Another sovereign was on Queen Camilla ’s mind the day she met Pope Leo XIV . Joined by King Charles III , Camilla used Vatican dress code to shift the spotlight away from Prince Andrew ’s current headline-making misdeeds and invoke another member of the royal family: the late Queen Elizabeth .

This was no mere audience or regular state visit: the king and head of the Church of England prayed together with a Catholic pontiff for the first time in 500 years. And Camilla dressed for the occasion. She opted to forgo a tiara like the one Queen Elizabeth donned when she met John XXIII on solemn occasions in 1961 or John Paul II in 1980 . Instead, Camilla sported a mantilla—a more all-encompassing black veil encircled in a crown of matching leaves designed by Philip Trea

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