Royal news live: Indigenous protestor arrested by police after attempting to confront King Charles in Sydney

The Royal Family has posted footage of King Charles visiting Australia as a young man.

In a post on X, they said: “In 1966, when he was seventeen, The King spent two terms at Timbertop in the mountains of south-eastern Australia.

“The co-educational campus of Geelong Grammar School is located near Mansfield in Victoria, and combines normal schooling with outdoor activities, such as hiking, trail running, cross-country skiing and camping, to foster independence and initiative.”

King Charles and Queen Camilla have now returned to Sydney to continue their royal tour of Australia, following an intense day in Canberra.

The couple will spend their final day of their visit touring the Sydney Opera House and partaking in a review of the Royal Australian Navy fleet before heading off to Samoa.

Aunty Violet Sheridan, a senior Ngunnawal Elder who formally welcomed Charles and Camilla to her ancestral lands when they entered Parliament House, said the senator did not speak for her.

She said: “We are all so disappointed by it. To have that in the Great Hall – disgusting. I am so upset about her. He has waited so long to be king, he has rehearsed for it all his life.

“He is our king, our sovereign and he has got cancer.”

King Charles‘s landmark address to Australia’s Parliament House on Monday was disrupted by a protesting Indigenous senator shouting “you are not my king” and accusing him of “committ[ing] genocide against our people”.

The King and Queen Camilla are on a five-day tour of Australia and Charles addressed the Great Hall of Parliament House on Monday in one of the most important engagements of his first visit to the country as monarch.

As he finished his speech, senator Lidia Thorpe approached the stage and shouted for around 30 seconds, saying “this is not your country”.

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In a statement released ahead of King Charles’s arrival on Friday, Lidia Thorpe described the British monarch as “not the legitimate sovereign of these lands” and said the monarchy had “committed a genocide of our people”.

“There’s unfinished business that we need to resolve before this country can become a republic. This must happen through Treaty,” Thorpe said.

“We can move towards a Treaty Republic now. The two processes are not opposed, they’re complimentary.”

Charles and Camilla were earlier welcomed at Canberra airport with a traditional smoking ceremony where guests wafted burning eucalyptus over themselves, chosen for its health benefits in light of the King’s ongoing cancer treatment.

The royal couple commemorated Australia’s war dead at the national memorial, laying floral tributes as hundreds of well-wishers turned out to see the couple – including an alpaca who sneezed in front of the King.

This is the moment senator Lidia Thorpe heckles King Charles during a reception in Australia’s parliament.

The monarch had just finished addressing lawmakers in Canberra on Monday when Ms Thorpe shouted “This is not your land. You are not my King.”

She continued raising her voice in protest, saying “Give us our land back. Give us what you stole from us! Our bones, our skulls, our babies, our people.

“You destroyed our land. Give us a treaty!”

Security stopped Ms Thorpe from getting close and ushered her out of the chamber as the King turned to talk to prime minister Anthony Albanese.

Charles and Camilla have visitied the Australian War Memorial as they continue their second official day of their tour of Australia.

The couple had a moment of reflection at the ‘For our Country’ Memorial to “acknowledge the deep connection that First Nation Australians have with their land and the role they continue to play in defending it”.

They paid their respects hours after they were confronted by an Indigenous Australian senator who accused Charles of being a “genocidalist” and asked for a treaty between Australia‘s First Nations and its government.

Australia’s prime minister has hailed the “warm welcome” King Charles has received on his visit to Australia, hours after he was confronted in parliament by a senator saying he was “not my King”.

Anthony Albanese shared photos of Charles and Camilla’s visit so far to social media and said: “A warm welcome to King Charles today from school students, members of our Defence Force, and distinguished Australians from across our nation in his first visit as sovereign.”

Mr Albanese has a long-term aim of steering Australia towards a becoming a republic but the plans are on hold after Australians overwhelmingly rejected a plan to give greater political rights to indigenous people in a referendum held last year.