{"id":27446,"date":"2025-04-21T10:07:02","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T10:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/king-charles-and-queen-camilla-have-heavy-hearts-after-popes-death\/"},"modified":"2025-04-21T10:07:02","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T10:07:02","slug":"king-charles-and-queen-camilla-have-heavy-hearts-after-popes-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/king-charles-and-queen-camilla-have-heavy-hearts-after-popes-death\/","title":{"rendered":"King Charles and Queen Camilla have &#8216;heavy hearts&#8217; after Pope&#8217;s death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">King Charles has said he and Queen Camilla were &#8220;deeply saddened&#8221; at the news of Pope Francis&#8217;s death, as they paid tribute to his &#8220;compassion&#8221; and &#8220;tireless commitment&#8221; to people of faith.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The King said in a statement released by Buckingham Palace that their &#8220;heavy hearts&#8221; had been &#8220;somewhat eased&#8221; by the Pope being able to &#8220;share an Easter greeting with the Church and the world he served with such devotion&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The King, alongside Camilla, met the pontiff on a state visit to Italy earlier this month &#8211; one of several he said he remembered with &#8220;particular affection&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The Royal couple had a <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c1drr40xwgro\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 bGFWdi\">private meeting with Pope Francis, where he wished them a happy 20th wedding anniversary<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cn8v2y86gd7o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>King Charles has said he and Queen Camilla were &#8220;deeply saddened&#8221; at the news of Pope Francis&#8217;s death, as they paid tribute to his &#8220;compassion&#8221; and &#8220;tireless commitment&#8221; to people of faith. The King said in a statement released by Buckingham Palace that their &#8220;heavy hearts&#8221; had been &#8220;somewhat eased&#8221; by the Pope being able [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[2863,2569,715,7649,1696,2862,9663,1776],"class_list":["post-27446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk","tag-camilla","tag-charles","tag-death","tag-hearts","tag-heavy","tag-king","tag-popes","tag-queen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27448,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27446\/revisions\/27448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}