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Charles III in Australia for his first long trip since the announcement of his cancer

King Charles III arrived in Australia on Friday evening for a six-day tour, his most physically demanding trip since the announcement of his cancer in February, and during which he is expected to address environmental issues, which are close to his heart. After a journey of more than 20 hours, the 75-year-old monarch and his wife Queen Camilla landed in rain-soaked Sydney and were greeted by local dignitaries and bouquet-bearing children. “We really had “Look forward to returning to this beautiful country to celebrate the extraordinarily rich cultures and communities that make it so special,” the couple said in a message posted on social media ahead of their arrival. The king is on a nine-day tour of the land distant Australia and Samoa, of which he is the monarch. He will participate in a barbecue, visit famous monuments. In Australia, he is expected to highlight the dangers of climate change in a country marked by bushfires and floods. He will also meet scientists in a research laboratory working on cancer. Charles is the first sitting British monarch to set foot in Australia since 2011. That year, his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, was welcomed by a large crowd. His long-planned trip aims to strengthen the prestige of the monarchy among an Australian public largely indifferent to the sovereign’s visit. “I think most people see him as a good king,” said Sydney lawyer Clare Cory, 62, who like many of Australians, are divided on the British monarchy. “Most of my ancestors came from England, I think we owe that country something,” she said, before adding that Australia now looks more towards the Asia-Pacific region than towards a place “on the other side of the world”. – Many memories – Australia is dear to Charles III who has many memories there. He went there for the first time in 1966, at the age of 17, for a stay at the isolated Timbertop school , in a mountainous region of the state of Victoria (south-east). Single, he had fallen into an ambush set by a model in a bikini who had kissed him on the cheek and the photo of this ambush had made the world tour.Charles returned to Australia with his wife Diana in 1983, attracting crowds eager to see the “people’s princess” at iconic venues such as the Sydney Opera House. During a visit in 1994, a man fired two blank bullets at the heir to the throne while he was giving a speech on Sydney Harbour. This six-day visit to Australia, followed by five days to Samoa , represents Charles’ longest trip abroad since his cancer treatment began in February. He visited France briefly during the year to mark the 80th anniversary of the Allied landings in Normandy. Australia rejected by referendum in 1999 a change of Constitution to become a Republic. No reform in this sense is any longer on the agenda. Australian Prime Minister Antony Albanese, a lifelong Republican, has not hidden his desire to one day break ties with the monarchy. After Queen Elizabeth’s death, her government replaced the monarch’s face on the country’s five-dollar bill with an indigenous design. A recent poll showed that around a third of Australians would like to abandon the monarchy, a third would keep it and a third are ambivalent. On the eve of his arrival, Charles III carefully sidestepped the issue, declaring that it was for the Australian public to decide.sft/arb/sk/fio