King Charles III: Australia trip cheaper than the Queen’s

King Charles III’s visit to Australia (76) and Queen Camilla (77) cost significantly less than the visits of Queen Elizabeth II (1926-2022) in 2006 and 2011. The cost-cutting measures included the British royal couple traveling part of the route to and from Australia a scheduled airline – from Great Britain to Singapore and back.

When the Queen visited Australia in 2006 – a five-day trip with stops in Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne and the Commonwealth Games – it cost around 865,000 euros (716,774 pounds), according to British newspaper The Telegraph. In 2011, during her last visit to Australia, the Queen visited Canberra, Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth within 11 days. The trip even cost more than 1.6 million euros (1,328,461 pounds). Charles and Camilla, on the other hand, were on a budget: their trip in October 2024 cost 360,000 euros (297,000 pounds), which is less than half the cost of the late Queen’s short visit 18 years earlier.

The total cost of Charles and Camilla’s six-day tour included travel, accommodation, meals, events, hospitality, transportation and flag making. This cost around 60,000 euros per day. It was the King’s first visit Down Under as monarch. The trip was adjusted to include a day of rest as he continues his cancer treatment, which is expected to last until 2025. The rest of the time, Charles and Camilla were almost constantly on duty and completed up to ten appointments a day.