Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says he will declare his allegiance to King Charles III at the monarch’s coronation.
King Charles III, left, receives Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, right, during an audience at Buckingham Palace in London, Britain, Tuesday May 2, 2023. – Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Friday he would declare his allegiance to King Charles III at the monarch’s coronation despiteAlbanese voted in a failed referendum in 1999 for an Australian citizen to replace the British monarch as the country's head of state.
The Australian Republic Movement, which campaigns for Australia to become a republic, has urged Albanese to remain silent when the Archbishop of Canterbury invites “all who desire” among the congregation at Westminster Abbey to take the oath of allegiance to the king. “I think as the Australian prime minister, people expect me to not come to the king’s coronation in order to create a controversy,” Albanese said.
He took an affirmation of office, a secular alternative to the oath that doesn’t mention God or the monarch.
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