King Charles holds an audience with the Governor of Victoria at Balmoral

King Charles has welcomed the Governor of Victoria, Australia, to Aberdeenshire while holding an audience with her at Balmoral Castle.

The monarch, who has been in office for just a month, welcomed Linda Dessau to Balmoral, the royal residence where his mother, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, passed away last month.

Charles III, who is also King of Australia, wore a gray suit with a burgundy tie and handkerchief.

He smiled, standing with his hands behind his back, as he posed for photos with Mrs Dessau in Balmoral’s library on Wednesday mornings.

Ms Dessau, who was a judge at the family court, has held the position since 2015, when she became the first female state governor in southeastern Australia.

She acts as the monarch’s representative in Victoria, which includes the city of Melbourne.

The king’s meeting with Ms. Dessau comes just days after he met the prime minister of the Grenadines, a chain of Caribbean islands, on Saturday, fearing that paradise will dump him as their head of state.

Ralph Gonsalves proposed a referendum asking whether the monarch should be replaced by an appointed ‘executive president’ after protests during the Earl and Countess of Wessex’s visit in April.

In July, Gonsalves told his country’s parliament that the vote would be a chance to “complete the national democratic task” – after gaining independence from the UK in 1979.

King Charles made his first public appearance on Monday with his wife, Queen Consort Camilla, in Dunfermline, where he paid tribute to his late mother.

King Charles III invited the Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines to Balmoral for an audience as the Caribbean island nation considers dumping him as head of state

The monarch was depicted smiling and shaking hands with Ralph Gonsalves and his wife Eloise in the Highlands Castle

His Majesty and the Queen Consort formally granted Dunfermline city status as part of Her Majesty’s platinum jubilee celebrations – and the monarch said the event “would rejoice in my dear mother’s heart, as mine certainly rejoices’.

Charles and Camilla were welcomed to Fife by community groups including a local bagpipe band and school children – with the king and his wife stopping to address the crowd and shake hands. One of those waiting to meet Charles was 91-year-old Catherine Gillian-Adams, who said she was “too excited” that her hometown was now a city.

Thousands gathered in Dunfermline to see the royal couple and other VIPs, including Prime Minister Nicola Sturgeon – who was greeted with cheers and boos. But there was clapping and shouting ‘God Save the King’ when Charles arrived, dressed in a blue tartan kilt.

His Majesty and his wife attended an official council meeting in the City Chambers where the King formally marked the granting of city status to Dunfermline and gave a short speech. It is their first joint public appearance since the royal mourning ended on Tuesday.

King Charles III arrives at an official council meeting at the City Chambers in Dunfermline, Fife, to formally mark the grant of city status to the former city

At the ceremony, the king said he was “elated” when it was announced that the city would become a city. He said he hoped people “are really proud of this new chapter.”

He said: ‘That would, I know, gladden my dear mother’s heart, as surely it gladdens mine. As you celebrate your well-deserved status as Scotland’s new city, I can only offer you my warmest congratulations and best wishes for the years ahead.”

He added: ‘I was delighted when it was announced in May of this year that Dunfermline was one of eight communities to be granted city status on the occasion of the late Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. There could be no more fitting way to mark the extraordinary service of my beloved Mother than by bestowing this honor on a place made famous by its own long and distinguished history and by the indispensable part it has played in the lives of our lives. country.

“Now, of course, we come together to celebrate this great occasion, but also to commemorate the life of Her Majesty, whose deep love for Scotland was one of the foundations of her life.”