King Charles and Queen Camilla are visiting Australia this week on the first royal tour of the country since he succeeded his mother Queen Elizabeth II.

Here’s what you need to know this Monday morning:

• An Australian politician interrupted the King’s address at Parliament House in Canberra with a foul-mouthed rant after he gave a speech praising his welcome to Australia
• Senator Lidia Thorpe, a high-profile Indigenous activist with a track record of stunts at major political events, screamed out ‘f*** the colony’ and ‘you are not my king’
• Dressed in a native fur coat, she shouted: ‘You committed genocide against our people. Give us our land back.
• Buckingham Palace declined to comment on Thorpe’s outburst in Parliament House, but sources brushed off the lone protester.
• Earlier in the day, the King and Queen arrived at a church in North Sydney where they were met with loud cheers and a handful of demonstrators calling for indigenous rights and waving Palestinian and Lebanese flags.

The Daily Mail’s Royal Editor Rebeeca English reports from Canberra…

Aunty Violet Sheridan, a Senior Ngunnawal Elder, spoke of her fury at the outburst, describing it as ‘disrespectful and rude’.

She explained that she has been asked by the Australian Prime Minister and Cabinet Office to give the official ‘Welcome to Country’ at Parliament for the King and Queen and had been ‘honoured to do’.

She was sitting on the stage with them when Lidia Thorpe staged her intervention and said: ‘It was fabulous right up until that incident . I thought she was disrespectful and out of line. She does not speak for me or my family.

‘I did the official ‘welcome to country’ in the Great Hall. I was asked by the Prime Minister and Cabinet to come along as I am a senior elder in the Ngunnawal community. These are our ancestral lands. This is my mother’s country.

‘I was on the stage sitting just beyond the Prime Minister and it absolutely frightened the life out of me. I didn’t expect it and I am sure no-one else was expecting it. Someone later told me she did the same at the war memorial earlier. He is a guest of ours and she is a senator, for goodness sake. It was out of place. She hasn’t done it for a little while and I am very disappointed she to chose to do it [again], then. If she did it at the war memorial then why repeat that act again. She’s already the point.

‘We are all so disappointed by it. To have that in the Great Hall? Disgusting. I am so upset about her. He has waited so long to be king, he has rehearsed for it all his life. He is our king, our sovereign and he has got cancer.

‘I said to my husband ‘I feel so sad for him’. I was sitting tight by him. I am a very spiritual person and I feel really comfortable about him. I just felt it. He is a good man. He thanked me for my welcome. This is sad. He has got cancer and that idiot, I am sorry to say that word, went and did that. I felt so sad that he has travelled all this way . I am a big supporter of reconciliation and the healing process. We need to work this out. I don’t want my grandchildren when Prince George becomes King and comes here and that happens to him. I hope we fix this up before our next generation comes through .

‘Hopefully people see it for what it is. A one-off idiot.’

Lidia Thorpe has told the BBC she wanted to send King Charles a ‘clear message’ he is not Australia’s monarch as the fallout from her outburst in Parliament continues.

Ms Thorpe (pictured earlier this month) said the King is not sovereign because ‘he is not of this land’.

She made the comments to the BBC after shouting ‘You are not our King’ at the end of a speech Charles gave at Australia’s Parliament House in Canberra.

The senator told the broadcaster:

I wanted to send a clear message to the King of England that he is not the King of this country. He is not my King. He is not sovereign. We are sovereign. To be sovereign, you have to be of the land. He is not of this land.

We have been demanding a treaty for decades and decades. There is a sophisticated genocide going on against my people.

We have…almost 24,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children that have been taken from their families.

The royals visited an Australian war memorial, attended a tree planting, and lastly went to the Australian National Botanic Gardens where they walked through rainforest gully.

Meanwhile, King Charles met with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and visited a scientific research agency to see how bush fires are being tackled.

