Overview

• Multiple outlets cite palace sources saying the royal couple plan a two-day visit to Vatican City next month.
• It would be their only overseas engagement of the autumn and the monarch’s first encounter with the newly elected pontiff.
• Buckingham Palace has not issued confirmation, with some reports noting a formal invitation may still be pending.
• Charles and Camilla’s April itinerary in Italy dropped most Vatican events, though they held a brief private audience with Pope Francis days before his death.
• Pope Leo XIV, born Robert Prevost and elected in May, recently sent condolences to the Royal Family following the Duchess of Kent’s death.