BRITAIN’S KING CHARLES, QUEEN CAMILLA ARRIVE IN ITALY FOR STATE VISIT – Charles and Camilla mark 20th anniversary with photos in Rome
King Charles and his wife Queen Camilla landed at Rome’s Ciampino airport on Monday (April 7) for a 4-day state visit to Italy.
It is the 17th official visit by Charles to Italy and his first overseas trip this year as he continues to undergo treatment for cancer.
It coincides with the 20th wedding anniversary of Charles and Camilla, who married on April 9, 2005. Their wedding took place the day after the funeral of Pope John Paul II, which Charles attended as then heir to the throne.
Charles, who as British king is the supreme governor of the Church of England, had also been due to meet Pope Francis this week, but the meeting was postponed in late March because of concern over the pontiff’s health.
Pope Francis spent five weeks in hospital suffering from double pneumonia and has now returned to the Vatican.
Charles and Camilla are scheduled to meet Italian President Sergio Mattarella on Tuesday and visit the Colosseum.
On Wednesday (April 9) the king and queen will meet Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, after which Charles will deliver a speech to parliament — the first British monarch in history to address a joint parliamentary session in Italy.
On Thursday (April 10), Charles and Camilla travel to Ravenna in the northeastern Emilia-Romagna region to take part in a ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of the city’s liberation from Nazi occupation by Allied forces in World War Two.