The most notable moment of the day came in the Australian Parliament where the King was heckled by senator Lidia Thorpe after giving a speech praising the welcome he has received in Australia.

Here’s some pictures of the day:

King Charles III speaks to schoolchildren in the garden of Government House in Canberra

Queen Camilla speaks to children at Australian National Botanic Gardens

Australia’s PM Anthony Albanese shows the King the Great Seal of Australia

The King delivers a speech while attending a Parliamentary reception

Lidia Thorpe disrupts event by shouting ‘not my King’ during proceedings

Charles and Camilla walk through the Australian National Botanic Gardens

As the UK wakes up to see the hostile reaction shown towards King Charles by Australian senator Lidia Thorpe, we can now show you some of the feeling in Australia where some of Ms Thorpe’s political colleagues are far from happy.

United Australia Party Senator Ralph Babet demanded Ms Thorpe apologise for showing ‘utter disrespect’ to the King who had visited Canberra on Monday.

Mr Babet himself hit the headlines last year when he declared his support for Donald Trump, assuring the former president and Republican nominee he has ‘many friends in the Australian Parliament’.

In what is expected to be their last royal engagement in Canberra today, the King and Queen have visited the Australian Botanic Gardens where they took a walk in a rainforest.

Seemingly impressed by the large array of trees and plants, the King told Dr Rebecca Pirzl, the head of the gardens, ‘it’s extraordinary’ as he studied the area.

The Daily Mail’s Royal Editor Rebecca English captured footage of the couple enjoying the surroundings.

Australian senator Lidia Thorpe is a high-profile Indigenous activist with a track record of stunts at major political events.

An independent senator from Victoria and an Aboriginal Australian woman, Ms Thorpe, 51, has kept Australians on their toes since she was sworn into the Senate in 2022.

Eye-catching stunts include defending her ex-boyfriend from deportation to screaming profanities outside a Melbourne strip club at 3am.

But her most controversial to date happened earlier today when she directed an outburst at King Charles following an address to Parliament.

She revealed she she intended to hand King Charles a ‘notice of complicity’ that requests he be charged and prosecuted at the International Criminal Court for genocide.

Ms Thorpe is accusing the British Crown of perpetrating ‘heinous crimes’ against the indigenous population, also known as First Peoples.

She said crimes include ‘war crimes, crimes against humanity and failure to prevent genocide’.

Earlier this year, senator Thorpe introduced a parliamentary bill she says could pave the way for atrocity crimes such as genocide to be pursued in Australia.

This was the moment an impeccably-dressed alpaca sneezed on King Charles as he was given a royal greeting in Canberra earlier today.

The animal, named Hephner, was among the crowds waiting to greet the King and Queen at an Australian war memorial and sported a shirt and waistcoat with a bow tie – and even a gold crown perched on top of his woolly head.

The King, a keen farmer, was apparently left in ‘disbelief’ after Hephner sneezed on him as he went to say hello.

Lidia Thorpe has just released a new statement after claiming she was ‘silenced’ during her outburst in the Australian Parliament following King Charles’ address in Canberra.

Here is her updated statement in full:

Today I intended to hand King Charles a notice of complicity in the Genocide of the First Peoples of this county. Krauatungalung Elder, Uncle Robbie Thorpe, issued this notice to the International Criminal Court on October 13 this year, requesting King Charles be charged and prosecuted for genocide.

The visit by the so-called King should be an occasion of Truth-telling about the true history of this country. The colonial state has been built on the continuing Genocide on First Peoples.”

Today I was silenced and removed from the parliamentary reception when pointing out that the Crown stole from First Peoples. The truth is, this colony is built on stolen land, stolen wealth and stolen lives.”

The British Crown committed heinous crimes against the First Peoples of this country. These crimes include war crimes, crimes against humanity and failure to prevent genocide. There has been no justice for these crimes. The Crown must be held accountable.

