Lidia Thorpe blasts King Charles calling him a ‘violent invader’

Lidia Thorpe has taken aim at King Charles in a wide-ranging interview in which she called for reparations from the monarchy.

Controversial indigenous politician Lidia Thorpe has lashed out at King Charles labelling him a “violent invader”.

In an interview with The Project’s Hamish McDonald, the forthright senator revealed she had received death threats over her push for the Blak Soverign Movement and rejection of the Voice.

“Politics are hard. Blak politics are harder and rougher. I do come out with what’s on my mind and it doesn’t always come out right. It doesn’t always come out nice,” she said.

The former Greens senator said a treaty was more important than the Voice.

“We want power in this country. We want land back. We want peace. We want the end of the war that was declared on us,” she said.

Senator Lidia Thorpe says she does not recognise King Charles. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

“We don’t want to continue to talk about high rates of deaths of our people and incarceration of our people. We’re still locking up ten-year-olds in this country.”

She said she did not recognise King Charles as sovereign of Australia, despite him being head of state.

“I recognise him as an invader. A violent invader. Yes, he wasn’t personally responsible, but he’s certainly relishes in the wealth that has been created on the backs of slavery,” she said.

She said she wanted reparations from the monarchy.

“His coronation saw millions of dollars put into crowns and jewels that are all stolen from an Indigenous community somewhere in the world. So, start giving it back.”

Senator Thorpe also revealed what she told fellow senator Pauline Hanson after she had made an emotional address to parliament over sexual assault allegations against Senator David Van, when Senator Hanson accused her of crocodile tears.

When interviewer Hamish McDonald asked Senator Thorpe what she said to Senator Hanson on that day, Senator Thorpe replied: “Am I allowed to say that on telly?

“I told her to f*** off because she was being outright rude and nasty and she was baiting me the whole time I was doing my speech,” Senator Thorpe said.

“The only comeback with how she responded to me, was to f*** off, Pauline.”

Senator Van, who was expelled from the Liberal party room and has since quit the party, has denied Senator Thorpe’s accusation.

HOW CAMILLA THRIVED DESPITE TORMENT

Queen Camilla’s former daughter-in-law has opened up about “the hate years” that the wife of King Charles suffered through as she struggled to be accepted by the public.

Fashion editor Sara Parker Bowles told The Times how when she and Camilla’s son Tom got together in 1998, Camilla was having a hard time due to being vilified as an adulteress.

Sara Parker Bowles on her wedding day with former husband Tom, the son of Queen Camilla. Picture: Getty Images

“(Camilla) wasn’t accepted at all. She didn’t talk about it. She was just very brave and uncomplaining,” Ms Parker Bowles, who married former husband Tom in 2005, said of the period she dubbed “the hate years”.

“Tom was worried it would happen all over again when the Queen died, but it has been the opposite,” she said.

Camilla and the then Prince Charles married in April 2005 after a decades-long relationship that continued throughout the years despite both their marriages.

The then Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles arrive for a party at Windsor Castle in February 2005 after announcing their engagement AFP

The public’s reaction when they finally made their relationship official was mixed, with many royal fans still angry over the pair’s affair during the King’s marriage to the late Princess Diana.

Royal author Penny Junor has previously claimed that Camilla’s pre-wedding nerves due to her worries about the public’s reaction left her “paralysed with fear”.

Ms Junor said Camilla was so tormented “she literally couldn’t get out of bed” on the morning of her wedding day.

Queen Camilla suffered terrible nerves before her wedding day in April 2005, it has been claimed. Picture: Getty Images

Over time, the public has grown to accept the hardworking royal and her popularity has soared since the dark days in the aftermath of the death of Princess Diana in 1997.

Queen Camilla and her former daughter-in-law have stayed close despite Sara and Tom divorcing in 2018.

Ms Parker Bowles and her children, Lola and Freddy, attended the coronation in May, with her son serving as one of Camilla’s Pages of Honour.

The public has grown to accept the hardworking royal, pictured last week at the Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden in Cornwall. Picture: AFP

Freddy Parker Bowles, on right, with Prince George at the coronation. Picture: AFP

The former Vogue fashion editor, who now revamps women’s wardrobes, said the moment was surreal and she spent the day “obsessively” watching her son at Westminster Abbey as the eyes of the world were upon him.

Queen Camilla was extremely nervous ahead of her husband’s coronation, Ms Parker Bowles said.

“Camilla was really, really nervous. She wanted the people that she loved around her. (The King) wasn’t nervous at all,” Ms Parker Bowles told The Times.

“But Camilla didn’t ask for any of this. She’s the human face of the royal family because she’s not part of it. You need those outsiders really.”

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