Australian pro-royalists have called the backlash a “slap in the face” to the royal monarchy, with the Australian Monarchists League telling local media: “All premiers and ministers have sworn allegiance to our monarch, Charles III, and it is a monumental insult that they now spit in his hand extended in friendship.”

The physicians will join the royal entourage after news broke that the monarch decided to “pause” cancer treatments while abroad.

King Charles and Queen Camilla are set to embark on a nine-day tour of Australia on Friday, but not one State Premier will greet the couple at a reception

King Charles III and Queen Camilla are days away from touching down in Australia, but royal watchers say the tour Down Under may be papering over a darker truth.

The Australian Republican Movement (ARM) has initiated a campaign branding King Charles’s upcoming visit to Australia as the “farewell tour” of the

The anon royal aide adds that “It’s all about proving he isn’t dying, to be blunt. The problem is that if anything goes wrong, people will leap to the opposite conclusion. It’s make-or-break for Charles, I think."

The visit, scheduled from Oct. 18 to Oct. 26, is the first royal tour the King has undertaken since being diagnosed with cancer earlier this year

King Charles and Queen Camilla will be accompanied by two royal doctors on their visit to Australia this Friday.

King Charles III is facing a significant snub from Australian politicians ahead of his upcoming royal tour. No state premiers plan to attend the monarch's welcome event in Canberra on October 21. Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan and her deputy,

King Charles will "pause" his cancer treatment during his visit to Australia and Samoa alongside Queen Camilla in October, the 'Daily Mail' reported.