For the first time in five centuries, an Anglican British monarch and the leader of the Roman Catholic church prayed together in public. King Charles III, the nominal head of the Church of England, joined Pope Leo XIV in an ecumenical service at the Sistine Chapel during a state visit to the Vatican Oct.

King Charles III and Queen Camilla met with Pope Leo XIV on Thursday. The trio met during an audience at the Apostolic Palace in Vatican City. They then went to the Sistine Chapel where, for the first time in 500 years, a King of England and a pope prayed together.

History was made in the Sistine Chapel on Thursday as Pope Leo XIV and King Charles III prayed side by side, the first such meeting since the Protestant Reformation.

King Charles III and Queen Camilla have visited the Vatican to pray with Pope Leo XIV. This historic meeting aims to strengthen ties between the Church of England and the Catholic Church. The event marks the first time since the Reformation that the heads of these two churches have prayed together.

The Catholic Church and Church of England, divided for centuries over issues that now include the ordination of female priests, will take a historic step on the path to unity next week when Britain’s King Charles III and Pope Leo XIV pray together in the Sistine Chapel,

King Charles III prayed with Pope Leo after exchanging gifts at the Vatican on Thursday, making him the first head of the Church of England to do so since it split with the Holy See 500 years ago.

King Charles III and Queen Camilla pray with Pope Leo XIV in the Sistine Chapel, a historic step for Church of England-Catholic relations

King Charles has become the first British monarch to pray with a pope at the Vatican since the Catholic and Anglican churches split up five centuries ago.

Andrew has hit a new low in his inexorable fall from grace, stripped of his cherished royal titles and exiled to rural England.