King lands in Sydney on historic tour of Australia

King Charles and Queen Camilla person received an authoritative invited astatine Sydney Airport, astatine the commencement of their sojourn to Australia connected Friday night.

Australia’s governor-general Sam Mostyn was determination to greet the royal visitors, on with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

The PM volition past person a gathering with the King and Queen astatine Admiralty House, the governor-general’s residence.

It’s the King’s archetypal sojourn to Australia since helium became the country’s caput of authorities successful September 2022.

The ceremonial invited volition besides see children giving a posy to the Queen.

This volition beryllium the biggest travel by the King since his cancer diagnosis earlier this year.

His attraction volition beryllium suspended portion helium is successful Australia and during the adjacent limb of his travel successful Samoa, wherever helium volition be a Commonwealth leaders’ summit.

The past specified authoritative accomplishment by a monarch successful Australia was successful 2011, erstwhile the late Queen Elizabeth II landed successful Canberra.

The sojourn by King Charles volition see supporting biology projects, gathering governmental and assemblage leaders and a naval reappraisal successful Sydney Harbour.

The sojourn has re-opened questions astir whether Australia should beryllium a republic with an Australian caput of state.

Those supporting a republic person been selling T-shirts labelling the royal sojourn a “farewell tour”. But monarchists accidental it is “insulting” that nary of the six authorities premiers volition be an authoritative reception for the King successful Canberra connected Monday.

Ahead of the sojourn letters betwixt Buckingham Palace and the Australian Republic Movement were revealed, successful which palace officials repeated that whether Australia became a republic oregon remained a law monarchy was a prime for the Australian people.