For an issue that has plagued Australian citizens for hundreds of years, King Charles offered to provide a solution.

In particular, King Charles stated that he will not stand in the way if Australia wish to replace him as the country’s head of state, according to information.

Ahead of his visit later this month, the king is said to be adopting a “anti-conflict approach” to Australian democracy activists, the Daily Mail reported.

In response to his request Australian Republican Movement (ARM) to meet the monarch, the king’s assistant private secretary is understood to have stressed his “deep love and affection” for Australia.

Nathan Ross is quoted as saying to the anti-monarchists: “His Majesty, as a constitutional monarch, acts on the advice of his ministers and whether Australia becomes a democracy is therefore a matter for the Australian people to decide».

ARM states that it is “the peak body advocating on behalf of the Australian people for an Australian democracy with an Australian as our head of state». Australia conducted referendum in 1999 on the subject of democracy, in which the 54.9% voted against.

The Prime Minister, Anthony Albanesehas previously stated that “Australia should have an Australian as our head of state‘, but recently indicated that a second referendum was not a priority.

A Buckingham Palace spokesman said: “Like his mother before him, the king feels he is a matter of the Australian people».

Graham Smith, head of the British team Republic campaign who is in Australia to protest against the monarchy during the king’s visit, said his main reaction to the trip was “indifference”.

“I have been in Australia talking to friends, activists and others for the past two weeks. Most people barely know about the visit and couldn’t care less.”.

“I am here to promote the UK campaign, to question how Charles can represent us and why he is making this short visit at great expense to the Australian and British taxpayers.”.

“I am also here to tell Australians that this is not an institution worthy of respect and that they should not believe for a moment that the UK is a nation of royals. I hope the visit will help influence the debate in both countries and highlight the irrelevance of the monarchy».

The visit will be the king’s most significant overseas tour since cancer diagnosis and his first in Australia as head of state.

A little history

On January 1, 1901, a federation of colonies was created after a decade of planning, deliberation and voting. This established the Commonwealth of Australia as a possession of the British Empire.

The Federal Capital Territory (later called the Australian Capital Territory) was created in 1911 to replace the future capital Canberra. Melbourne was the temporary seat of government from 1901 until 1927 while Canberra was being built. In 1914, Australia fought on Britain’s side during the First World War.

Australians took part in many of the major battles of the Western Front. Of the 416,000 soldiers, about 60,000 were killed and 152,000 wounded. Many Australians consider the defeat of the Australian and New Zealand (ANZAK) troops in the Gallipoli campaign to be the birth of the nation, the first of great military action.

The British Act of Westminster in 1931 formally ended most constitutional institutions between Australia and the United Kingdom. Australia adopted it in 1942. The surprise of the British defeat in Asia in 1942 and the threat of Japanese invasion turned Australia to the United States to find an ally and protector. The Japanese bombed Darwin in 1942 and attacked with submarines in Sydney Harbor on 31 May 1942. But invasion fears subsided after Allied victories against the Japanese at the Coral Sea, Midway and Kokota Pass, Papua New Guinea.

Since 1951, Australia, New Zealand and the United States have been official military allies. After World War II, Australia encouraged immigration from Europe. After the abolition of the White Australia Policy in the 1970s, immigrants from Asia and other regions are admitted. The last constitutional ties between Australia and the United Kingdom were severed by the 1986 act.