{"id":1054,"date":"2014-02-04T14:31:42","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T14:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=1054"},"modified":"2014-02-04T14:31:42","modified_gmt":"2014-02-04T14:31:42","slug":"queen-to-meet-pope-in-first-vatican-trip-in-over-30-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/queen-to-meet-pope-in-first-vatican-trip-in-over-30-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen to meet Pope in first Vatican trip in over 30 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Queen.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1055\" alt=\"Queen\" src=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Queen-300x253.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Queen-300x253.jpg 300w, https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Queen.jpg 377w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Queen Elizabeth will meet Pope Francis during a visit to Rome in April, her first trip to the Vatican in over 30 years.<br \/>\nThe Queen, 87, accompanied by her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, 92, will visit Rome on April 3, as guests of the Italian President Giorgio Napolitano, Buckingham Palace said on Tuesday.<br \/>\nElizabeth, the head of the Church of England, has officially visited the Vatican twice during her reign: in 1961 when she met Pope John XXIII and in 1980 when she met John Paul II.<br \/>\nThe Argentine-born Francis was elected to the papacy last March.<br \/>\nThe latest trip was announced just a day after the palace confirmed the Queen will make a state visit to France to mark the 70th anniversary of the World War Two Normandy landings on June 5-7.<br \/>\nThe monarch, who celebrated 60 years on the throne in 2012, has been scaling down long-haul trips in recent years, ceding a greater role to her eldest son, heir-to-the throne Prince Charles.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/queen-to-meet-pope-in-first-vatican-trip-in-over-30-years\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Queen Elizabeth will meet Pope Francis during a visit to Rome in April, her first trip to the Vatican in over 30 years. The Queen, 87, accompanied by her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, 92, will visit Rome on April 3, as guests of the Italian President Giorgio Napolitano, Buckingham Palace said on Tuesday. Elizabeth, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,9],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1056,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054\/revisions\/1056"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}