An Australian senator who confronted King Charles in parliament has shared a cartoon showing the monarch beheaded on social media. Lidia Thorpe, 51, an outspoken advocate for Indigenous rights, shouted at the King in a fiery address during his royal reception in Great Hall of Parliament House on Monday.

During his visit to the Australian parliament on Monday, King Charles was accused of genocide by Indigenous Senator Lidia Thorpe, shocking assembled lawmakers and other dignitaries. This came moments after the monarch delivered a speech in which he paid his ‘respects to the traditional owners of the lands’.

You committed genocide against our people’An Australian politician shouted “you are not my King” at Charles III during his

Charles, on his 16th official visit to Australia and his first major foreign trip since being diagnosed with cancer, had finished speaking when independent senator and Indigenous activist Lidia Thorpe shouted that she did not accept Charles' sovereignty over Australia.

Indigenous lawmaker Lidia Thorpe was removed from an event at Australia’s parliament after accusing the British royal family of “genocide” and stealing land.

Britain's King Charles was embraced by an Indigenous elder after a welcome smoking ceremony on Tuesday in the birthplace of Australia's urban Aboriginal civil rights movement in Sydney, a day after being heckled by an Indigenous senator in Canberra.

An Indigenous senator told King Charles III that Australia is not his land as the British royal visited Australia’s parliament.

Sen. Lidia Thorpe seen being led away by security at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia. (Credit: APTN/Australia Pool)