Today, the AFP threatened to arrest me for wearing a t-shirt that said ‘Stolen Land, Stolen Lives, Stolen Wealth’. I was at a rally to call out the crimes committed by the Crown. This is a clear attack on free speech and expression, at the war memorial of all places.

Sovereign Elder Uncle Coco was arrested by AFP today for peacefully standing up against the Genocide on his people and all First Peoples of this continent. This colonial government will punish our Elders for protesting against a Genocide but refuse to hold the perpetrators to account.

Today we call for justice, an end to this ongoing genocide, for Treaty and a republic. We want to be able to live in peace and finally come together as a nation.

The King shook the tree after planting it, which is a symbol of good luck.

Lidia Thorpe has addressed her wild outburst at Parliament House in a statement on Monday afternoon.

The independent senator said the Crown had ‘committed henious crimes’ against Indigenous Australians, and said she intended on handing the King a ‘notice of complicity in the genocide of the First Peoples of this country’.

She was seen carrying a folded up piece of paper during the interruption.

‘Today I was silenced and removed from the parliamentary reception when pointing out that the Crown stole from First Peoples,’ she said in a media release.

‘The truth is, this colony is built on stolen land, stolen wealth and stolen lives.

‘These crimes include war crimes, crimes against humanity and failure to prevent genocide. There has been no justice for these crimes. The Crown must be held accountable.’

She also addressed an earlier scuffle she’d had with police where she was seen ripping off her t-shirt.

‘Today, the AFP threatened to arrest me for wearing a t-shirt that said ‘Stolen Land, Stolen Lives, Stolen Wealth’,’ she said.

‘I was at a rally to call out the crime committed by the Crown. This is a clear attack on free speech and expression, at the war memorial of all places.’

The King was seen chatting to Danny Abdallah during official engagements in Canberra on Monday.

Mr Abdallah’s three children, Antony, 13, Angelina, 12, Sienna, eight, were killed when they, along with their cousin Veronique Sakr, 11, were hit by a drunk and drugged driver in February, 2020.

Astonishingly the devoutly Christian Abdallahs said they forgave the driver responsible, Samuel Davidson, who in jail converted to the family’s Maronite Catholicism.

The King, along with Anthony Albanese, were seen speaking with Mr Abdallah as he held his baby girl in his arms, who was born in April.

Mr Abdallah also attended the late Queen’s funeral.

Buckingham Palace declined to comment on the incident.

But sources brushed off Ms Thorpe’s behaviour, saying Their Majesties were ‘deeply touched’ at the warmth of the welcome they had received throughout the day.

One palace source said: ‘Their Majesties were deeply touched by seeing and hearing the very many thousands who’d turned out to support them, and are only sorry they didn’t have a chance to stop and talk to every single one.

‘The warmth and scale of the reception was truly awesome. While they are grateful to all the crowds, Their Majesties particularly enjoyed hearing individual stories of those who’d made such a special effort to be there.’

The couple did undertake a planned meet and greet outside Parliament House, but it only lasted a few minutes despite the many hundreds who had turned out for a glimpse of them.

Many said they had queued from 8am in blistering heat and some had even flown in from other cities, including Cairns, in order to pay their respects.

Former Treasurer Joe Hockey said the independent senator should be ‘suspended’ from attending similar events during Their Majesties’ visit Down Under.

‘If an MP or Senator seeks attention by misbehaving when we have visiting dignitaries then they should be suspended from attending the next three similar events,’ he wrote on X.

‘No matter what your views please be respectful of guests.’

Prominent entertainment reporter labelled the senator ‘vermin’ after her actions at Parliament House on Monday.

‘So everyone must respect the Welcome To Country ceremonies. But Lydia – who signed oath to the Crown – doesn’t have to respect the reigning Monarch when choosing to be in his presence,’ he wrote on X.

‘She’s revolting. Surely there must be a sanction or penalty that can be imposed on her?’

