Oh my God, Australian Senator Lidia Thorpe yelling at Charles

King Charles faced shouts of “you are not my King” from an independent member of parliament shortly after finishing a speech in the Australian Parliament on the second official day of his engagement in the country.

Lidia Thorpe, an Indigenous Australian woman, disrupted the event in the capital Canberra by shouting for a minute before being escorted away by security.

After making claims of genocide against “our people”, he was heard shouting: “This is not your world, you are not my Lord.”

But elderly Aunty Violet Sheridan, who has previously hosted the King and Queen, said Thorpe’s protest was “disrespectful”, adding: “He doesn’t speak for me.

The ceremony ended without any mention of the incident, and the royal couple continued to meet the hundreds of people waiting outside to greet them.

Australia is a Commonwealth country where the King serves as head of state, but recently there has been debate about removing the King from the position.

Thorpe, an independent member of parliament for Victoria, has long advocated for an agreement between the Australian government and its first citizens.

Australia is the only former British colony that does not have one, and many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples insist they have never surrendered their sovereignty or land to the Crown.

Afterwards, Thorpe told the BBC he wanted to send a “clear message” to the King.

“To be a king, you must belong to the country,” he said. “He is not of this world.”

He said the King must order Parliament to negotiate a peace agreement with the First Nations.

“We can lead that, we can do that, we can be a better country – but we can’t bow down to the ruler, whose ancestors he talks about who are responsible for mass killings and extermination of many people.”

Thorpe, who wore a possum skin coat, described the late Queen Elizabeth II as “taking over the colony” and was made to repeat her oath when she was sworn in as a member of parliament in 2022.

There has been a long-running debate about how to address disparities between First Nations people and the wider community, including poor health, wealth and educational outcomes.

Despite the protest, many others were happy to see members of the royal family, and people lined up outside Parliament House all morning in the punishing Canberra sun, waving Australian flags.

Jamie Karpas, 20, said he had no idea the royal couple were visiting on Monday, adding: “As someone who saw Harry and Meghan the last time they were here, I’m really excited. I think the Royal Family is part of Australian culture. They are a big part of our lives.”

Meanwhile, CJ Adams, a US-Australian student at the Australian National University, said: “You are the head of state of the British Empire – you should take the information you can get while you are in Canberra.”

A number of those who did not support it had gathered on the grass in front of the Parliament House building.

A royal visit to Canberra was always going to touch on Australia’s history and Aboriginal people, but Thorpe’s intervention meant the King and Queen faced it more directly than originally planned.

The King and Queen arrived in Canberra earlier in the day and were greeted by a queue of politicians, school children and Ngunnawal Elder Aunty Serena Williams, who represents Aboriginal people.

They were traditionally welcomed in the Great Hall of Parliament House in Canberra to the sound of the digeridoo.

Silo spoke about the indigenous communities and what he learned from them, saying that his own experience was “formed and strengthened by traditional wisdom”.

“In my many visits to Australia, I have seen the courage and hope that guides the nation’s long and sometimes difficult journey to reconciliation,” she said.

But as he sat down, Thorpe’s protest rang out in the hall.

His intervention was criticized by Aunty Sheridan, an Aboriginal elder who delivered part of the King and Queen’s welcome speech to Parliament.

He told the BBC: “The king is not well. He is on chemo and he didn’t need this.

“Of course I appreciate his visit here. It might be the last time he comes. A lot of people are talking about my thoughts.”

Buckingham Palace has not officially commented on Thorpe’s protest, instead focusing on the crowds who were expected to see the King and Queen in Canberra.

A palace source said the royal couple was deeply moved by the many thousands who came to support them.

For decades, Australia has debated whether to break away from monarchy and become a republic. In 1999 this question was put to the public in a referendum – the only way to change the nation’s constitution – and it was spectacularly defeated.

Polls suggest that support for the party has grown since then, and the country’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, who shook hands with King shortly before the senator’s intervention, is a long-time republican.

However, the Albanian government has ruled out holding a second vote on the issue anytime soon, following a failed referendum on indigenous recognition last year.

The visit by King Charles – in a year of cancer treatment – is the first to Australia since he took over from his mother Queen Elizabeth II. Due to her health, this trip is shorter than previous royal visits.

There was a small moment this morning when the King petted an alpaca wearing a small crown, when he stopped to speak to members of the public after visiting Canberra’s war memorial.

The royal couple also planted trees at Government House before the King, a long-time conservationist, visited the National Bushfire Behavior Research Laboratory.