{"id":82404,"date":"2025-10-27T17:36:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T16:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/?p=82404"},"modified":"2025-10-27T17:43:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T16:43:17","slug":"the-pope-welcomes-belgian-royalty-king-philippe-and-queen-mathilde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2025\/10\/27\/the-pope-welcomes-belgian-royalty-king-philippe-and-queen-mathilde\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pope welcomes Belgian royalty: King Philippe and Queen Mathilde"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Pope Leo XIV received King Philippe and Queen Mathilde of Belgium in audience at the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican.<br><br>During their meeting, they shared a conversation and exchanged gifts, which of course included a box of Belgian chocolates.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The queen wore a white dress, in keeping with the \u201cprivilege of the white.\u201d This is an honor reserved only for queens and consorts from royal houses of Catholic origin.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This privilege is shared by only seven women, among them the Queen of Spain, the Princess of Monaco, and the Grand Duchess of Luxembourg.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was the second official meeting between the Pontiff and the Belgian monarchs. The first took place after the inaugural Mass of the pontificate in May 2025.<br><br><strong>BAM<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trans. CRT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Leo XIV received King Philippe and Queen Mathilde of Belgium in audience at the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":82400,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/9cpHk1PDSVI","video_descarga":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bpaparebelgioeng.mp4","international_url":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bpaparebelgioint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82404"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82404"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82407,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82404\/revisions\/82407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}