Former prime minister, Tony Abbott, who watched the interruption unfold labelled it ‘political exhibitionism’, the SMH reported.

Victoria Cross recipient, Keith Payne, said it was ‘amazing’ Ms Thorpe was even allowed through the door.

‘That was uncalled for and un-Australian,’ he said.

Businessman Dick Smith said the outburst was a factor of a ‘wonderful part of our democracy’.

Others also weighed in, slamming the ‘disrespectful’ behaviour of the senator.

Good old Lidia Thorpe can’t help making a d******d of herself. She should be removed from politics once and for all,’ one wrote.

‘Lidia Thorpe is making a cracking fool of herself screaming abuse at King Charles right now,’ wrote another on X.

A third simply said: ‘What an embarrassment to Australia.’

The Great Hall was completely silent when Ms Thorpe, an independent senator for Victoria and Indigenous rights activist, began her outburst.

‘You are not our King, you are not sovereign! You committed genocide against our people, give us our land back!’ she shouted while draped in a possum-skin coat.

‘Give us what you stole from us! Our bones, our skulls, our babies, our people, you destroyed our land!

‘Give us a treaty, we want a treaty in this country! This is not your land, this is not your land! You are not my King, you are not our King.

As Thorpe was dragged out of sight, the audience heard her yell: ‘F*** the colony, f*** the colony’.

The event was quickly wrapped up after the outburst.

It’s been an action-packed day for the royals, with more official engagements still on the schedule for Monday in Canberra.

Queen Camilla will attend a roundtable discussion on domestic violence, while King Charles will speak to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Opposition leader Peter Dutton.

Charles will also visit the CSIRO National Bushfire Research Centre to meet with firefighters and scientists.

The couple will later plant trees outside Government House.

Following Lidia Thorpe’s outburst, a large contingent of security officers outside in the forecourt brought the barriers in to corral the crowd of loyal well-wishers closer to the King and Queen’s vehicles parked in the Parliament forecourt for departure.

This put the royal party at a further distance away from Aboriginal and sovereign citizen protesters who had continually chanted and waved red ensign and Eureka flags on the lower forecourt all morning.

When Charles and Camilla eventually emerged, some 15 minutes behind the official schedule, they were greeted by a cheer and the waving of Australian flags and offers of flowers.

Queen Camilla greeted Joan David, who told her she was born in the same year as Camilla’s late mother-in-law, Queen Elizabeth II.

Seated in a wheelchair under a large umbrella, 98-year-old Mrs David was enthusiastically encouraged to stay put by Queen Camilla, who said: ‘you are better off under your umbrella in this sun’.

One woman, Kate, got a laugh out of Camilla when she told the Queen, ‘I think Dame Edna is here in spirit’.

The Queen replied, ‘yes, yes!’, amused at the reference to Camilla and Charles’ friendship with Barry Humphries, and an iconic photo of them being greeted by his creation, Dame Edma Everage in London.

Two little girls, Liliana, five, and Sophia, three, gave Camilla a photograph of their new house in Evatt, Canberra, which she graciously accepted, along with other gifts of a cork hat and a toy kangaroo.

Entrepreneur Dick Smith told Daily Mail Australia he had spoken with King Charles inside the reception and reminded him of the time Smith had landed his helicopter in the grounds of Balmoral Castle in Scotland, in 1982.

‘He remembered me, but I suppose you would with a helicopter in the castle grounds,’ Mr Smith said.

One family which turned up to meet the King, but missed out on shaking his hand as the monarch’s walkabout appeared to be cut slightly short, was an extended Nepalese-Australian family.

Wearing Nepali cloth topi hats, the ten-strong clan said they had travelled from Sydney to meet ‘our King’.

Naniram Sapkota, with his relatives from the Bhusal, Bhattari and Chaulagain branches of the family said although Nepal had been a sovereign country since its war with the British empire in the 1940s, they revered the monarch and ‘we love our king.

‘We respect King Charles as god,’ Mr Sapkota said.

