Princess Anne is in Australia as part of a four-day tour of Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.
Often dubbed the hardest-working British royal, King Charles only sister will spend four days travelling the country with her husband, Sir Timothy Laurence, to mark the centenary of the Royal Australian Corps of Signals.
Princess Anne at the Victoria Police Memorial in Melbourne on Monday.Credit: Nine News
The visit comes at an awkward time for the British royal family after her younger brother, formerly known as Prince Andrew, was stripped of his title over his links to the late paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.
On Monday, the 75-year-old princess laid a wreath at the Victoria Police Memorial in Melbourne in honour of the two officers allegedly shot dead by Dezi Freeman near Porepunkah in August.
On Sunday, she took part in a commemorative service at the ANZAC Memorial in central Sydney before attending the signal corps’ centenary at nearby Victoria Barracks.
She has been the corps’ colonel-in-chief for almost half a century.
Royal watchers say the trip was likely planned months in advance, without prior knowledge of the King’s actions against their brother, now known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor.
AAP.