🇬🇧 Pope Francis meets with King Philippe and Queen Mathilde of Belgium, and urges the EU nation’s civil authorities to fulfil their mission to build bridges toward peace. | Vatican News

King Philippe and Queen Mathilde of Belgium made a stately entrance at the Vatican, welcomed with a Guard of Honor by the Swiss Guards before their private audience with Pope Leo. Their visit, just days after King Charles and Queen Camilla of the UK met the pontiff, was marked by tradition and ceremony. Queen Mathilde stood out in a white dress, a rare privilege reserved for select Catholic queens and princesses under the custom known as il privilegio del bianco, or the privilege of the white. T