King Charles and Queen Camilla refused to allow the outburst from Lidia Thorpe to ruin their visit to Parliament House on Monday.

His Majesty and the Queen were seen smiling as they remained seated on stage as Ms Thorpe was escorted out by security.

King Charles turned to prime minister Anthony Albanese – who also appeared calm and in good spirits – while Queen Camilla leaned towards Mr Albanese’s fiancee Jodie Haydon.

Ms Thorpe had waited until the end of King Charles’ speech to launch into her foul-mouthed outburst.

Ms Thorpe made a statement during the National Anthem in Parliament House’s Great Hall on Monday, turing her back when it began.

She’d earlier done the same when God Save The King played outside the War Memorial.

The Great Hall was completely silent when Ms Thorpe, an independent senator for Victoria and Indigenous rights activist, began her outburst.

‘You are not our King, you are not sovereign! You committed genocide against our people, give us our land back!’ she shouted while draped in a possum-skin coat.

‘Give us what you stole from us! Our bones, our skulls, our babies, our people, you destroyed our land!

‘Give us a treaty, we want a treaty in this country! This is not your land, this is not your land! You are not my King, you are not our King.

As Thorpe was dragged out of sight, the audience heard her yell: ‘F*** the colony, f*** the colony’.

The event was quickly wrapped up after the outburst.

Ms Thorpe had earlier been caught in a scuffle with police officers while protesting against the arrival of the King and Queen.

A small group of protesters outside the Australian War Memorial in Canberra were told to move on by police.

Ms Thorpe, who is understood to have been part of the protest, was seen arguing with a police officer who held onto her shirt.

Ms Thorpe then pulled her shirt off and stormed away from the officer.

‘Everything that we suffer in this country is because of that colonial invasion,’ she said after the tussle.

Ms Thorpe has been vocal about her feelings towards the monarchy, and last year co-signed a letter urging King Charles to apologise for the effect of colonisation.

She along with representatives from 11 other countries signed the letter ahead of Charles’ Coronation.

Earlier on Monday, Senator Thorpe turned her back as the Australian anthem played. She did the same when God Save The King was played.

In a statement released on Monday, Senator Thorpe said the British Crown and King Charles should be prosecuted for ‘genocide’.

She also said a treaty with Indigenous Australians ‘must be central’ in any move towards a republic.

King Charles spent six months at Timbertop, a rural campus of Geelong Grammar School in rural Victoria, in 1966.

‘All I can say is I arrived as an adolescent and left as a more rounded and even somewhat chiselled character once I had contended with brown snakes, leaches, funnel-web spiders and bull ants,’ he told Parliament House on Monday.

‘And bearing in mind this was very nearly 60 years ago, having been given certain unmentionable parts of a bull calf to eat from a branding farm from outback Queensland.

‘So it was, therefore, that my own bond with Australia was formed early on. Every time I returned to the sunburnt country, I am always moved by the hauntingly evocative cries of a kookaburra, the screeching of the galah and the warbling of the magpie.’

‘As King, you have an extraordinary duty to the traditions so carefully upheld, protected and nurtured by generations of your forebears,’ Mr Albanese said in his address to the King in Parliament House’s Great Hall.

‘Not least your mother, Queen Elizabeth II herself, such a shining thread through the modern story of Australia.

‘As she served her people unflaggingly, she was respected, she was cherished and she was much loved. At the end of her most extraordinary life, Australia mourned with you and your family.’

Opposition leader Peter Dutton received a loud chorus of laughs in response to a joke he made about the King’s arrival in Australia.

He was speaking to a crowd inside the Great Hall at Parliament House on Monday when he made the remark.

‘We hope your spirits have been lifted by the response you have received so far yesterday in Sydney, and today at the War Memorial, and indeed here in this hall in this eclectic gathering,’ Mr Dutton said.

‘People had hair cuts, shined shoes, and suits have been pressed, and that’s just the Republicans.’

