If ever there was a time to pray, then this was probably it. With the Palace under siege for its handling of the Prince Andrew crisis , and the growing clamour for more transparency about the financing of Royal Lodge, a quiet moment of peace and harmony was just what the doctor ordered for poor old King Charles .

History was made when the King and the Pope – supreme leaders of their respective churches – prayed together in the Sistine Chapel nearly 500 years after the Church of England’s split from Rome.

As beautiful music by the Catholic composer Thomas Tallis – who lived through the violent religious conflicts of the 16th century – rang out, the King must have been in heaven. He is a man often moved to tears by music, and this was a moment of spiritual unity at a time when elements

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