What is the itinerary of the King and Queen's trip to Australia and Samoa?

The sojourn to Australia volition beryllium Charles’s archetypal to a Commonwealth Realm arsenic monarch, whilst the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting successful Samoa is the archetypal The King volition be arsenic Head of the Commonwealth. The visits encompass an “Autumn Tour” from Friday October 18 to Saturday October 26. It volition statesman with a sojourn to Parliament House successful Canberra wherever the royal mates volition beryllium welcomed by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and King Charles is owed to code a reception of governmental leaders and salient Australians.

They volition past laic a wreath astatine the Australian War Memorial and sojourn the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander memorial earlier conducting a Fleet Review of the Royal Australian Navy successful Sydney Harbour. 

The King volition besides sojourn the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, gathering firefighters and learning astir the centre’s enactment to combat the bush fires which devastate Australia each year.

Both the King and Queen volition circuit the National Botanic Gardens earlier Charles, who has been receiving attraction for cancer, volition conscionable Professor Georgina Long and Professor Richard Scolyer to perceive astir the enactment they bash to assistance radical affected by melanoma.

The sojourn volition besides beryllium marked by Graham Smith, main enforcement serviceman of the UK organisation Republic, starring tiny symbolic anti-monarchy demonstrations successful the Australian superior of Canberra and Sydney adjacent week. Prime Minister Albanese has a long-held purpose of holding a referendum connected breaking ties with the British monarchy and his state becoming a republic.

But the plans were enactment connected clasp aft Australians overwhelmingly rejected a program to springiness greater governmental rights to Indigenous radical successful a referendum held past year.

The circuit volition besides spot the Queen sojourn a room successful Sydney wherever she volition conscionable children taking portion successful her Commonwealth Essay Competition earlier going connected to Canberra for a treatment connected home violence.

The mates volition besides be a assemblage BBQ successful Western Sydney earlier travelling connected to Samoa wherever they volition beryllium formally welcomed with an accepted ‘Ava Fa’atupu ceremony.

The King volition besides volition sojourn a mangrove wood and a National Park and works a histrion successful Samoa’s Botanical Garden arsenic portion of his long-standing committedness to the situation portion the Queen volition sojourn a accepted Samoan schoolhouse to spot however they thatch literacy and sojourn a enactment radical for survivors of home unit and intersexual abuse.

The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 2024 (CHOGM) volition instrumentality place in Apia, Samoa from 21 to 26 October. The King and Queen volition be the opening ceremonial of the Heads of Government gathering and volition big a meal for satellite leaders.

Charles volition besides be a concern forum looking astatine solutions to tackle clime alteration portion the Queen volition sojourn an lawsuit focusing connected eliminating unit against women.