The royals get on the tongs, banter with surf lifesavers and meet massive crowds at the Sydney Opera House

• Australian senator Lidia Thorpe confronted King Charles with string of claims. How do they stack up?

Just as King Charles and Queen Camilla arrived at a barbecue picnic in western Sydney, the strains of the Jimmy Barnes anthem, Working Class Man, wafted mysteriously and humorously above the crowd.

As Barnsey rasped out the opening lyrics of the Aussie classic, Charles and Camilla greeted hundreds of invited guests in the punishing Parramatta Park heat. Muster dogs waited patiently atop barrels and a windmill slowly twirled above a pile of hay.