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The historic meeting and prayer service was also publicly lamented by the Orange Order, an international Protestant fraternal order based in Northern Ireland and primarily associated with Ulster Protestants.
The visit will mark the first meeting between King Charles and Pope Leo XIV.
State visits to the Vatican by the British monarch are, like their secular equivalents, more formal occasions than private visits, emphasizing ecumenical as well as diplomatic relations.
The date was 'particularly significant' for the English Royal Family, being Charles and Camilla’s 20th wedding anniversary
For the first time, the king will also visit the Papal Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls, which, the palace said, had a particular link to English kings before the Reformation.
The April trip coincides with the Jubilee of Hope celebrations.
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