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Pope, King Charles pray together in historic first

Pope Leo XIV during a meeting with Britain's King Charles III and Britain's Queen Camilla in The Vatican. [AFP]

King Charles III, the head of the Church England, became the first British monarch Thursday to pray publicly with a pope in a Vatican service led by Leo XIV.

The ceremony in the Sistine Chapel, broadcast live by the Vatican's official news service, came during a state visit by the 76-year-old monarch and his wife Queen Camilla.

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