andBefore starting his tour on Sunday, the King, who is traveling abroad for the first time since being diagnosed with cancer, rested for a day.
The King signed a bible carried arrived with the First Fleet while attending a church in a district of north Sydney.
The King had previously done this, though, and his autograph was found on a 1983 vacation the couple took with Princess Diana.
WalesThe page has also been signed by other royals, including Prince William and the Princess of Wales, as well as Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson, apparently.
On the first day, the King also made a joke about the “sands of time” when chatting to lawmakers about how happy he was to be back in Australia.
To commemorate the 200th anniversary of its upper chamber, the emperor sent the New South Wales parliament an hourglass, which he dubbed a “speech timer.”
As he presented the timepiece to the parliament, he apparently couldn’t help but start the fine sand of the hourglass.
