Overview
- The Vatican detailed a timed itinerary that includes a 10:45 a.m. arrival at the Arco delle Campane and an 11:00 a.m. audience in the Apostolic Palace Library.
- At 11:45 a.m., King Charles will meet Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin while Queen Camilla visits the Pauline Chapel, according to the Vatican spokesman.
- A 12:10 p.m. prayer for the care of creation in the Sistine Chapel will be led by Pope Leone XIV and Archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell with participation from the royal and papal choirs.
- An environmental meeting with figures engaged in care for the common home is scheduled for 12:45 p.m. in the Sala Regia, as outlined by Vatican officials.
- At 2:45 p.m., King Charles will receive an ad personam honorary distinction at the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls, and press reports note the joint prayer is being described as the first by a British monarch with a pope in roughly 500 years.