Pope Francis will receive King Carlos III of England

Pope Francis is expected to receive King Carlos III from England and his wife Camila at a private audience in the Vatican scheduled for April 8.

Although the Vatican has not officially announced the meeting, Buckingham Palace confirmed it in a press release released on Tuesday, although everything will depend on the health of the Holy Father, who carries hospitalized more than a month in the Gemelli Polyclinic for bilateral pneumonia.

This visit is part of an official trip that the monarch will make from 7 to 10 next month to Italy. During these days, he will also meet with the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, and with Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni.

In the last update on his state of health, the Vatican reported that the clinical conditions of Pope Francis continue to be stable and that the improvements have allowed, at specific times of the day, to breathe without help.

Also, last Sunday the Vatican shared the first photo of Pope Francis at the Gemelli Hospital since his entry on February 14.

Although doctors withdrew the forecast reserved last week and the pontiff is no longer in “imminent danger”, a date for their hospital is not yet estimated and his return to the Vatican.

It should be noted that Coronation of King Carlos III of England in the Abbey of Westminster de London (England) in May 2023, he told, for the first time since the time of the Anglican reform, with two representatives of the Pope and the Holy See.

The ceremony was attended by Pope Francis, the Secretary of State of the Vatican, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, and Mons. Miguel Maury Buendía, Apostolic Nuncio in Great Britain, as representative of the Holy See.

Likewise, as “an ecumenical gesture,” Pope Francis donated for the coronation of Carlos III two fragments of the cross in which, according to tradition, Jesus Christ was crucified. Since his arrival on the throne, the pontiff and the monarch have not officially met.