King Charles told ‘give us our land back’ by senator after speech in Australian parliament – royal family news

The King and Queen after continuing their tour of Australia after they were confronted by an Indigenous MP during their parliamentary adress.

It is understood the King was unruffled and did not let the outburst overshadow what the royal party viewed as a wonderful day in the Australian capital, which had seen them greet hundreds of well-wishers at the national war memorial – including a sneezing alpaca.

Earlier, hundreds of people had gathered outside Australia’s parliament house for a chance to meet the royal couple.

In his speech to the Australian parliament on Monday, Charles spoke affectionately about his relationship with Australia, a country he first visited as a teenager, saying he arrived as an “adolescent” and left more “chiselled” after his experience studying in the Outback.

He also highlighted the debt he owed to Australia’s Indigenous people.

Charles stated: “In my many visits to Australia, I have witnessed the courage and hope that have guided the nation’s long and sometimes difficult journey towards reconciliation.

“Throughout my life, Australia’s First Nations peoples have done me the great honour of sharing, so generously, their stories and cultures. I can only say how much my own experience has been shaped and strengthened by such traditional wisdom.”

During his parliamentary address on Monday, Australian senator Lidia Thorpe confronted King Charles, telling him  “You are not my King”.

She is an Indigenous independent politician and became the first Aboriginal senator for the state of Victoria in 2020.

Born into family of prominent Aboriginal activists, Thorpe regularly speaks out about the monarchy’s impact on Indigenous people.

She was sworn into parliament wearing a traditional possum-skin cloak in 2020, carrying an Aboriginal message stick with 441 marks, representing each Indigenous person who had died at the time since the 1991 royal commission into deaths in custody.

In 2022, she was forced to re-do her oath into parliament after she referred to the late Queen Elizabeth as “the colonising Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II”.

William, 42, made the revelation while attending a game hosted by the NFL Foundation UK in London on Tuesday, where he was gifted a football for Prince George, 11, Princess Charlotte, nine, and Prince Louis, six.

Expressing his appreciation for the reward on the Kennington Park hockey pitch, he stated: “Oh, that’s very kind. Never go home empty handed! That’s a crucial motto of being a parent.

The senator who confronted King Charles has said she wanted to send a “clear message” to the King throughout his go to on Monday.

Lidia Thorpe shouted at the King after he finished his speech during his reception in Australia’s parliament. She told the BBC afterwards: “To be sovereign you have to be of the land. He is not of this land.”

She added that the King needed to instruct Parliament to discuss a peace treaty

She said the King needed to instruct the Parliament to discuss a peace treaty with the first peoples.

“We can lead that, we can do that, we can be a better country – but we cannot bow to the coloniser, whose ancestors he spoke about in there are responsible for mass murder and mass genocide,” she told the broadcaster.

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 elevating 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.

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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The Princess Royal attended a performance in London by the world’s oldest riding academy.

Eight riders and up to 26 horses from the Spanish Riding School carried out perfectly synchronised routines set to classical Viennese music on Friday evening.

The Vienna-based academy has been practising classical horsemanship for more than 450 years, and performed tonight to a horse-enthusiast and former Olympic rider in Princess Anne.

She joined model Lady Victoria Hervey, influencer Chuggs Wallis and thousands of fans to view the spectacle at the OVO Arena Wembley.

Radio and TV presenter Nicki Chapman, who hosted the present, stated: “Hosting the opening night of the prestigious Spanish Riding School tour, with The Princess Royal in attendance, was an absolute honour.

“It’s been eight years since the Lipizzaner horses and their incredibly talented riders last visited the UK, and sharing the magic with both the Princess Royal and the British public made the evening all the more unforgettable.”

As part of the palace’s reservicing programme, work is taking place in the basement, replacing old electrical cabling with brand new cables under the floors and throughout the historic building.

In a new video, released by the royal family this month, workers can be seen pulling some of the 25,000 metres of cable through the basement.

The vast amount is equivalent to the weight of 12 elephants and runs the length of 250 football pitches.

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

In a publish on X, they stated: “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.”