King Charles becomes the first British royal to pray with pope in nearly 500 years

The pope, a white-haired cleanshaven man with glasses, wears a cap on his head and robes while shaking hands with an older cleanshaven man in a suit.

Britain’s King Charles and Pope Leo XIV prayed together in the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel on Thursday, in the first joint worship including an English monarch and a Catholic pontiff since King Henry VIII broke away from Rome in 1534.

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