They will attend a reception in the Great Hall hosted by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his fiancee Jodie Haydon.

Mr Albanese and Opposition leader Peter Dutton will both speak to King Charles one-on-one.

A range of MPs will also be in attendance.

A 21-gun salute was performed by the Federation Guard as the pair arrived.

The King was 10 minutes later than expected, but the crowd didn’t care and as snipers watched overhead his cavalcade rolled in to a rousing cheer from onlookers.

Already thrilled by the entry of the Federation Guard band and the boom and smoke of the 21 gun salute, people who had driven from Queensland, Victoria and country NSW stood for their fourth hour in the hot Canberra sun and yelled excitedly from behind the barricades.

The band played Waltzing Matilda, then the Australian National anthem and then – in moving momentum as King Charles III stood for the first time as monarch in the Parliament House forecourt – God Save the King.

Father and son James and Jordan Steed from Townsville couldn’t believe their luck.

‘I can’t believe it, wow! What a thrill! It’s a front row seat to history,’ said Jordan, 16.

Jordan and James, an army veteran, had just happened to drop in to Parliament House on day one of their two week road trip to Sydney, Brisbane and Canberra.

‘What an honour,’ James said.

The popular host questioned on his KIIS FM radio show on Monday why the royal couple were being driven around in a mid-sized car.

‘Can I ask why are the King and Queen are being driven around Australia in an Audi hatchback? Like what the hell is going on there,’ he said.

‘The King is usually in this custom made Bentley and we’ve squeezed him in an Audi hatchback.’

His co-host Jackie O Henderson then said: ‘I have the answer. It says Charles prefers Audi due to their commitment to safety and reliability.’

An alpaca, named Hephner, was among the hundreds of fans waiting to meet the royals during their visit to Canberra on Monday, and even got to meet King Charles.

Hephner was dressed up for the formal occasion and wore a gold crown, blue velvet suit and bow tie.

The King was seen giving Hephner a little scratch before the animal hilariously sneezed on him.

Robert Fletcher, who owns the animal, insisted Hephner is a monarchist deep at heart.

‘We just thought, what an opportunity to dress him up as royalty and bring him today,’ he said.

A 62-year-old man was arrested outside the Australian War Memorial on Monday for allegedly failing to comply with a police direction.

The man was a member of a small group of demonstrators who gathered to protest the arrival of the Royals.

He is expected to be charged later.

About two dozen protesters gathered and were heard chanting ‘always was, always will be Aboriginal land’ and the ‘The King is a murderous pig’.

The group also carried signs reading ‘Decolonise’ and ‘No King, No Empire, No AUKUS’ referencing Australia’s defence deal with the UK.

Senator Lidia Thorpe was embroiled in a bizarre altercation with a police officer amid a protest against the arrival of the King and Queen.

A small group of protesters outside the Australian War Memorial in Canberra were told to move on by police.

Ms Thorpe, who is understood to have been part of the protest, was seen arguing with a police officer who held onto her shirt.

Ms Thorpe then pulled her shirt off and stormed away from the officer.

‘Everything that we suffer in this country is because of that colonial invasion,’ she said after the tussle.

Ms Thorpe has been vocal about her feelings towards the monarchy, and last year co-signed a letter urging King Charles to apologise for the effect of colonisation.

She along with representatives from 11 other countries signed the letter ahead of Charles’ Coronation.

King Charles and Queen Camilla arrived to loud fanfare in Canberra on Monday – however it was a kiss offered to His Majesty that stood out.

The King went to greet Ngunnawal Elder Serena Williams when she offered European-style kisses on both cheeks.

Ardent royalist Joshua Ladhams, 16, of Brisbane travelled down especially to see the King and Queen, and bought blue flowers particularly for Camilla.

‘Well they’re purple really but hopefully she’ll see them and come over,’ the schoolboy said as he hung over the barrier in the Parliament House forecourt.

