King Charles III flipped sausages and admired Australian avocados on Tuesday on the final leg of his tour Down Under, a whirlwind jaunt designed to shore up support in one of his biggest realms.<\/p>\n
The 75-year-old regent crisscrossed Sydney on his last full day of engagements, touring housing projects in the inner city and a suburban community barbecue before a planned finale at the Opera House.<\/p>\n
Lifeguards from Sydney\u2019s famous Bondi Beach watched as the \u201cflexitarian\u201d king \u2014 who gives up meat and fish two days each week \u2014 turned over sausages on a smoky grill.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a particular delight to see and smell all the top tucker here today,\u201d he told the crowd, paying tribute to Australia\u2019s much loved \u201csmashed avo\u201d and \u201ccab sav\u201d red wine.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo thank you, everyone, for coming to join us at this \u2018barbie\u2019 today.\u201d<\/p>\n
In a makeshift field nearby, the king watched as Australian working dogs competed to round up flocks of sheep.<\/p>\n
An Australian pub rock staple, \u201cWorking Class Man\u201d by Jimmy Barnes, blared over the speakers as Charles and Queen Camilla arrived.<\/p>\n
Charles started his day in the inner-Sydney suburb of Redfern, the spiritual birthplace of one of Australia\u2019s most significant Indigenous rights movements.<\/p>\n
\u201cThats your accommodation tonight, your majesty,\u201d one of his guides joked with a smile as they strolled past a caravan parked on the campus of an Indigenous learning centre.<\/p>\n
It was a warmer welcome than his appearance at Australia\u2019s parliament a day earlier, when an Indigenous senator stunned assembled dignitaries by shouting at the regent to \u201cgive us our land back\u201d.<\/p>\n
In the afternoon, the king will meet celebrated oncologists Georgina Long and Richard Scolyer as well as cancer patients at the Melanoma Institute Australia.<\/p>\n
Thousands of citizens of this sun-baked country get skin cancer every year, prompting Australia\u2019s scientists to pioneer a suite of new treatments.<\/p>\n
Charles himself was diagnosed with cancer eight months ago and remains in treatment.<\/p>\n
His type of cancer has not been publicly disclosed.<\/p>\n
Top gun <\/strong><\/p>\n Later on Tuesday, Charles and Queen Camilla will embark on what may be the centrepiece of their Australian visit.<\/p>\n The royals will meet members of the public on the Sydney Opera House forecourt before surveying warships gathered in the harbour and witnessing an airforce flyover.<\/p>\n It was at the Opera House in 1983 that the then-prince Charles and a 21-year-old princess Diana greeted thousands of admirers.<\/p>\n It was seemingly a public triumph, but Diana \u2014 who stole the show \u2014 was later photographed bursting into tears at the event.<\/p>\n Commentators would later wonder if it was one of the first public signs of tumult in their fairytale marriage. The pair would later separate and divorce.<\/p>\n This time around, a flotilla of guided missile destroyers, helicopter frigates, and coastal minehunters has been assembled for the occasion.<\/p>\n And an array of Black Hawk helicopters, Super Hornet, and F-35A fighter jets will scream by overhead.<\/p>\n Savvy cruise boat operators had been selling tickets for the event at US$66 per person.<\/p>\n In time for the event, Charles was awarded a spray of military gongs to mark his arrival in Australia.<\/p>\n The one-time trainee jet pilot who crashed an RAF plane in remote northwest Scotland now holds five-star ranks in each of the Australian service branches.<\/p>\n Charles, in addition to being king of the realm, can now call himself field marshal of Australia\u2019s army, marshal of its airforce and admiral of the fleet.<\/p>\n On Wednesday, the royal couple depart for Samoa, where they will attend a Commonwealth summit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"King Charles III flipped sausages and admired Australian avocados on Tuesday on the final leg of his tour…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7730,7731,1760,7710,519],"class_list":{"0":"post-612848","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-british-royal-family","9":"tag-charles","10":"tag-charles-iii","11":"tag-king-charles","12":"tag-royal-families","13":"tag-royal-family"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115664471155336610","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}