In 1969, a wheat farmer in Western Australia was told how much he
could grow on his own land.
He refused. He gathered his family, drew a border, and declared his
farm a sovereign nation. He crowned himself prince.
He survived courtrooms, tax collectors, and a government that never
once recognized his flag. He minted his own currency, stamped his own
passports, wore his own crown—for forty-seven years.
Tragedy found him too—a wife buried, a kingdom of one grieving beside
him—until finally, in 2017, he handed the crown to his son and stepped
down.
Even then, the story wasn’t finished. Two years later, the prince was
gone. A year after that, so was his country.
THE PRINCE OF WHEAT is the true story of a man who chose to rule his
own field rather than kneel in someone else’s kingdom, and paid the
price for it anyway.
