On Thursday, April 3, 2014, His Holiness Pope Francis held an audience with Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh at the Vatican.
According to the Vatican News Agency, today’s meeting with:
“…Pope Francis mark’s the 87-year-old Queen’s fifth encounter with a Roman pontiff here in the Vatican, beginning with Pope Pius XII whom she met in 1951, the year before her accession to the throne.
In 1982, she became the first monarch since the Reformation to welcome a pope to Britain during John Paul II’s pastoral visit to the country and in 2010 she also hosted Pope Benedict XVI on his state visit to the United Kingdom.”
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On Thursday, April 3, 2014, His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales arrived at St. Bartholomew the Great Church in London to attend a service and reception in celebrate of the presentation of the Royal Charter to the Worshipful Company of Hackney Carriage Drivers.
On April 2, 2014, Their Imperial Majesties Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko of Japan accompanied by His Imperial Highness Crown Prince Naruhito of Japan visited the Meiji Jingu Shrine in Tokyo.
On Wednesday, April 2, 2014, Their Royal Highnesses The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall continued their two-day visit to Northern Ireland.
This morning the royal couple visited the “…Palace Barracks in Holywood, Co Down…” and presented “…OBEs and MBEs honors to locals at Hillsborough Castle…” according to UTV and the BBC News.
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On Wednesday, April 2, 2014, Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal visited the “…South West Herts Youth and Community Narrowboat Project in Old Bridge Road to see the work of the volunteers who have maintained the narrowboats…” according to the newspaper, Watford Observer.
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On April 2, 2014, His Royal Highness Crown Prince Haakon of Norway arrived at the Thor Heyerdahl Videregående Skole (high school) in Larvik to participate in Global Dignity Day.
On Wednesday, April 2, 2014, Her Royal Highness Princess Marie of Denmark, as Patron of the National Association Against Autism, participated in the Løb til Fordel for Voksne med Autisme (Run for Adults with Autism).
According to the Danish royal court, the purpose of today’s important event is to “…awareness of support, help and guidance for adults with Autism.”
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