establish a permanent community of citizens within the limits of the 'nation'.

And I’ll need your passport.” It’s a long road that leads to the Hutt River, and I’d driven 500km north from Perth to acquire this unusual stamp in my passport. Visitors to the province even left with an official Hutt River stamp on their passports as proof of their travels. "When we get a letter of understanding then I'd like to see a little village here. You might be wondering how Hutt River has managed to survive for so long, without interference from the Australian government.

The province was named for the river that ran through the couple's property and there was even a monument erected bearing the Prince's likeness. Over the past decades, dozens of its citizens have declared independence from Australia and created their own nation within a nation.

Visitors could buy and spend the Hutt River dollar, which was traded one for one for the Australian dollar. Although disappointed, successor Graeme Casley says he is “very proud” of what his father has accomplished and hopes his story will be remembered for generations to come.“I have so many wonderful memories of my life here (in the principality),” he said. Travelers could walk to the principality’s post office to send a letter or purchase Hutt River stamps, then browse the Souvenirs Department and Historical Society, before enjoying a light meal in its tearooms. In recent years, however, it has become known as an eccentric tourist attraction.

Named after the wife of Prince Leonard, it featured findings relating to religion and physics and was created with the help of academics from the Principality’s Royal College of Advanced Research.

But the economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, coupled with a giant tax bill, has forced the principality to announce that it will finally travel to Australia.Hutt River’s origins as a micronation date back to 1970, when the late Prince Leonard Casley claimed he exploited a legal loophole to create the principality in a remote part of Western Australia, 500 kilometers north of the state capital, Perth. Tourism has been one of Hutt River’s main sources of income, especially over the past 15 years, as the internet has helped spread its strange history across the world.

Visitors to the province even left with an official Hutt River stamp on their passports as proof of their travels.

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But the economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, coupled with a giant tax bill, has forced the principality to announce that it will finally travel to Australia.

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