The British Queen’s representative to Australia said today he had offered to resign as Governor General – the country’s nominal head of state.

Beleaguered Peter Hollingworth, the Queen’s representative in Australia, was under more pressure today, amid reports that he wrote a letter saying an alleged child sex abuse victim initiated a relationship with the alleged abuser.

Australian governor-general Peter Hollingworth, under fire for allegedly covering up child sex abuse while he was an Anglican archbishop, left a children’s welfare charity today.

Australian child protection activists today called on the British queen’s representative to resign over an alleged cover-up of sexual abuse at a girls’ school a decade ago.