King Charles and Queen Camilla are set to go to Australia in late 2024, it’s being reported.
“King Charles is planning to go to Australia and New Zealand in October,” a diplomatic supply informed the Sydney Morning Herald on Tuesday.
It’s been broadly speculated for months that the monarch has been planning his first tour Down Beneath since ascending the throne.
The go to, which is anticipated to coincide with the Commonwealth Heads of Authorities Assembly (CHOGM) in Samoa subsequent yr, will even mark the royal couple’s first time in Australia since 2018.
CHOGM is a week-long occasion, held each two years, and entails 56 developed and growing nations together with Australia, Malaysia, Rwanda, India, Jamaica, Canada and New Zealand.
It would subsequent start on October 21 – and its unknown whether or not the royals’ go to would happen earlier than or after the assembly.
“It might be subsequent October, it’s very attainable it can occur. It might be across the time of CHOGM that he would come, both earlier than or after, that might make sense,” the federal government supply informed the publication.
It comes simply days after Camilla’s son, Tom Parker Bowles, informed reporters for The Age and SMH that his mom and stepfather have been heading to Australia.
“He’s coming subsequent yr, I believe,” he mentioned, though added that he “actually didn’t know” another particulars.
“There’s at all times a royal tour someplace. I at all times assumed that Australia was a vital place to go to,” he mentioned.
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