Princess Royal attends Anzac Day dawn service in London
cultureApr 25, 20261786
Princess Anne laid wreaths at Hyde Park's dawn service in London to mark Anzac Day. Across Australia, small groups booed 'welcome to country' speeches at dawn services in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth, disrupting ceremonies. Indigenous leaders, including Uncle Jack Pearson, condemned the orchestrated heckling as 'not in the Anzac spirit' and called it racism 'a cancer.' The contrast between solemn commemorations and these disruptions highlights tensions over Indigenous recognition during national remembrance of fallen service members.