It takes more than an angry Aussie heckler to ruffle King Charles’s feathers…
When the Aboriginal-Australian senator for Victoria shouted “You are not my King”, interrupting a state ceremony for Charles and Camilla in Canberra, it took everyone by surprise. King Charles – on his first longhaul royal tour since revealing his cancer diagnosis earlier this year – has always known that he would become something of a target. The late Queen made her last longhaul state visit in 2010, to Oman, a full 12 years before her death, which helped keep a lid on any republican sentiments bubbling away in Commonwealth countries and the farthest-flung former colonies. When the then Prince Charles was sent to Barbados in 2021, at the time of its independence, the Foreign Office had him emphasise the friendship between the island and the United Kingdom, then included in his speech the words: “From the darkest days of our past, and the appalling atrocity of slavery, which forever stains our history, the people of this island forged their path with extraordinary fortitude.” After that, the question of reparations in Caribbean islands has been to the fore.
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