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King Charles meets Pope Leo for historic prayer
Daily News
|October 24, 2025
KING Charles III met yesterday with Pope Leo XIV during a state visit to the Vatican, where he will make history as the first head of the Church of England to pray publicly with a pontiff.
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POPE LEO XIV during a meeting with Britain's King Charles III and Britain's Queen Camilla in The Vatican.
(AFP)
The 76-year-old monarch, who holds the title of supreme governor of the mother church of Anglicanism, flew to Rome this week with his wife, Queen Camilla, for what Buckingham Palace described as a “historic” trip.
The royals were greeted at the Apostolic Palace testerday by a ceremonial guard of honour by the Swiss Guard, the pope’s colourful private bodyguards, before a private meeting with Leo in the papal library.
It was Charles’ first meeting with Pope Leo, who took over as head of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics in May following the death of Pope Francis.
This story is from the October 24, 2025 edition of Daily News.
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