King Charles and Queen Camilla to visit Australia in October

There has been much speculation about when the British monarch and his wife will tour Down Under.

A date has apparently been set on when King Charles and Queen Camilla will visit Australia.

There has been much speculation about if and when the British monarch will visit Australia.

Now royal commentator Chris Ship believes the monarchs could combine a trip Down Under with their visit to the Pacific for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) on October 21, 2024.

“We know King is due at Commonwealth Summit in Samoa in October ‘24 so it’s a reasonable bet to predict he’ll travel to Oz around then,” he said on Twitter.

Charles and Camilla are headed Down Under. Picture: AFP

While the Queen visited Australia many times, King Charles will be the first king to do so.

Charles and Camilla last toured Australia in April 2018.

The seven-day tour took in Queensland and the Northern Territory. That visit marked the then Prince of Wales’s 16th visit to Australia, and the then Duchess of Cornwall’s third.

The Australian Monarchist League said it was “delighted” by the news and urged governments not to downplay the visit.

Charles and Camilla posing with the official mascot Borobi during a tour of the Commonwealth Games Athletes’s Village on April 5, 2018 on the Gold Coast, Australia. Picture: Getty Images

Camilla at Kurrawa Surf Club, Broadbeach, Queensland, in 2018 for a meet and greet. Picture: Glenn Hampson

“This will be the first visit of King Charles as sovereign and we trust that the Australian and State governments will not restrict people being able to come out and welcome their new King as they did 70 years ago for the then new Queen, Elizabeth II,” the league said in a statement.

It added: “The visit will also be His Majesty’s first time, as King and head of the Commonwealth, at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM)”.

Queen Elizabeth II during a tour of Australia in 1954.

The Queen’s father King George VI did visit in 1926, but when he was the Duke of York.

And her uncle, Edward VIII, visited Australia in 1920 when he was the Prince of Wales.

Her grandfather toured the country in 1901 when he was the Heir to the Throne, after his father had to cancel following the death of Queen Victoria.

Queen Elizabeth II first visited Australia as Queen in 1954.

Originally published as King Charles and Queen Camilla to visit Australia in October