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Queen Elizabeth recording her annual Christmas broadcast at Windsor Castle on Dec. 23, 2021 and Taylor Swift at the MTV Video Music Awards on Sept. 11, 2024.<\/span>\u00a0Photo:\u00a0<\/span>Victoria Jones\/PA Wire;Getty<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Queen Elizabeth\u00a0was actual royalty, but her former press secretary said her fame was comparable to pop music royalty.<\/p>\n

Ailsa Andersen accompanied the monarch on what would become her final tour of Australia in October 2011, when Queen Elizabeth visited Canberra, Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth. Andersen told\u00a0The Sun<\/em>\u00a0that the Queen was so popular Down Under that it was comparable to a singer beloved by many.<\/p>\n

\u201cI remember the crowds, the big Aussie barbeque in Perth, which was the last big event. It felt like the Queen was\u00a0Taylor Swift,\u201d Andersen said. \u201cHonestly, the crowds were enormous \u2014 cheering. It was electric.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Queen first visited Australia in 1954, when she was just two years into what would become a historic 70-year reign that ended when she died on Sept. 8, 2022 at age 96. She would go on to visit the Commonwealth realm 14 more times before that final 2011 tour, bringing her total number of visits to 16.<\/p>\n

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Queen Elizabeth greets the crowds on arrival at Fairbairn base on Oct. 19, 2011 in Canberra, Australia.<\/span>Alex Coppel – Pool\/Getty<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Andersen pointed to \u201cthe crowds, the genuine people, just the adoration\u201d that the Queen and her husband,\u00a0Prince Philip, encountered when they visited the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a real boost for the Queen and Prince Philip, because you never know how many people are going to be interested \u2014 but clearly they were,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The Queen\u2019s son,\u00a0King Charles, just wrapped up a six-day tour of Australia with wife\u00a0Queen Camilla\u00a0before heading to Samoa on Wednesday, Oct. 23 to attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) 2024 there. This trip, which kicked off on Friday, Oct. 18, was Charles\u2019 17th visit Down Under and his first since 2018, when he and Camilla last visited to open the Commonwealth Games on the Queensland Gold Coast.<\/p>\n

The King and Queen were met with large crowds while in Australia, where they visited both Sydney and Canberra. On Tuesday, Oct. 22, the Royal Family Instagram account captioned a photo of a crowd in Sydney, \u201cWow Sydney, what a turnout!\u201d alongside a starry-eyed smile emoji and a heart hands emoji.<\/p>\n

But the reception wasn\u2019t 100% positive. In a shocking moment of the tour while in Canberra,\u00a0lawmaker Lidia Thorpe, an Aboriginal Australian politician, confronted the King, 75, at the Australian Parliament on Monday, Oct. 21, yelling in part, \u201cThis is not your land. This is not your land. You are not my King, you are not our king,\u201d according to\u00a0videos taken from the event.<\/p>\n

As PEOPLE previously reported, the King was reported to be unruffled by the protest, and Buckingham Palace spokespeople had no comment.<\/p>\n

The protest came as debates continue as to whether King Charles should remain Australia\u2019s head of state. Australia is one of 14 Commonwealth realms that still recognize Charles as their King, and Australia has flirted with becoming a republic as opposed to a constitutional monarchy for years, even putting the matter up for a vote in 1999, when Queen Elizabeth was very much still on the throne. The King recently reaffirmed the longstanding position of the monarchy, reinforcing that it is up to the people of any of the countries that have him as head of state to make the decision whether to retain him or not. Aides recently shared in a letter to the Australian Republic Movement (ARM) that \u201cwhether Australia becomes a republic is \u2026 a matter for the\u00a0Australian public to decide.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition to the protest in Canberra on Monday, the next day, Tuesday, Oct. 22, a statue in Sydney of King Charles\u2019 great-great-great-grandmother, Queen Victoria, was\u00a0vandalized with red paint\u00a0just hours before the King made an appearance nearby.<\/p>\n

A palace source pointed to the crowds that greeted King Charles and Queen Camilla, 77, saying the royal couple was \u201cdeeply grateful to the many thousands who turned out to support them, and are only sorry they didn\u2019t have a chance to stop and talk to every single one. The warmth and scale of the reception was truly awesome.\u201d<\/p>\n

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King Charles and Queen Camilla depart following a service at St. Thomas’s Anglican Church on Oct. 20, 2024 in Sydney, Australia.<\/span>Dean Lewins – Pool\/Getty<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Charles became only the second British monarch \u2014 and the first British King \u2014 to visit Australia. The\u00a0first monarch to visit, of course, was his mother, Queen Elizabeth, when she visited for\u00a0the first time\u00a070 years ago. According to Australia\u2019s Centre of Democracy, it\u2019s estimated that\u00a0close to 75% of Australia\u2019s population\u00a0saw her in person on that 1954 visit alone.<\/p>\n

\u201cRoyal visits are a part of the history of national pride in Australia. This was especially the case for the 1954 tour,\u201d according to the Centre. \u201cFor Australia, the visit was a chance to promote the post-war development of the country, while for the Crown, it was a chance to strengthen alliances throughout the Commonwealth countries.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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