02:29UK's King Charles III and Queen Camilla were welcomed in Sydney on Tuesday, a day after arriving in Australia for their first royal tour of the country since his cancer diagnosis earlier this year.
Footage outside the Sydney Opera House shows the King and Queen being greeted by hundreds of supporters as helicopters carrying Australian flags were seen flying over the performing arts centre. A local man was also seen shouting from across the venue and was subsequently detained by police officers.
King Charles is expected to address a reception for community and political leaders, while the pair will visit the Australian War Memorial and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Memorial.
On Monday, the King was heckled by Aboriginal Senator Lidia Thorpe on his visit to the Australian Parliament. "This is not your land. You are not my king!" she told him as she was led away by security. Thorpe is the first Indigenous senator for Victoria and a vocal campaigner for Aboriginal rights.
This trip is the King's biggest visit since starting his cancer treatment in February. Charles himself has made 16 visits to Australia but this trip is the first by a reigning monarch since 2011. Following the visit, Charles and Camilla will travel to Samoa for the 56 Commonwealth nations biennial Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting.
Royal welcome! Hundreds greet UK's King and Queen in Sydney for first tour since Charles' cancer diagnosis
UK's King Charles III and Queen Camilla were welcomed in Sydney on Tuesday, a day after arriving in Australia for their first royal tour of the country since his cancer diagnosis earlier this year.
Footage outside the Sydney Opera House shows the King and Queen being greeted by hundreds of supporters as helicopters carrying Australian flags were seen flying over the performing arts centre. A local man was also seen shouting from across the venue and was subsequently detained by police officers.
King Charles is expected to address a reception for community and political leaders, while the pair will visit the Australian War Memorial and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Memorial.
On Monday, the King was heckled by Aboriginal Senator Lidia Thorpe on his visit to the Australian Parliament. "This is not your land. You are not my king!" she told him as she was led away by security. Thorpe is the first Indigenous senator for Victoria and a vocal campaigner for Aboriginal rights.
This trip is the King's biggest visit since starting his cancer treatment in February. Charles himself has made 16 visits to Australia but this trip is the first by a reigning monarch since 2011. Following the visit, Charles and Camilla will travel to Samoa for the 56 Commonwealth nations biennial Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting.
UK's King Charles III and Queen Camilla were welcomed in Sydney on Tuesday, a day after arriving in Australia for their first royal tour of the country since his cancer diagnosis earlier this year.
Footage outside the Sydney Opera House shows the King and Queen being greeted by hundreds of supporters as helicopters carrying Australian flags were seen flying over the performing arts centre. A local man was also seen shouting from across the venue and was subsequently detained by police officers.
King Charles is expected to address a reception for community and political leaders, while the pair will visit the Australian War Memorial and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Memorial.
On Monday, the King was heckled by Aboriginal Senator Lidia Thorpe on his visit to the Australian Parliament. "This is not your land. You are not my king!" she told him as she was led away by security. Thorpe is the first Indigenous senator for Victoria and a vocal campaigner for Aboriginal rights.
This trip is the King's biggest visit since starting his cancer treatment in February. Charles himself has made 16 visits to Australia but this trip is the first by a reigning monarch since 2011. Following the visit, Charles and Camilla will travel to Samoa for the 56 Commonwealth nations biennial Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting.