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Principality Of MarlboroughThe Principality of Marlborough was a short-lived micronation located near Rockhampton, Australia in 1993. It came into being when farmer George Muirhead, facing bankruptcy and the possibility of the repossession of his property - Marlborough - by the Commonwealth Bank, challenged the legality of the repossession procedures in the Queensland Supreme Court. When he lost the case, Muirhead returned to his property, and, along with his wife, declared it to be an independent principality where the bank and Queensland government had no legal authority. Less than a week after the proclamation of independence, officers of the Queensland Police entered the Principality and forcibly evicted the Muirheads. The Muirheads initally won widespread support across Australia to their cause, with the public seeing them as hardworking people being victimised by a cold, heartless corporation. Unfortunately, later comments by George Muirhead, where he advocated that one of the factors in the secession was preserving his "racial identity", caused him to lose much of his support from moderate segments of the Australian public. As of 2004, the Muirheads live quietly in Brisbane, Queensland, having abandoned all pretensions of being the sovereigns of the principality. Marlborough
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