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King ‘keen to pursue ecumenical dialogue with pope’ amid Jubilee

ANSA) – ROME, FEB 4 – British tabloids reported Tuesday that preparations are underway for a visit to Italy by King Charles III and Queen Camilla, probably in April, with the monarch and head of the Anglican Church reportedly eager to forge further ecumenical dialogue with Pope Francis in Rome amid the Roman Catholic Holy Year Jubilee celebrations.
Charles, 76, has often voiced his passion for Italy and will probably visit other art cities as well as the capital, the tabloids said.

The king will also reportedly be hoping to wield soft power with Italian officials to help Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s goal of achieving a ‘reset’ of post-Brexit ties with the EU, the tabloids said.
They also said the visit would probably coincide with the monarchs’ 20th wedding anniversary on April 9.
The visit would be Charles’ third foreign trip since last year’s diagnosis of an unspecified tumour which has not kept him out of public life, unlike the cancer struggles of his daughter-in-law Kate.
Last June he made a short foray to the 80th anniversary celebrations of the Allies landings in Normandy, and later in the year he and his wife paid a much longer and more strenuous trip to Australia and Samoa, the venue for the latest Commonwealth summit, which he chaired. (ANSA).