Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said he had a “warm” meeting with the King and respected him as the country’s head of state, despite being a republican.
The politician, in the UK ahead of the coronation, spoke after joining Defence Secretary Ben Wallace to tour the BAE Systems shipyard in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, where nuclear submarines will be built as part of the Aukus agreement announced earlier this year by UK, Australian and US leaders.