Joshua said he believed Charles and Camilla had done ‘a lot for the royal family and they’ve stood the test of time’.

Lynton Martin, from Melbourne, has travelled far and wide to get a glimpse of the King.

Mr Martin was lucky enough to meet King Charles on Sunday during his visit to a church in North Sydney, and is hoping he’ll get another chance to chat with the monarch in Canberra on Monday.

‘Hopefully I get to see him again,’ he told the ABC.

‘It’s a great opportunity to welcome the King to Australia and make sure he feels very much at home.’

Mr Martin isn’t hard to spot, donning a Union Jack-themed suit with a matching bow-tie and crown.

He made the journey up from Melbourne to Sydney for the visit and made sure to stop by the nation’s capital on his way home.

Mr Martin also travelled to the UK for the King’s Coronation last year, and credits his love for the royals to his grandmother who was ‘very fond’ of the Queen.

Thousands of Aussies have turned out to catch a glimpse of the King and Queen during their royal visit to Canberra on Monday.

One man even bizarrely brought his pet llama, dressed in a tuxedo and gold crown, with him for the royal occasion.

A heavy police presence was also seen at Parliament House early on Monday.

Excitement is building at the Parliament House forecourt where soldiers from the Australian Army are setting up cannons to fire for the official welcome of King Charles and Queen Camilla.

Six cannons have been towed in by truck and are being set up on Parliament’s front lawn.

As the queue of excited onlookers snaked down the road, one family had made an extra effort to greet the King and Queen.

Claire Liistro and her three children drove overnight from Victoria’s Yarra Valley, bringing crowns bought from Big W.

Ms Liistro said she believed Charles and Camilla ‘have stepped up to their roles’.

‘I’d have queued for a week if it had been the Queen (Elizabeth) but yeah, Charlie is doing okay,’ she said.

‘I just love everything royal.’

Asked what he would say to the royal couple if they approached him, Ms Liistro’s son Dillon said he would ask for the ‘real crown jewels’ and tell the King to ‘avoid the crocs’.

Ms Liistro said her family had even made a massive cardboard cut-out of the King to put next to the TV while watching the Coronation.

Pictured is Claire Liistro with her children Dillon, Sienna and Aidan. Dillon holds a photo of his grandfather Michael, who did not make the trip, saying ‘g’day’ to the King.

King Charles was spotted leaving Admiralty House at Kirribilli, on Sydney’s lower north shore, on Monday morning.

The monarch waved to passersby from the back of the vehicle while Queen Camilla sat in the front.

King Charles was wearing a blue suit and appeared to be in high spirits.

King Charles III spent only 10 minutes at a lunch held in his honour on Sunday before leaving.

He delivered a speech at NSW’s Parliament House where he gifted an hourglass.

His Majesty only briefly stayed at the lunch that was held aftewards.

The menu comprised of chargrilled asparagus and olive dust, marinated octopus and squid ink wafer, barramundi and duck confit.

King Charles is currently being treated for cancer – which has led to the scaling down of his itinerary while he is visiting Australia.

The 75-year-old has previously visited the country 16 times – and will only be travelling around NSW and Canberra during his visit.

King Charles was given a very Australian gift while visiting St Thomas’ Anglican Church in North Sydney on Sunday morning.

Bondi Smokehouse owner Christian Gilles was among the hundreds of fans who had turned up to greet His Majesty and Queen Camilla.

Mr Gilles offered King Charles a packet of kangaroo jerky – a gift the monarch happily accepted.

Footage captured the heartwarming interaction.

‘That’s for you and your wife,’ Mr Gilles told the King.

‘Oh kangaroo, that’s very nice,’ King Charles replied.

Greens deputy leader Mehreen Faruqi vowed to snub King Charles and Queen Camilla saying she would sit out of the parliamentary reception on Monday.

‘The monarchy symbolises an era that should be left behind for good, not celebrated,’ she said.

