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We await the British newspapers’ search for an excuse to foment one of their amusing attacks of the vapours about some esoteric lack of etiquette among the colonials during the coming trip to Australia by King Charles and Queen Camilla.

Among the more memorable Fleet Street tantrums was the confection of 1992 when then-Australian prime minister, Paul Keating, placed a protective hand on Queen Elizabeth II’s back as he guided her through a crowded Parliament House in Canberra.

Then Prime Minister Paul Keating sent the English tabloids into a rampage after touching the Queen as he introduced her to dignitaries.

“Hands orf, cobber”, screamed The Star on its front page. The Daily Mirror roared that “Aussies don’t give a XXXX about manhandling the Queen.”

“The Lizard of Oz,” was the breathless effort of The Sun.

These 32 years later, however, the travelling palace correspondents will have to look much harder to find reasons to yelp about lapses in so-called royal protocol.

Queen Camilla shakes hands Sunday Express editor David Wooding ... who’s overdoing the bow a bit.Credit: AP

Indeed, Australian officials or members of the public obsessing about how to behave towards King Charles III and Queen Camilla – should they bow or curtsy and stammer about how splendid it is to meet Yer Royal Highnesses? – can begin to relax.

There has long been a dizzying array of unwritten rules – no royal autographs, for instance, lest forgers learn........

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