Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, having met King Charles III during a private audience at Buckingham Palace, says he will publicly swear allegiance to the monarch during Saturday’s coronation
Anthony Albanese has said he has no issues swearing allegiance to King Charles III during a public oath at this weekend’s historic coronation service and warned republicans that staging a vote on Australia’s future head of state was not imminent.
It is the first time Australians and citizens of other Commonwealth nations will be invited to actively take part during a coronation ceremony and raise “a chorus of millions of voices” supporting “their undoubted King, defender of all”. Leaders of the Australian push to ditch the monarchy said on Tuesday they wanted the prime minister to remain silent when guests at the coronation are invited to pledge allegiance to the new monarch.
He confirmed there would be a state funeral, co-hosted by the NSW, Victorian and federal governments because he was someone who had given “an enormous amount of pleasure to generations of Australians”. Albanese said he believed Joe Biden’s age should not stop him from seeking a second term as United States President, saying he was doing a “fantastic job”, and declined to answer whether he would be able to deal with Donald Trump should he return to the White House after the next election.
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