King Charles attended a poignant meeting alone in Australia on Tuesday and spent some time with a survivor of the "stolen generation".

During his trip, King Charles also admitted that it was “slightly worrying” to realize his first visit to Australia had been in 1966, when the then-17-year-old Prince Charles studied abroad at Timbertop, a remote campus of Geelong Grammar School in Victoria, Australia.

It was awkward and uncomfortable, but the King appeared unruffled and took the disruption in his stride. A trip to Australia always runs the risk of protests, and royal security staff and local police would have factored that in. Republican demonstrations were deemed a higher risk than those from Indigenous communities.