King Charles and Queen Camilla will visit Canberra and Sydney next month, with Buckingham Palace revealing new details about their first trip to Australia since ascending the throne. Royal commentator and Editor-at-Large at the Australian Women's Weekly, Juliet Rieden, describes it as a historic occasion.
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00:00It's the first visit for the King as monarch.
00:06Also the first realm he has visited as monarch.
00:09So that's history making.
00:11But of course the King knows Australia well.
00:13This is his 17th visit.
00:15He's very connected with Australia.
00:16He has his own charity here, the King's Trust Australia.
00:20And for Queen Camilla, it's her fourth visit.
00:23So it's going to be, you know, connecting with old friends, of course.
00:28He's been itching to come back to Australia.
00:31Lots of things have got in the way.
00:32There was COVID, of course, his mother's death and his own coronation.
00:38And then of course we have that health diagnosis from the King.
00:41He is still going through cancer treatment.
00:45This particular trip has had to be scaled back quite significantly.
00:48You know, we just see those two states touched there, two cities, Canberra and Sydney.
00:55I'm sure he would have liked to have visited far more widely.