Charles heckled by Australian senator shouting ‘you are not my King’ with security forced to step in
King Charles’ address to the Australian parliament erupted into chaos Monday after a senator shouted “you are not my king” and accused him of “committing genocide against our people.”
The cancer-stricken monarch, 75, is currently Down Under on a five-day tour as part of an official state visit with his wife, Queen Camilla.
It is the king’s first visit to Australia as sovereign.
King Charles’ address to the Australian parliament erupted into chaos on Monday.Getty Images
After wrapping up his speech in the Great Hall of Parliament House in Canberra on Monday, Indigenous senator Lidia Thorpe immediately rushed over to the stage.
“This is not your country,” she yelled at Charles, who sat beside his wife and Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese.
The camera then cut to the royals, who watched Thorpe’s protest without a visible reaction.
A senator shouted “you are not my king” and accused the king of “committing genocide against our people.”via REUTERS
“You are not our king, you are not sovereign… You destroyed our land,” she went on, before being stopped from approaching the king.
Thorpe was then escorted out of the hall by security while yelling, “F–k the colony.”
Charles and Camilla have found themselves at the center of various protests during their trip to Australia — a former British colony.
“This is not your country,” Lidia Thorpe yelled at Charles following his speech.via REUTERS
The king acknowledged Indigenous communities during his speech, saying, “Let me also say how deeply I appreciated this morning’s moving ‘Welcome to Country’ ceremony, which offers me the opportunity to pay my respects to the traditional owners of the lands on which we meet, the Ngunnawal people and all First Nations peoples who have loved and cared for this continent for sixty-five thousand years.”
Australia, where the king still serves as head of state, remains the only Commonwealth country without a treaty with its Indigenous people.
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