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Camilla Parker Bowles

October 2024

No shade! King Charles and Queen Camilla at the Opera House on Tuesday.

The real star of King Charles’ Australian tour? Those sunglasses

Known as an advocate for sustainable fashion, King Charles caused a style stir yesterday in Sydney with his on-trend specs.

  • Lauren Sams
Lidia Thorpe heckled King Charles at Parliament House.

Thorpe set to avoid censure over King Charles protest

King Charles and Queen Camilla delighted an estimated 10,000 supporters at the Sydney Opera House on Tuesday, a day after a controversial protest at parliament.

  • Tom McIlroy
King Charles and Queen Camilla will make their first visit to Australia as King and Queen this month.

Australia clings to British embrace with King Charles’ royal visit

A particular type of rhetorical syrup that “oozes over cracks” in the Australia-Britain relationship will be on full display.

  • James Curran
King Charles and Queen Camilla were welcomed by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his partner Jodie Haydon.

King Charles and Queen Camilla prepare for official engagements

The King, who has been receiving treatment for cancer, is the first reigning monarch in more than a decade to visit Australia.

  • Luke Costin and Aaron Bunch
Charles and Lady Dale “Kanga” Tryon

Royal tour revives Australian ties for King Charles

The King and Queen will spend five days in Australia, a country where the young Charles spent part of his formative years.

  • Tom McIlroy
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King Charles III and Queen Camilla arrive on Friday

Republic movement seeks major reset from royal visit

Younger voters and multicultural communities are key to Australia becoming a republic, campaigners say, ahead of a tour by King Charles and Queen Camilla next week.

  • Tom McIlroy
King Charles III will make his first visit to Australia as its crowned head of state.

The King & me! Power players jockey for royal attention

Racing NSW boss Peter V’landys is manifesting a Randwick visit from the King this weekend.

  • Mark Di Stefano

September 2024

King Charles III and Queen Camilla will visit Sydney and Canberra in October.

King Charles to spotlight climate change during Australian visit

King Charles, who has undergone cancer treatment, and Queen Camilla will visit Sydney and Canberra in October.

  • Andrew Tillett

July 2024

The King with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

King Charles, Queen Camilla to visit Australia in October

The royal couple will make the trip en route to a CHOGM summit in Samoa, but the King’s fragile health means it’ll be shorter than the epic visits of years gone by.

  • Hans van Leeuwen

May 2024

Madeline King says

King could learn from BHP

Readers’ letters on Resources Minister Madeleine King; extending the life of the Eraring power station; Peter Dutton’s response to the International Criminal Court’s pursuit of Benjamin Netanyahu; and fulltime work for the royal family in Australia.

February 2024

King Charles has been diagnosed with cancer, but the palace is not saying which kind.

Harry to visit King after cancer diagnosis

The King will receive “regular treatment” and suspend his public engagements after he was diagnosed with cancer, the Palace said in a brief statement.

  • Hans van Leeuwen

May 2023

Prince William speaks during the concert at Windsor Castle in Windsor.

Coronation pomp gives way to a royal concert for all

Charles and Camilla and other senior royals joined an audience of 20,000 members of the public and invited guests for the ‘Coronation Concert’ at Windsor Castle.

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  • Michael Holden and Alistair Smout
The Princess of Wales.

The best pictures from the coronation of King Charles

King Charles was crowned on a grey, rainy day as Britain entered a new royal era. These were some of the striking images from the day.

King Charles knows well that he reigns only by consent

The monarchy will seek to be useful, efficient and respected – and to subtly make its case in Australia

  • Simon Heffer
A souvenir collectible plate marking the Coronation of King Charles III ready for the May 6 coronation.

Anointing, golden coaches: What to expect at Charles’ coronation

The coronation is an attempt to strike a balance: traditional but not fusty, contemporary but not controversial. What will happen, and will it hit the right notes?

  • Hans van Leeuwen
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Charles and Camilla in 2005, the year they got married, 34 years after they first met.

Despite everything, Charles and Camilla’s is a great love story

They’ve known each other for half a century, and they still adore and support each other in everything they do.

  • Allison Pearson
Rehearsals for the coronation procession at an RAF base in Hampshire.

In eerily empty London, coronation spin is in full swing

The drumbeat of media announcements has stepped up, as the Royal Family tries to get Britons excited for the coronation this weekend.

  • Hans van Leeuwen

January 2023

Sibling rivalry is a tale as old as time

For every Old Testament Cain that murders Abel, there is a Jacob who outwits a slow-witted, elder brother Esau to win his father’s inheritance.

  • Martin Ivens

September 2022

Queen Elizabeth II photographed in May 2022 at Windsor Castle.

What we learnt during 10 days of royal mourning

We saw more of the secret sides of the Queen, we gleaned the royal family’s survival strategy, and we were deceived by slogans such as “united in grief”.

  • Hans van Leeuwen
Queen Camilla – as she now is – must take much of the credit for the King’s rehabilitation in public esteem.

Why King Charles will succeed with Queen Camilla by his side

The new monarch’s critics are likely to stay silenced because when he married his wife he also acquired a business partner and brand manager for the firm.

  • Simon Heffer

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