King Charles and Queen Camilla's recent royal tour of Australia and Samoa was significantly cheaper than Queen Elizabeth II's previous visits to the country. The tour cost $372,797, while Queen Elizabeth's 2006 and 2011 trips cost over $899,000 and $1.6 million respectively.
According to reports, King Charles and Queen Camilla 's royal tour of Australia and Samoa cost a total of $372,797, or approximately $62,000 per day. This figure included everything necessary for the royal tour, from travel costs and accommodation, to the couple's meals, events they attended, and general hospitality. Conversely, both of Queen Elizabeth's most recent trips to Australia cost considerably more than her son's visit.
As reported, the late Queen's 2006 visit, which lasted a total of five days, cost a whopping $899,701. When the former monarch returned to Australia in 2011, for an 11-day visit incorporating stops in Canberra, Brisbane, Melbourne, and Perth, the trip cost a jaw-dropping $1.6 million. Aboriginal Australian senator Lidia Thorpe referenced past abuses and colonial genocide, and then requested that the United Kingdom enter into a treaty with Australia’s Indigenous population. 'Our bones, our skulls, our babies, our people,' Thorpe shouted at Charles. 'You destroyed our land.
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