King Charles and Queen Camilla to visit Sydney, Canberra on Australian tour
King Charles and Queen Camilla are set to make their first official visit to Australia in six years within weeks, the palace has confirmed.
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King Charles and Queen Camilla are headed to Sydney for their first official visit as monarchs in just three months.
As revealed by The Saturday Telegraph, the King and Queen will visit both NSW and Canberra in a whirlwind tour down under, an official announcement from Buckingham Palace confirmed on Monday.
The monarchs will also visit Samoa to “celebrate the strong bilateral relationship with the Pacific Island Nation and the UK”, attending the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting with 56 other national leaders from across Asia, the Pacific, Caribbean and Africa.
As reported on Saturday, the trip is a scaled-back version of what the royals had planned due to the King’s ongoing cancer treatment, with all other Australian states and territories as well as New Zealand missing out on a spot on the itinerary.
England’s Daily Mirror newspaper reported in June that palace officials were planning a six-day stop in Australia for the King before he attended the CHOGM meeting in Samoa, which starts on October 21.
More details on the royal visit are expected to be announced in the coming weeks, though it is expected the King will not attend full-day events due to his health.
But visits to the newly-renovated NSW Parliament House, the Opera House and a formal reception in Canberra with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese could be on the cards, as well as a trip to Sydney’s Everest on October 19.
It will be the King’s sixteenth visit to Australia but his first since becoming our head of state after the death of Queen Elizabeth II in 2022, as well as the first long-haul overseas trip he has made since being diagnosed with cancer in February.
He and Queen Camilla last toured Australia in 2018 to open the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games, while the last major working royal to visit our shores was Princess Anne in 2022.
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