King Charles and Queen Camilla have been spotted sunbaking on Sydney Harbour after their long-awaited royal tour to Australia got off to a rainy start.
The royal couple flew into Sydney on Friday night for their first tour down under since 2018 and Charles’ first as king.
After spending Sunday morning attending a church service in Sydney’s north and then visiting NSW Parliament House, the King and Queen were back at Admiralty House by the afternoon for a quick sunbaking session in full view of anyone on Sydney Harbour.
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Admiralty House is the residence royals use when visiting Sydney, offering sweeping views of the city’s harbour and manicured gardens to relax in.
It was there that the royal couple were seen embracing the sunny weather, just steps from where the popular Manly Ferry cruises past.
The footage, obtained by 7NEWS, showed Charles and Camilla wandering around in the Sydney sunshine in their swimming costumes while a member of their royal staff moves a chair out of their way.
After a cold and rainy start to their tour, and even worse weather ahead when they return home to the United Kingdom, it was no surprise the royals were keen to get outside and enjoy the sunshine.
Admiralty House, just steps from the prime minister’s official Sydney residence of Kirribilli House, also offers uninterrupted views of the Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge. It is the Governor-General’s official Sydney residence.
The King and his wife Queen Camilla finished up their third full day of their short tour of Australia after leaving Sydney to spend the day in Canberra.
Earlier, hundreds of well-wishers and an alpaca gathered to catch a glimpse of the royal couple at the Australian War Memorial in the nation’s capital.
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Loud cheers and renditions of God Save the King from several hundred onlookers greeted the royals as they moved into view along Anzac Pde.
The pair privately paid their respects at the memorial’s commemorative area, laying a wreath and floral tribute before moving to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander memorial, For Our Country.
King Charles, sporting a navy suit and a bevvy of military medals, and Queen Camilla, in her white silk dress, spent more than 30 minutes shaking hands and chatting with the gathered onlookers — some wearing commemorative crowns, others offering bouquets of flowers.
The royals will return to Sydney on Tuesday where they will meet more members of the public and attend a naval fleet review on the Admiral Hudson vessel.
Following the five-day tour of Australia, they will travel to Samoa where the King will open the annual Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting.
Monday has been the most eventful day for the royals when Senator Lidia Thorpe was escorted from Parliament House’s Great Hall after unleashing a verbal tirade directed at King Charles during His Majesty’s visit to Canberra.
The King had just finished his speech and was returning to his seat after shaking hands with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese when Thorpe began yelling from the back of the room.
“You committed genocide against our people. Give us our land back. Give us what you stole from us, our bones, our skulls, our babies, our people, you destroyed our land,” Thorpe said during her outburst on Monday.
“We want a treaty in this country.
“This is not your land. You are not my King, you are not our King.
“F*** the colony.”
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Security surrounded Thorpe, who was then escorted from the hall where a reception for political and community leaders, and Australians who have excelled in the fields of health, arts, culture and sport was being held.
The King continued to chat with Albanese during the disruption, which lasted about one minute.
It came on the same day Thorpe narrowly avoided arrest after an exchange with a police officer outside the Australian War Memorial.