King Charles harassed by Australian lawmaker: 'You are not my king'

An Australian lawmaker was dragged away by security after confronting King Charles III. during his visit to the country and shouted: “'You are not my king!'”

Lidia Thorpe, an Indigenous independent Australian senator who once called Queen Elizabeth II a colonizer during her swearing-in ceremony in 2022, lashed out at King Charles in the Great Hall of Parliament House in Canberra on Monday.

“Give us what you stole from us: our bones, our skulls, our babies, our people,” Thorpe told Charles.

“This is not your country. This is not your country. You are not my king, you are not our king!” Thorpe can be heard screaming as a video shows her being escorted from the area.

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Australian Senator Lidia Thorpe (centre) is led away as she disrupts proceedings as Britain's King Charles and Queen Camilla attend a parliamentary reception hosted by Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his partner Jodie Haydon on Monday, October 21 at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia. (Lukas Coch/Pool Photo via AP)

Before the eruption, the king gave a speech in which he paid tribute to the First Nations people and their “traditional wisdom” and expressed his respect to the “traditional owners of the land on which we meet,” The Telegraph reported.

Thorpe's behavior – which included her telling the king: “You have committed genocide against our people” and “F— the colonies” – is now being criticized by other lawmakers, the newspaper added.

“To show such complete disrespect for King Charles, who traveled to Australia despite ongoing cancer treatment, is disgusting,” Ralph Babet, a senator from the United Australia Party, was quoted as saying.

“Senator Thorpe has disgraced not only himself and the Australian Parliament, but every Australian man, woman and child,” he reportedly added.

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Australian Senator Lidia Thorpe has previously called Queen Elizabeth II a colonizer. (Lukas Coch/Pool Photo via AP)

Ngunnawal elder Aunt Violet Sheridan, who was sitting on stage next to King Charles when the incident occurred, told The Telegraph that it “scared the hell out of me” and that she “thought she was being disrespectful and inappropriate.”

“I hope we fix this before our next generation comes through,” she said. “Hopefully people will see it for what it is: a one-off idiot.”

The British King Charles III. and Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese are seen at Government House in Canberra, Australia on Monday, October 21. (Saeed Khan/Pool Photo via AP)

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In 2022, during Thorpe's swearing-in ceremony in the same building, she said: “I, Empress Lidia Thorpe, solemnly and sincerely confirm and declare that I will be faithful, and I bear true allegiance to the colonizing Queen Elizabeth II,” which elicited ridicule and groans from her colleagues.