King Charles sends message to Australia as monarch arrives for first visit since cancer diagnosis - The visit is King Charles’s first tour of Australia as king

The royals have taken to social media to share their excitement, but not everyone is so positive about the trip.

King Charles and Queen Camilla are set to embark on a nine-day tour of Australia on Friday, but not one State Premier will greet the couple at a reception

King Charles is heading to Australia for his first royal visit since becoming king. Here's where you might catch a glimpse of royalty.

Australian pro-royalists have called the backlash a “slap in the face” to the royal monarchy, with the Australian Monarchists League telling local media: “All premiers and ministers have sworn allegiance to our monarch, Charles III, and it is a monumental insult that they now spit in his hand extended in friendship.”

For the 200 students and their guests, the fact that King Charles is travelling over 16,000 km (10,000 miles) across 10 different time zones, to tour the country from 18 to 26 October - all while going through cancer treatment - is a testament to his love of Australia. And for that they are grateful.

King Charles III and Queen Camilla’s plane officially landed at Sydney International Airport just after 8.20pm on Friday ahead of a whirlwind five-day tour that begins in the Harbour City before heading to Canberra.

King Charles and Queen Camilla have expressed their excitement at returning to ‘beautiful’ Australia ahead of the first day of their royal tour.The couple, who will tour Australia and Samoa for eight days,

King Charles III and Queen Camilla will soon arrive in Sydney on the first Australian visit by a reigning monarch in more than a decade

King Charles III and Queen Camilla will arrive in Sydney on Friday for the first Australian visit by a reigning monarch in more than a decade, a trip that has rekindled debate about the nation’s constitutional links to Britain.