One of the US politicians investigating the crimes of Jeffrey Epstein speaks to ITV News calling on the Prince to testify before America’s House Oversight Committee, of which he is a member, either in person or virtually, to “clear his name”. https://t.co/tFzL6QVH2m

The King has welcomed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to Windsor Castle, their third meeting of the year. https://t.co/IA8BhE5Qtg

The King gets a new chair which will have a permanent place in the Basilica of St Pauls Outside The Walls for him and his heirs. It was made to mark Charles becoming a ‘confrater’ of this place. “You are already a brother”, he was told.

The Papal Basilica of St. Paul’s Outside the Walls - one of the four great Basilicas of Rome - had a particular link with the English Crown until Henry VII’s Reformation. The King and Queen are inside for a service, in which the King’s a ‘Royal Confrater’ (brother) of the Abbey.

Pope Leo XIV chooses to accompany King Charles and Queen Camilla into the courtyard of the Apostolic Palace, where he bids them farewell, after their historic joint prayer in the Sistene Chapel.

News from the Vatican today, which calls the Pope and King’s joint prayer “an “historic moment in Anglican-Catholic relations”.

Pope Leo and King Charles leave the Sistene Chapel after an ecumenical service - praying together as heads of the Church of England and Catholic Church. Quite a moment for Christians and historians alike. Video: @VaticanNews

Here is the first meeting between King Charles III, Head of State and Supreme Governor of the Church of England, and Pope Leo XIV, Head of State and leader of the world’s Catholics. An historic moment today in the Vatican … @VaticanNews

The King & Queen are currently inside the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican, alongside Pope Francis and the Archbishop of York (the most senior Anglican until the new year). What would Henry VIII make of this? When King and Pope pray together, they end 500 years of acrimony between

NEW: King Charles and Queen Camilla have arrived at the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican for their first meeting with Pope Leo XIV. Later Charles will become the first British monarch to pray together with the Pope in 500 years

Just as the King and Queen arrive at the Vatican to meet Pope Leo XIV, bookmakers @Ladbrokes send me an email saying they have cut the odds from 28/1 to just 16/1 that the UK will vote in a referendum on whether to abolish the monarchy before 2030. Impact of Prince Andrew 😳

Starmer appears to back inquiry into Prince Andrew Royal Lodge arrangements as King Charles and Queen Camilla arrive in Rome (where the Italian press are also talking about the Andrew problem).

So the Prince Andrew problem moves from: 👑 MPs NOT giving their opinions publicly, then 👑 MPs expressing their views publicly (sick of him, get out of my constituency) 👑 Now at PMQs calling for his living arrangements need to be looked into 👇 https://t.co/8EW9SYmTMw

MP for York Central will introduce her backbench bill later that is intended give King Charles the power to remove Prince Andrew’s titles rather than the current situation of them being “inactive”. @RachaelMaskell says she has 11 co-sponsor MPs. Listen out after PMQs

King Charles urged to read Virginia Giuffre's memoir following its release - by the woman who co-wrote the book with his accuser Virginia Giuffre. And there are now politicians saying Andrew be evicted from his Royal Lodge home on which he pays zero rent

New polling just out by @YouGov shows 80% of the public think Prince Andrew should be stripped of his Duke title. At first, you wonder who rhe other 20% are (but 14% are Don’t Knows)