The King has landed. On Friday evening, as rain fell on the tarmac at Sydney airport, Charles III, King of Australia, arrived for his seventeenth visit to the country he fell in love with as a teenager – and his first as monarch.

Hundreds of well-wishers greeted Britain's King Charles and Queen Camilla in Sydney on Sunday as the royal couple attended church, with the king saying it was a "great joy" to return to Australia in his first visit to an overseas realm as sovereign.

Britain’s King Charles and Queen Camilla met large, cheering crowds in Sydney after attending a church service on Sunday, the first event of their Australia tour.