‘It will come as no surprise that I will not be participating in any pomp and ceremony celebrating the monarchy, but I’d be happy to go to the airport to wish them a final goodbye in the hope that this is the last time the crown visits this country as rulers.

‘Preserving the British monarchy is to preserve white supremacy and the systemic racist structures that were built by the Empire and persist today.’

Ms Faruqi is among several Australians unhappy with the visit from the royal couple.

Local republicans argue it is time to farewell the monarchy, and Indigenous rights groups lament it as a reminder of Australia’s dark colonial past.

Placard-brandishing protesters gathered and royalists faced off near St Thomas’ Church in North Sydney ahead of the service attended by the King and Queen on Sunday.

Pro-Palestine protesters and Indigenous rights activists unfurled Banners reading ‘decolonise’ and ’empire built on genocide’.

There were also chants of ‘Always Was, Always Will be, Aboriginal Land’.

In response to a request to meet from the Australian Republican Movement earlier this year, the King said the decision to become a republic rested with the Australian people.

It has been 25 years since Australia last held a vote on becoming a republic.

King Charles and Queen Camilla will be greeting crowds from 12.35pm at Canberra’s Australian War Memorial.

Those wishing to see Their Majesties are urged to arrive no later than 11.45am for security screening and to avoid road closures.

Visitors will have another chance to see the King and Queen later at Parliament House.

Royal fans should arrive no later than 12.10pm.

A small group of anti-monarchy protesters had gathered outside the St Thomas’ Anglican Church in North Sydney on Sunday morning for the Royal visit.

They gathered under a large ‘decolonise’ banner around 100 metres away but they failed to spoil the joyful mood.

The protesters used a megaphone to shout their support for indigenous rights and waved Palestinian and Lebanon flags.

A handful of locals shouted ‘get lost’ and ‘get a life’ in frustration as they walked past, while one man told them: ‘Be thankful you live in a free society where you can argue across the street.’

Fans waiting inside the church grounds to shake hands with the King and Queen described the ongoing republican debate as a ‘bore’.

After the King and Queen arrived, the protestors were drowned out by shouts of ‘hip hip hooray’ and blocked from sight by hundreds of camera phones held aloft.

The King and Queen were warmly welcomed in Sydney on their visit to St Thomas’ Anglican Church on Sunday.

Handed armfuls of flowers, toy koalas and even some kangaroo jerky, the couple were repeatedly thanked for making the long journey over, particularly in light of His Majesty’s on-going cancer treatment.

Fans waiting inside the church grounds – including dozens of Sunday school children – were thrilled to shake hands with the King and Queen, while others described the ongoing republican debate as a ‘bore’.

Afterwards one child delightedly shouted ‘I touched the King!’. ‘It was so good, he was so kind,’ said another little girl.

Stepping outside the church to loud cheers from the hundreds gathered on the lawn opposite the church, the King waved before walking over to speak to members of the public.

Some well-wishers said they had begun queuing at 5am to get a prime spot to see the couple, with others in the crowd flying in from other parts of Australia especially.

King Charles and Queen Camilla will spend just one day in the nation’s capital on Monday where they are expected to be greeted by thousands of fans.

During their time in Canberra, the Royals will visit the Australian War Memorial where they will lay a wreath at the tomb of the Unknown Soldier where The Last Post will be played before a minute of silence.

The pair will separate to attend different events but will both take a stroll through the National Botanic Gardens later on Monday afternoon.

King Charles is expected to give a speech at 1pm before he will be able to meet those who gathered to see the Royal visit.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will also hold a reception for Charles and Camilla inside the Great Hall at Parliament House.

Charles will visit the CSIRO National Bushfire Research Centre to meet with firefighters and scientists.

The Queen will meanwhile partake in a roundtable on the issue of domestic violence.

Charles and Camilla have official engagements in Sydney on Tuesday before returning to the UK.