King Charles III landed in Rome Wednesday for a state visit to the Vatican, where he will meet Pope Leo XIV and make history as the first British monarch to pray publicly with the pontiff since the Church of England broke away from Catholicism 500 years ago.

The visit comes at a delicate time for the British king following new revelations about his brother, Prince Andrew, who is mired in a scandal surrounding late US sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

After landing at Rome’s Ciampino military airport on Wednesday evening, Charles and Queen Camilla were scheduled to meet Leo for the first time since he succeeded the late pope Francis in May.

On Thursday, Charles — head of the Anglican church — and Leo will pray together in the first such public religious moment since Henry VIII abandoned the

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