The last time Charles and Camilla visited Australia in 2018, local marriage celebrant Lesley Kerl wore a bright red dress and managed to get close enough to the royal couple to strike up a conversation.
Naturally, it was about tea – a subject close to the heart of many British people – as Kerl passed Charles, then prince now King, a gift of a teapot from people further back in the crowd of flag-waving supporters. “I got the bug after I saw him that time,” said Kerl, who counts herself as a supporter of the British royals, but not necessarily a diehard monarchist.
For others, the trip is an irrelevant distraction from a cost-of-living crisis as mortgage-holders struggle to find extra cash to finance loans inflated by high interest rates. In a week where Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was reported to have bought a 4.3 million Australian dollar clifftop beach house, talk has also turned to the lack of housing affordability. For the average Australian, lauding a visiting monarch from a palace in a foreign land is not high on their list of priorities.
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